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Boogie Nights… Goodfellas ripoff
Posted on 2/24/16 at 3:56 am
Posted on 2/24/16 at 3:56 am
Was watching Boogie Nights and it hit me that it's a total Goodfellas ripoff. Look, I think Boogie Nights is easily one of the 10 best movies of the last 20 yrs, but if you want to call it an homage, fine but there's many aspects that scream Goodfellas.
1. Camera movement and fast zooms. Almost identical cinematography
2. Similar time period. Yeah I know Goodfellas starts on the 50s, but the bulk of the movie takes place in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Boogie Nights is all 70s and 80s. But both are total period pieces that exploit roughly the same point in time with clothes, music, houses, etc. All add to the atmosphere and overall tone of the movies and are basically a character on it's own.
3. Almost exact same story arc.
Young, poor kid gets involved in a shady industry with wild and crazy exploits and characters all while making huge sums of money. Ultimately, drug addiction, excess, and paranoia lead to huge downfall.
4. Seemingly fun, entertaining, movie on the outside is actually a dark cautionary tale at it's core. "You want this life, this is what happens."
I guess it's because I saw Goodfellas a week ago and I couldn't get it out of my head while watching. Both are fantastic films…
1. Camera movement and fast zooms. Almost identical cinematography
2. Similar time period. Yeah I know Goodfellas starts on the 50s, but the bulk of the movie takes place in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Boogie Nights is all 70s and 80s. But both are total period pieces that exploit roughly the same point in time with clothes, music, houses, etc. All add to the atmosphere and overall tone of the movies and are basically a character on it's own.
3. Almost exact same story arc.
Young, poor kid gets involved in a shady industry with wild and crazy exploits and characters all while making huge sums of money. Ultimately, drug addiction, excess, and paranoia lead to huge downfall.
4. Seemingly fun, entertaining, movie on the outside is actually a dark cautionary tale at it's core. "You want this life, this is what happens."
I guess it's because I saw Goodfellas a week ago and I couldn't get it out of my head while watching. Both are fantastic films…
This post was edited on 2/24/16 at 4:07 am
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:36 am to Tic44
I wish they made more Goodfellas knock offs.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 8:38 am to Jack Ruby
Hey Spida, where's my fricking drink?
Posted on 2/24/16 at 9:17 am to Jack Ruby
quote:
1. Camera movement and fast zooms. Almost identical cinematography
Here's PTA's response to that comparison.
quote:
3. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese) (1990)
The long travelling shot into the Copacabana...some stuff I did in Boogie Nights is compared a lot to that shot, which I obviously admire. But the funny thing is there have been so many shots like that. You can trace that back to Max Ophuls, doing these intricately long things, and obviously to what DePalma has done, but Scorsese was doing it first (of the modern directors). What's obnoxious and so fricking brilliant about Scorsese is that he does these pretentious, insane camera moves that suddenly make perfect sense, and has this incredible forceful energy, but he's never showing off. He's the biggest show-off in the world and we don't even see it."
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Posted on 2/24/16 at 10:23 am to Jack Ruby
I wish I could give you more downvotes
Posted on 2/24/16 at 10:29 am to Jack Ruby
Dirk diggler wasn't making huge sums of money...some of the characters lived with Jack...Dirk's big show-off is he brought a muscle car and has an apartment with a bedroom... Wow.
He was two porn films away to being back on the streets.
He was two porn films away to being back on the streets.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 10:44 am to Jack Ruby
So some mutual elements of cinematography and a few basic plot points and you say ripoff?
Wow. Fail.
Wow. Fail.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 10:59 am to Jack Ruby
Going by your definition, both are ripoffs of the story of Icarus
Posted on 2/24/16 at 12:01 pm to Jack Ruby
And the iconic voice over narration... oh wait.
I don't see how this description applies to Goodfellas:
It was pretty dark from the outset..
I also don't see Goodfellas as a huge period piece. Not like Boogie Nights, which goes so far as a blank screen to introduce the 1980's.
I don't see how this description applies to Goodfellas:
quote:
4. Seemingly fun, entertaining, movie on the outside is actually a dark cautionary tale at it's core. "You want this life, this is what happens."
It was pretty dark from the outset..
I also don't see Goodfellas as a huge period piece. Not like Boogie Nights, which goes so far as a blank screen to introduce the 1980's.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 12:41 pm to Jack Ruby
Now go home and get your fukking shine box
Posted on 2/24/16 at 1:31 pm to Jack Ruby
Aside from being completely different stories about completely different subjects, it's essentially the same movie
Posted on 2/24/16 at 2:49 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Boogie Nights is a loose John Holmes biopic...But if any one who hasn't seen Wonderland about John Holmes and the Wonderland murders with Val Kilmer...do yourself a favor , good movie.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 3:55 pm to Marciano1
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Boogie Nights was better
You're a funny guy.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 4:41 pm to cjared036
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I wish they made more Goodfellas knock offs.
Check out A Bronx Tale. That is a Goodfellas knock off and a damn good movie.
Posted on 2/24/16 at 6:58 pm to Jack Ruby
You dont like butter in your arse and lolipops in your mouth?
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