SKIP THE FIRST 38 SECONDS
Goodfellas is thought to be the greatest film ever Directed
by Martin Scorsese.
The sequence opens with a very creative title sequence;
which shows the credits moving in sync to the sound bridge of vehicles. Scorsese
merges both none diegetic, and diegetic sounds into this sequence, to add
intrigue from the outset and to entice the viewer to question the art,
questions like where the sounds are coming from?, and why did the director
choose that moment to begin the film? Scorsese links both sections of this sequence
by doing so. From this aspect of the sequence, it is shown that the film is
fast paced and well-constructed. Which is very important for the audience to
learn whether a film is worth watching.
The last 10 seconds of this clip also uses sound effectively
over lapping narration and none diegetic sound, made even more effective by the
shot selection. This sequence is where Henry Hill says ‘as far back as I can
remember I’ve always wanted to be a gangster’, on the end of that sentence the
camera zooms in to almost make the audience take a look into Hill’s life, on
the back of the sentence, the music begins marking that moment as an important
one. The music played captures the age of the film, building up to at the
climactic moment where Hill stars into the distance.
This sequence is extremely ambiguous towards the end,
because the music paints the brutal murder as something to be celebrated. From this
clip I would assume the genre of the film as being an action with a hint of
comedy due to the sound.
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