David Chase, the creator of which super-hit TV series called the movie Goodfellas his inspiration?
"the series as the ""elitist of the elite,"" adding: ""...The Sopranos resurfaces once more as a superbly written and executed hybrid of popular entertainment and high art, offering up its own Golden Age of TV."" ""Detroit Free Press"" commended the series creator, David Chase, and singled out the show's writing and acting for praise: ""The Sopranos, even as series creator David Chase changes pace this season from power struggles to family matters, is still as good as television gets: wonderfully written, superbly acted, always unpredictable."" 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards 8th Screen Actors Guild Awards 59th Golden Globe Awards 6th Golden"
"Goodfellas Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is an adaptation of the 1985 non-fiction book ""Wiseguy"" by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980. Scorsese initially titled the film ""Wise Guy"" and postponed making it; later, he and Pileggi changed the title to ""Goodfellas"". To prepare for their roles in the film, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over"
"Sopranos"" creator David Chase. He was nominated for the Emmy award in 2002 and 2003 for his work on ""The Sopranos"" and won The Directors Guild of America award for the show in 2002. As a director, Patterson worked for several television studios, including HBO and CBS. He directed episodes of ""The Sopranos"", ""Providence"", ""The Practice"", ""Carnivàle"", ""Family Law"", ""Six Feet Under"", """", ""CHiPs"", ""Magnum P.I."", ""Hill Street Blues"", ""The Guardian"", and the pilot episode of ""Law & Order"". He also directed more than 12 television movies, usually thrillers and crime stories, including ""A Deadly Silence"" (1989) and ""Seduced By"
"Film and Television Arts, including Best Film and Best Director. Additionally, ""Goodfellas"" was named the year's best film by various critics' groups. ""Goodfellas"" is often cited as one of the greatest films of all time. In 2000, it was deemed ""culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant"" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television shows. In 1955, Henry Hill, a high school student, becomes enamored of the criminal life in his neighborhood, and begins working for Paul ""Paulie"" Cicero and"
"by Ray Liotta in the award winning box office hit, Goodfellas which was directed by Martin Scorsese. Hill died unexpectedly just days after a meeting with Gere. The future of the film is unknown at this time, but Gere has indicated that he has been in contact with Hill's girlfriend, Lisa Caserta to revive the project. David Gere David Gere (born February 15, 1975) is an American film producer, actor, artist and business entrepreneur. David Gere was born and raised in Cromwell, Connecticut, and attended Cromwell High School. He later attended Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island on an academic"
"Lufthansa Airline robbery at Kennedy Airport. Other books by Hill include: ""Goodfellas"", the 1990 Martin Scorsese-directed crime film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book ""Wiseguy"" by Nicholas Pileggi, follows the 1955 to 1980 rise and fall of Hill and his Lucchese crime family associates. Scorsese initially named the film ""Wise Guy"" but subsequently, with Pileggi's agreement, changed the name to ""Goodfellas"" to avoid confusion with the unrelated television crime drama ""Wiseguy"". To prepare for their roles in the film, the actors often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material he gathered while writing the book. The director made transcripts of"
"""I'll Fly Away"", and ""Northern Exposure"". He had also co-created the short-lived original series ""Almost Grown"" in 1988. He made his television directorial debut in 1986 with the ""Enough Rope for Two"" episode of ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"". He also directed episodes of ""Almost Grown"" and ""I'll Fly Away"" in 1988 and 1992, respectively. In 1996, he wrote and directed the television film ""The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime"". He served as showrunner for ""I'll Fly Away"" and ""Northern Exposure"" in the 1990s. Chase won his first Emmy Award in 1978 for his work on ""The Rockford Files"" (shared with fellow"
"and married his high school sweetheart Denise Kelly. He is the father of actress Michele DeCesare who appeared in six ""Sopranos"" episodes as Hunter Scangarelo. Chase has stated that he ""loathed and despised"" television shows, watching only ""The Sopranos"" and movies. However, he has said in recent interviews that he watches ""Boardwalk Empire"" and ""Mad Men"", the work of former ""Sopranos"" writers and producers Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner. He said that he made those comments in part because he had been working within the confines of 1990s network television. David Chase David Chase (born August 22, 1945) is an"
