Martin Scorsese on Robert De Niro's Death Stare scene in Goodfellas

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[@MrMattnis1]

Bob dezero isaloser

[@joppaz1988]

That’s why Scorsese is a genius

[@jimbyrdiii1503]

Does this mean Martin Scorsese and I BOTH enjoy listening to Cream?🎶 Did we just become best friends?! 🤟😜

[@angeloleuzzi493]

​@@jimbyrdiii1503😅😊😅😅😊

[@JTFSIX]

FUCK it is truly crazy the brilliance of this man...he synced the riff to his eyes FUUAAAARRRRK!!!!!!

[@mrjoe27]

Came here to say this

[@lamb3134]

Imagine have a genius like that working on your music video.

[@donpietruk1517]

The fact that Goodfellas lost Best Picture to Driving Miss Daisy is one of the all time Oscar travesties.

[@garysimmons3166]

You keep Miss Daisy's name out your F'N mouth!

[@donpietruk1517]

@Tyson Graham Your right. Driving Miss Daisy was the year before my bad. Goodfellas is still the better film.

[@killerb720]

Really? Holy shit 😂 . Thanks for the chuckle. Goodfellas is a timeless movie. I barely remember DMD

[@shanedenny5234]

​@@donpietruk1517 Jessica Tandy did although win a Best Actress Oscar as well. 👍

[@donpietruk1517]

@@shanedenny5234 Yes I don't deny that her performance is great. I was also mistaken on my time frame here. Driving Miss Daisy won the year before. (my memory isn't what it used to be, gotta remember to check Goggle more often on time frames 🤣). Goodfellas actually lost out to Dances With Wolves that year. Goodfellas is still a better movie than either of them.

[@KatesFree]

Scorsese puts the best music in his movies. He really understands how to use it.

[@hansiesma16]

Tarantino too.

[@jamesoblivion]

Fincher, too. I think he learned it from watching Scorsese. Especially Hurdy Gurdy Man in Zodiac. Took me back to the Billy Batts beatdown scene, where Atlantis is playing on the jukebox. Only two directors I've ever seen take a mellow Donovan song, and use it to underscore horrific violence, to such great effect.

[@susanrike7476]

Scorsese is brilliant. What I love about his films is the unique integration of iconic rock songs into key scenes. A master at work!

[@joshhumphries8299]

It's a great mash up, Scorcese's using classic rock tracks in his film. Honestly though, it always makes me think of Scorcese only - it never feels like his characters would ever listen to that type of music. They always seem like they'd want Manilow or Neil Diamond as their soundtrack

[@jameshendershot4234]

@@joshhumphries8299 more like Sinatra or Dean Martin

[@cjmaclelan9243]

He undid 30 years of anti smoking adds in 30 secondd

[@lesaanngaddess]

Anyone compelled to start smoking because of a movie is already weak-minded.

[@cjmaclelan9243]

@@lesaanngaddess ur weak bodies get ur weight up

[@bsdpowa]

😂😂😂

[@bsdpowa]

@@lesaanngaddessmuch like copying anything people see in the movies, or generally on TV or social media or from another person… you just described 100% of the population, it must be special in your head 😂😂😂

[@bilboswaggens2975]

@@lesaanngaddess I have an oral fixation. Blame ya mother

[@stephensimington479]

They renamed this clip 8 times to get me to watch it. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[@rbu2136]

Lol. Me too. Great clip. And this guy has a great voice.

[@phatheffer3439]

I'm personally not fond of the blacks.

[@georgepoggington4896]

@@phatheffer3439 🧢

[@mcooper2505]

d'Nero is such a frighteningly good actor

[@JuanPeron007]

Obviously, because in real life he was always a Snowflake

[@cinquedark5ivekamau800]

​@@JuanPeron007 awww somebody's offended by his political affiliation... 😢

[@Nigelblau]

@@JuanPeron007 Trump sucks balls

[@joe3USA]

Leftist Loser

[@louisjackson9989]

Alex Baldwin does a great DiNero Goodfellas take on a SNL skit!👀👌😆😆😆!

[@timmckeown1313]

De Niro looked demonic in that scene.

