re: Boogie Nights… Goodfellas ripoff

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1. Camera movement and fast zooms. Almost identical cinematography

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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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