"way up through the mob. Goodfellas was incredibly successful and won five BAFTAs. It was beaten in most categories at the Oscars by ""Dances with Wolves"", but achieved universal acclaim with critics and is considered one of the greatest films of all time. In 2005, it was named the greatest film of all time by British magazine Total Film. 1991's ""Cape Fear"" sees De Niro star as a convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence, who stalks the family of the defense lawyer who represented him but deliberately suppressed evidence that would have acquitted him. It is"
"to pursue a career in film—a decision that was not well received by his parents. He went on to attend Stanford University's School of Film. Before creating and developing ""The Sopranos"", Chase started in Hollywood as a story editor for """" and then produced episodes of ""The Rockford Files"" and ""Northern Exposure"", among other series. He also worked as a writer of nineteen episodes while on ""The Rockford Files""—a show which he worked on in various capacities for more than four years. He won several Emmy awards, including one for a television movie, ""Off the Minnesota Strip"", the story of"
"was honoured at the Cannes Film Festival the year of its release, box office champion ""Bollywood/Hollywood"", also written and directed by Deepa Mehta) and television series (""""; ""War of the Worlds""; """"; and including his Gemini for Best Series for ""Due South""), Wertheimer made the choice to write and create his own material. In 2004, his first television series as co-creator and showrunner, ""Charlie Jade"", commenced production in Cape Town, South Africa. Ultimately, 21 episodes of the program would be made. ""Charlie Jade"" was inspired by ""The Culture of Make Believe"" by activist author, Derrick Jensen. It was designed to"
"from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked best and put them into a revised script, which the cast worked from during principal photography. Made on a budget of $25 million, ""Goodfellas"" grossed $46.8 million. It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor. The film won five awards from the British Academy of"
"mob film until he saw a review of Pileggi's book, which he then read while working on the set of ""Color of Money"" in 1986. He had always been fascinated by the Mob lifestyle and was drawn to Pileggi's book because it was the most honest portrayal of gangsters he had ever read. After reading Pileggi's book, the filmmaker knew what approach he wanted to take: ""To begin ""Goodfellas"" like a gunshot and have it get faster from there, almost like a two-and-a-half-hour trailer. I think it's the only way you can really sense the exhilaration of the lifestyle, and"
"a runaway he scripted in 1980. After ""The Rockford Files"" run ended the same year, Chase worked in numerous television jobs until he wound up in charge of ""Northern Exposure"" in 1993. Chase worked in relative anonymity before ""The Sopranos"" debuted. Inspired as a youth by the film ""The Public Enemy"", Chase created the critically and commercially successful show by drawing heavily on his own personal life; the character of Livia Soprano is modelled after his own mother. In a recent interview, Chase stated that he experienced frustration for a long period with being unable to break out of the"
"and use ""all the basic tricks of the New Wave from around 1961"". The names of several real-life gangsters were altered for the film: Tommy ""Two Gun"" DeSimone became the character Tommy DeVito; Paul Vario became Paulie Cicero, and Jimmy ""The Gent"" Burke was portrayed as Jimmy Conway. Pileggi and Scorsese decided to change the title of their film to ""Goodfellas"" because two contemporary projects, the 1986 Brian De Palma film ""Wise Guys"" and the 1987–1990 TV series ""Wiseguy"" had used similar titles. Once Robert De Niro agreed to play Conway, Scorsese was able to secure the money needed to"
"and Andrea Morricone ""Say Good-bye"" ""Dick Tracy"" (Buena Vista Home Video) - John Caglione Jr. and Doug Drexler ""Dick Tracy"" (Buena Vista Home Video) - Richard Sylbert ""Toxic"" ""Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)"" (Palace Video) Paul Fox 44th British Academy Film Awards The 44th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1991, honoured the best films of 1990. Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas won the awards for Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Editing and Costume Design. ""Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)"", directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, also won five awards, including Best Film not in the"