[@jocoder-williams4306]

Brilliant

[@durrclips746]

Just his natural demeanor

[@edburnside4911]

He's supposed to

[@tj4pirates]

Yes. That's what's frightening about that scene.

[@baberRuth]

Get him going on Trump

[@Llamakazi45]

He sounds like Alan Alda.

[@albiidrizi9745]

Who is that guy that’s not Scorcese?

[@PronatorTendon]

​@@albiidrizi9745 Nick Pileggi

[@rosalyndnovigrod1076]

@llamakazi45 I can’t unhear that now

[@trueblue4069]

Mash

[@Floridaman8783]

Came here to say the same thing

[@josejuancerdabarraza3544]

There's something about Playing sixties rock on violent scenes as in some of Scorsese films with the rolling stones and cream, like opposites, the pacifist hippie songs and the violence in the subcontext

[@DA-Red-Panda1]

That's God given talent; being able to construct this type of art in a flim.

[@bbtbbbbtbb3166]

Lol God of movies. Would smell like a wet popcorn fart.

[@fast1nakus]

Yes, Father Zeus did him a huge favour.

[@D.E.Kalaed-pg2cl]

He's literally seeing the scene in his head as it develops and taking notes of what he sees and hears. That's how you create.

[@joannrotenberry5855]

Marty is the best…love all his work!

[@christineyeigh2217]

That's what happens when you have a great actor and a great director that scene was mystifying. I saw this movie a long time ago never forget that stare

[@v4v819]

Admit it... It's nothing without the music!

[@paulharvey1947]

The look away Bob does, then the wink of his right eye as he looks back at the camera with wide eyes. You could almost see the area around him get brighter as the 'idea' lightbulb could have appeared above him. His idea? I'll just kill them all and I'm starting with him.

[@powermiller855]

That shot was so iconic and I loved the song choice too

[@rho008]

No other actor have that kind of intensity in their eyes other than Robert De Niro. The closest I've seen is James Gandolfini.

[@vrbvrb9407]

Oh you mean you didn't see Indian Actors 🙄

[@CheekyCewn]

That same look he uses in every and any roll.

[@jasonfunk3650]

Gandolfini has a range that sissy deniro has only one character

[@matthewerwin4677]

Sam Jackson

[@SnapsZGaming]

Pacino in godfather when Kate tells him about the abortion or when he learns Fredonia betrayed him

[@elizabethbarnes7877]

love that scene, I always watch RD's eyes when he's on screen whether he's speaking of not.

[@antrimlariot2386]

Scorsese did another great bar scene with De Niro. Their first. When he comes in to the bar in slo-mo as Johnny Boy in Mean Streets and the Stones are on.

[@scatterthewinds3126]

the best scene in a movie full of great scenes.

[@qadeer181]

Which movie was it ?

[@岡山大木]

I love Goodfellas so much, to me it really is the absolute perfect movie. It’s so hard for me to pick a favourite scene. Just a few of the greats are Henry and Karen entering the club through the kitchen, the lighting and dialogue in the grave digging scene, the scene were Tommy kills Billy, but you might just be right about this one being the best. It’s so simple and subtle but the music, the zoom and DeNiro’s incredible performance. It’s just fine art scene after scene!

[@beastiebear7231]

Fantastic shot. Today we would have to have a 20 minute exposition dump explaining that he is going to kill him

[@winterous]

Marty lifted it from The Searchers. John Wayne looking at the crazy white girl, and you know when he finds his niece, he intends to kill her.

[@Daniel58bjuyghbn37]

Watch Alfred Hitchcock movies. He was the first to do that shot.

[@StevenWorkman]

Much like the typist, I can't believe Sorcese could come up with a music idea while watching the rushes. I thought he had to have a specific time when he could only think about music and only then could he do it. Must be intuitive.

[@paulsowney771]

Bob and Marty !!! They must have a close relationship!!

[@Stephensorrentino]

True artistry. There is only one Martin Scorsese. #Gosunny

[@Nickeric314]

He was looking at Maury...not Manny.

[@sean68mtown]

“Maury’s wigs…don’t come off…”

[@nickcellino1503]

Is "Manny" the character Morris Kessler played by Chuck Low?

