Why Goodfellas Left Out 1 Key Real Life Gangster
Goodfellas is based on a true story and most of its characters are also based on real-life gangsters, but it left out one key gangster who was connected to the main characters in Goodfellas, and is even said to be responsible for the death of one of them. Although Martin Scorsese has explored different genres throughout his career as a filmmaker, he’s best known for his gangster movies, and the one widely regarded as his best is the 1990 movie Goodfellas, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi.
Goodfellas tells the story of mob associate Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his days as a teenager running errands for Paul Cicero (Paul Sorvino) and his crew to his full involvement with the Lucchese crime family and later his decision to turn against his crew and become an FBI informant. Through Henry, the audience meets some of the biggest names in the mob, such as Jimmy “The Gent” Conway (Robert De Niro), and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), and many others are either briefly featured or casually mentioned – however, Goodfellas left out one important gangster with connections to Paulie’s crew.
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The “Five Families” is the organization of the five major crime families of the Italian American Mafia in New York, and two of them appear in Goodfellas: the aforementioned Lucchese family and the Gambino crew, mostly represented through Billy Batts. It’s through the Gambino family that the characters in Goodfellas had a connection with none other than John Gotti, the boss of this organization who was involved in the Lufthansa Heist and is believed to be linked to the disappearance of Tommy DeSimone (DeVito in Goodfellas), but he wasn’t included in the movie, most
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