Goodfellas

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GoodFellas
This film is based on the life of a poor Irish-Italian named Henry Hill and starts off in New York City in the 1950’s. Hill is a young kid, who through the movie, grows up, and rises through ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood’s organized crime branch. This organized crime family has Henry and his family living the good life with his profits from their criminal activity. Henry moved up the ranks, and eventually got pinched for a lot of things. He was forced to testify against his former partners and ends up in the FBI’s witness protection program with his family.
In his teenage years, Henry starts working in a local hangout for members of organized crime. At first, Henry is parking cars and doing little odd jobs for the wise guys. After a few years, things started to escalate into more involvement for Henry. He started doing things like running messages, torching cars, and to selling stolen cigarettes. Most of his activity could be classified as misdemeanors. Henry ends up getting arrested, and after he is lightly punished by the court, he earns much trust and respect from the neighborhood’s organized crime branch, because he didn’t rat anyone out. This starts him off on his life of crime. In his early 20’s, Henry hooks up with his partners Tommy and Jimmy. Together, they set up different jobs in ordered to improve their financial gain, social status, and more importantly respect from other individuals involved in organized crime. The three ran jobs like robbing cargo trucks filled with goods from fur coats, to cigarettes, and even liq!
uor. These stolen goods are sold illegally on the black market for a fraction of the original cost. These criminal activities start to enhance with police payoffs, and crimes are never investigated. Henry ended up getting arrested for dealing drugs, among other things. Henry decided to rat out all of the other people that he was partners with.
This majority of the movie took p...