[@dougalmacrobbie1918]

Morrie

[@JackTenrec-qk4zp]

Morrie

[@romilrh]

One of the most badass shots in all of Scorcese's filmography

[@tiffsaver]

Marty's musical intuition is every bit as amazing as his film skills... from another planet!!

[@ces4399]

The real Jimmy the Gent did give a similar death stare to his intended victims

[@warriorhudson2594]

How do you know, were you there?!!

[@SonnyGTA]

He does such a great Alan Alda impression!

[@stanphillips7277]

Goodfellas is a true masterpiece. It's the kind of work that you can revisit countless times and, notice different things; details that you missed before such as this one. Scorsese uses The Stones multiple times but, Cream fit that scene perfectly!🎬

[@nathanwanner..44]

Bob is one of the best actors ever

[@JuanPeron007]

Yep, good actor, because in real life he was a Snowflake

[@no1computerrepairguy]

​@@JuanPeron007Agreed, the guy doesn't live in reality. Wanker in real life.

[@righthandwolf306]

There are a few directors that have that gift of using music to heighten the scene. Francis Ford Coppola had flashes of genius like that in _Apocalypse Now._ All these years later, whenever I hear "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, I see Lance water skiing behind that patrol boat. The helicopter attack sequence featuring "Ride of the Valkyries" also comes to mind. My all time favorite by Scorsese was Tom Cruise showing off in the pool hall while "Werewolves of London" was playing in _The Color of Money,_ followed by Billy Batts getting stomped while Donovan's song about Atlantis was playing in _GoodFellas._

[@MaryJane-qm3ld]

"And his hair was perfect"

[@alastairballantyne7789]

One of the greatest pieces of acting, wordless but you know exactly what he's thinking.

[@SuperBobby1967]

Great scene. Good Fellas was a masterpiece.

[@joanndenning8977]

You can’t teach that at any school !! What a beautiful God given gift for Scorsese!!! Bravo 👏👏💋😎🌹

[@MrAlex5378]

Best scene and shot in that film.

[@carolehancock931]

Best film ever made. Nothing else comparable.

[@dominickmilano4858]

The Godfather!!!

[@carolehancock931]

Sorry to disagree.

[@Chebab-Chebab]

"It's all intuitive." I like that. I think I'll use it.

[@Light_Within]

Damn that Bob DeNiro was fiiiinne

[@Rytoast99]

Possibly one of the coolest scenes in an all time great movie. That scene set antismoking ads back a decade

[@quinmelquin]

Phenomenal scene. The exact perfect Music makes a scene stand out.

[@casandrabullock9497]

That was a great scene and choosing that music made it all the more ominous and awesome!

[@TedAlexandro]

Guys are great at immortalizing their friends

[@andrewstricklin182]

I've said for years that this was my favorite scene out of any movie, it's just perfect, everything about it.

[@camillegeraghty3687]

The scene and music is sublime!!!

[@Bloquita5]

That smirk and that look from Robert De Niro…Wow!!!

[@paleface1979]

One of my favourite scenes in a film of all time, I have watched it 100s of times

[@poopagore]

must be nice to be a director that can use any music he wants

[@v4v819]

He does have to obtain and pay copyrights to use it in the film! His film's must be a copyright lawyer's wet dream and a producer's living hell...

[@marclewinstein7639]

And he didn't do it for Mean Streets, which is how Phil Spector almost destroyed Scorcese and DeNiro's careers.

[@v4v819]

@@marclewinstein7639 Tell us that story!

[@özgeall]

@@marclewinstein7639i couldn’t find something like that

[@johnwilson8825]

Amazing scene... Brilliant actor.. Brilliant film!!

[@stanleymalcolm9799]

This film as got to go into the top 10 best movies ever and playing Eric Clapton amazing

[@johnjohn-ne8fw]

First time I saw the movie that scene really stood out for me

[@hugonongbri8100]

Scorsese always killed it with the music in his films. He has excellent taste 😎👍

[@tonyaangell7877]

Beyond fantastic scene. You can see the wheels turning behind his eyes. ❤

[@ryanknight2059]

That’s my favorite scene ever !🥅

[@mybestfriendisamonkey173]

As if he couldn't look menacing enough! Awesome scene!! Marty & Bobby I Love you guys.

