goodfellas

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what the FUCK

wait waht?

well . . . i just learned something

The oil of the two dogs was painted by Nicholas Pileggi’s mother, and is based on a photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. Pileggi was the author of Wise Guy, a treatment of the life of gangster Henry Hill, on which GoodFellas is based.

This may have been common knowledge but I wasn't aware. Whaddya want from me?

At first I thought someone v v painstakingly recreated the painting but I was like wait a second . . . and then the internet came through.

The oil of the two dogs was painted by Nicholas Pileggi's mother, and is based on a photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. Pileggi was the author of Wise Guy, a treatment of the life of gangster Henry Hill, on which Good Fellas is based. As chance would have it, Pileggi was present in 2006 when friend and casino developer Steve Wynn accidentally stuck his elbow through Le Rêve, a Picasso painting that Wynn was about to sell to hedge funder Steve Cohen for $139 million.

http://cherylbernstein.blogspot.com/2008/10/one-dog-goes-one-way-and-other-goes.html

btw this is blowing my mind a little bit

what do you want from me?

Looks like somebody we know.

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs455.snc4/50504_285901334226_940927_n.jpg

lol @ nose icicle

Carbone's hair was always awful.

no way

i still don't get why they froze a *friend* to death. is it explained in the book? i mean.. sheesh.

Jimmy did it himself. Paranoid that everyone involved would start singing. He was a psychopath who made the assumption that the more gruesome the death, the louder the signal would be.

mm i thought maybe he could have just ended up in the garbage though, with those others or gunned down or whatever. at least Morrie went quickly. frozen to death is so grim, possibly worse than the baseball bat method in Casino. it's debatable i guess!

freezing to death is like going to sleep, right? sure in this case it was like going to sleep while suspended on meathooks but hey what do you want from me?

lol

I thought he was shot AND THEN frozen.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3387/screenshot20110119at127.png

yeah i doubt he was frozen to death, just killed and then frozen

http://www.komplettblog.ie/wp-content/uploads/Val_Kilmer_011.jpg

mm i always hoped he was killed them frozen for his sake but why bother freezing him afterwards?

to send a freaking message man!!!!!!!

lol xpost because it's badass

frozen = no smell.

not that i've thought about these things just something i heard once...

that would make sense

It took a long time for him to thaw out too. Any fresh evidence would be gone by then.

Didn't stop him with the other victims, but just sayin'.

Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy!

u guys shoulda voted in this poll ~ BAMBOO LOUNGE ~ roll call, roll call

DeNiro never gets enough credit for knocking that phone booth over.

im usually too distracted by his inability to cry in that scene

mm that and the random guy walking past in the background.

this "guy was frozen to death" theory is like some sub-"sleep! that's where I'm a viking" level nonsense

When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

my father has carbone hair.

its utterly amazing.

Make that coffee to go.

Oh man, finally getting to the end of this (after watching the first 90 mins on Netflix week before last) and Councilman Sheeeee-it from The Wire is the doc at the hospital when Henry Hill is picking up Kevin Corrigan!

http://i.imgur.com/C61JV.jpg

That rules.

btw The fact that the dog painting is based on a real photograph is one of my favorite things I learned in a long while so thank you for that PP.

love the freeze frames

love the brief half a second shot of the car springs releasing as the fat guy gets out at the beginning

CREAM feat.e.clapton

http://i.imgur.com/TOAAt.jpg

I want these glasses!

corey do you like this movie

ray liotta looks like jude law, or jude law looks like ray liotta, must be that eyeliner

ACTORS BE BEIN ACTIN shockah

idk it's that glint in ray's eye, saw the same in jude's in A.I., conniving slick con gaze

lol "layla" came on the radio today and the first thing i thought was "by the time they found carbone in the meat truck..."

I heard a dirgey, New-Orleans style "Layla" done by Clapton and Wynton Marsalis on the radio today; I didn't think of Goodfellas.