Thirty years after the release of “Goodfellas,” the film’s grip on popular culture remains firm. Drawing on Nicholas Pileggi’s book “Wiseguy” (1985)—about the travails of Henry Hill, an eager mob initiate who eventually switches allegiance to the FBI—Martin Scorsese presented a startlingly fresh downmarket view of Mafia life. Rejecting the operatic splendor of, say, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather,” Mr. Scorsese presented the gangsters as they were. “What these people do is morally wrong, but the film doesn’t say that,” he told the film critic David Ehrenstein in 1992. “These guys are really just working stiffs.”
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