[@thekansasjayhawk3504]

Genius! Absolutely beautiful.

[@MarkOrumOrumsForum]

Genius.

[@Zumpage]

That tune " sunshine of your love" adds so much to the scene

[@J.Lee-xv6wb]

DeNiro is one of the best actors to ever live. Legend.

[@joe3USA]

Went Woke, now he's a joke

[@J.Lee-xv6wb]

@@joe3USA woke does not exist to me, nor does anyone that say they follow it. Any so called woke ppl that may argue with me or worse will get exactly what they don't want.

[@brucebalsillie8451]

I thought the same. One of those scenes that are absolutely brilliant and simple.

[@Flantabulous]

When I'm pissed of at anyone I still Try this look! 🤣

[@randallw1977]

Those eyes and that smile. *Shiver.

[@rbdriftin]

AI can’t have intuition and creativity like this

[@prathameshbhambure]

One of the greatest scenes ever!

[@mikekock927]

Amazing acting by deniro without saying a word

[@MM-zy6sq]

It was one of the best parts of that movie i thought . Loved it Bravo Scorcese

[@haloed-hero]

That is master director knowing, trusting and giving his actor creative freedom to let the scene be what it’s going to be with the confines of the script. And in those confine ladies and gentlemen is where the magic of cinema manifest itself.

[@mikekmw]

Because he’s a freakin genius at his craft

[@brandonmaddox4862]

Great fucking shot

[@robertkelly6282]

One of the great rock songs ever

[@ActionHero29]

Yeah DeNiro really killed it in this role

[@lisavillano8710]

Music absolutely makes the scene....

[@024pMzA]

Such a memorable scene....he says nothing but you know everything

[@leandrolej]

God, i love that scene

[@wtls000]

Whatever you do, definitely don’t show us enough of the actual scene

[@deplorableaussie6749]

Mauries wigs don't come off !

[@361MichaelS20]

In hurricane winds

[@361MichaelS20]

In hurricane winds

[@monkeyboy007007]

Even under the water!

[@samkun3297]

It's a hairpiece, 😆

[@josephsolomon8623]

Oh it was incredible amazing a perfect song for that scene

[@annelikindlund9183]

Best actor

[@larry6795]

Bob is the man 👏🏽

[@JuanPeron007]

More like "The Snowflake"

[@sueq144]

Creativity! I love how he had it pictured in his head.

[@Balouthegreat]

I’ve always loved how he uses music in his films, Tarantino is a lot like him in that he writes a scene and builds off if it with the music, and the fact that he makes it work so well, there’s lots of iconic scenes that you definitely remember the music because it was made with it in mind.

[@Max-po5sx]

Everybody that knows Robert De Niro always calls him Bob but I guess I'll never know him so I will continue to call him Robert 😞😞😞

[@JuanPeron007]

Why would you want to. He is a big Snowflake

[@rhondacox3519]

I love you Robert De Niro❤️💛💙💚

[@bigfern62]

It's when the eye brows go up wit the smirk that make it treacherous...

[@rw1557]

One of the best scenes ever in film

[@adamperre4852]

That's why Deniro is one of the best actors going around

[@blairdelnero2762]

It's the drums it's like adrenalin in your temples

[@ministeroftruth5247]

A person for whom the description of genius is not hyperbole.

[@aaronbenns9051]

Its great when the right song is put in a movie in the right moment its real movie majic

[@louisecharles8170]

Greatest actor

[@carolbenson6524]

Best scene ever😮

[@michaelamery4547]

the best director and actor combination there is

[@sarahparkes1547]

Cream was a band in the 60's we had the best music

[@christopher-xi2ey]

His eyes move exactly with the guitar

[@jmdi2703]

Casino and Goodfellas are best mafia movies ever!

[@hussydahustla]

Goodfellas is a perfect film. You can't make it any better.

[@armandopedaux9669]

Iconic movie and rock and roll moment

[@Martin72ism]

Brilliant director, brilliant movie.

[@johnsailor5906]

I've watched Goodfellas like 25 times, never ever get tired of it!