GoodFellas Tommy DeVito "Funny How?"
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Published 2011-04-27
Goodfellas (also styled GoodFellas) is an Academy Award winning 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of three gangsters over the decades of the '50s, '60s, '70s, and 1980.
Henry Hill: You're a pistol, you're really funny. You're really funny.
Tommy DeVito: What do you mean I'm funny?
Henry Hill: It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy.
Tommy DeVito: what do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What?
Henry Hill: It's just, you know. You're just funny, it's... funny, the way you tell the story and everything.
Tommy DeVito: Funny how? What's funny about it?
Anthony Stabile: Tommy no, You got it all wrong.
Tommy DeVito: Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?
Henry Hill: Jus...
Tommy DeVito: What?
Henry Hill: Just... ya know... you're funny.
Tommy DeVito: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Henry Hill: Just... you know, how you tell the story, what?
Tommy DeVito: No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!
Henry Hill: [long pause] Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito: [everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
All Comments (21)
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I heard that after this scene, Scorcese went up to Joe Pesci and told him "Nice, but that was kind of scary." and Joe Pesci replied: "Scary how?"
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“Whoa, whoa, Anthony. He’s a big boy he knows what he said.” The whole scene is absolute perfection.
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How Pesci stops mid sentence...."wtf are you looking at " kills me every time 😂
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Michael Franzese said Joe Pesci is by far the most accurate portrayal of a mobster/wise guy he's ever seen, and that he's seen ton like him in real life. I buy it 100%.
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If you meet someone like this in real life, RUN.
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"Let me get this straight, you think I'm funny?" "I do, and I'm tired of pretending you're not"
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This scene is so brilliant.. I think Ray Liotta's performance is what really ramps up the tension. His laughing the entire time seems so forced and unnatural, from the very beginning of the scene you get the sense that something is just off. He was a very gifted actor, IMO his decision to overact this scene was very deliberate. In a way, he looks like he's being held at gunpoint (no pun intended). They're all sitting around laughing while Tommy is holding court and telling stories, typically you would expect the people in the party to look relaxed and carefree. Liotta's performance is what clues us in from the beginning that everything is not as it seems. In a way, Tommy is holding the entire group hostage emotionally. They all know he is prone to switch to extreme violence on a dime, and so the over-the-top laughing reads as a desperate attempt to placate to him. Man. They just don't make movies like this anymore. This is art.
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I remember as a kid this scene made me hold my breathe, I kinda felt like I've been in that situation somehow around my parents friends... even as an adult watching this feels uneasy and full of uncomfortable anxiety lol. What a legend.
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I love the over the top forced laughter. The underlying fear they all have for this guy. Great scene.
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The way Ray Liotta laughs after he realises Tommy was winding him up - the sheer relief the character tries but doesn't quite manage to hide - is an acting masterclass. RIP.
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He should have said that you’re funny in the way that you don’t have the makings of a varsity athlete .
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the lighting, the camera work, the dialogue, the characters, the acting. It's art. Perfection
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Tommy predicted it, ''I wonder about you sometimes Henry, you may fold under questioning''.
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Just came back to this masterpiece after Ray Liotta passing. Rest In Peace, Goodfella.
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This scene is so insanely legendary in cinema history, what a masterpiece.And WTF is that Liotta's laugh? So great.
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Liotta's best acting during this scene was when he didnt say a single word. At the 3:02 mark the way he changed from laughing to completey serious when the owner told Pesci that hes got an outstanding bill of $7,000. He knew publicly humiliating Tommy like this was going to come with serious consequences. Which it did.
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I’ve watched this hundreds of times yet I still get nervous when he gets serious. Amazing scene
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Ray Liotta's laughing face is hilarious
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The best 4 minute movie clip when I was 10. Now I’m 44 and it still is!
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Goodbye Ray...the greatest smile. He could be a good guy or villain. So versatile. And that smile could be menacing. Gone too young.