"by' credit. In 1995 he won the BAFTA for his screenplay adaptation for the drama ""Quiz Show"". He later wrote the screenplays for the thriller ""Disclosure"", the gangster movie ""Donnie Brasco"", the science fiction film ""Sphere"", and the political thriller ""The Sum of All Fears"". In 2000 he returned to television and started executive producing, in addition to writing, the medical drama ""Gideon's Crossing"" and the pilot for ""R.U.S.H"". Along with David Shore, he is one of the creators of the TV series ""House"", of which he was executive producer. In 2006 he wrote the screenplay for the dramatic film"
"producers) and his second for writing the 1980 television film ""Off the Minnesota Strip"". By 1996, he was a coveted showrunner. The story of ""The Sopranos"" was initially conceived as a feature film about ""a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother."" Chase got some input from his manager Lloyd Braun and decided to adapt it into a television series. He signed a development deal in 1995 with production company Brillstein-Grey and wrote the original pilot script. He drew heavily from his personal life and his experiences growing up in New Jersey, and has stated that he tried to"
"class on how to breathe new life into an old franchise and how to respect source material without being beholden to it. The Guardian wrote: "" Bates Motel – arguably the best horror series ever made – succeeded because it owed more to Breaking Bad than Psycho in its depiction of a slow slide into evil. It wasn't about a lunatic running around murdering people. It was about a relationship between two people, and that's why the denouement landed such a sickening punch. Cuse is showrunner, executive producer, developer and writer of ""The Strain"", an FX drama series based on"
"11 Academy Award nominations. It again won Best Picture. Coppola won Best Director and Robert DeNiro won best supporting actor for his portrayal of a young Vito Corleone. The lesson of the films' successes was not wasted on Hollywood. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the studios issued a steady flow of films about Italian American gangsters and the Mafia. Some of these were critically acclaimed. Scorsese's ""Goodfellas"" about Henry Hill's life and relationship with the Lucchese and Gambino crime families, was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director and won the award for Best Supporting Actor"
"""apply [his own] family dynamic to mobsters."" For instance, the tumultuous relationship between series protagonist Tony Soprano and his mother Livia is partially based on Chase's relationship with his own mother. He was also in psychotherapy at the time and modeled the character of Dr. Jennifer Melfi after his own psychiatrist. Chase had been fascinated by organized crime and the mafia from an early age, witnessing such people growing up. He also was raised on classic gangster films, such as ""The Public Enemy"", and the crime series ""The Untouchables"". The series is partly inspired by the Boiardo family, a prominent"
"to dedicating his 1987 novel ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" to Hayes, Wolfe has acknowledged that he based the lawyer character Tommy Killian on him. Andy Warhol had met the lawyer briefly in the fall of 1980 and wrote in his diary: Defense lawyer named Ed Hayes who looked like he was from Laverne and Shirley, like a plant that people invite to parties to wear funny clothes and jump around and make things ‘kooky.’ Sort of forties clothes, really crew cut, about twenty-nine. He said, ‘I can get ya outta anything.’ In the 1990 American film classic Goodfellas, Hayes"
"basketball players commit point shaving scandal during the 1978–79 season, an episode briefly mentioned in the movie. The documentary, narrated by Ray Liotta, was set up so that the viewer needed to watch the movie beforehand, to understand many of the references in the story. In 2015, ""Goodfellas"" closed the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival with a screening of its 25th anniversary remaster. American Film Institute Lists Goodfellas Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is an adaptation of the 1985 non-fiction book ""Wiseguy"" by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The"
"most prominent examples is the creator of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", the late Douglas Adams, who wrote or co-wrote several television scripts (""The Pirate Planet"", ""City of Death"" and ""Shada"") and was script editor of the original series' seventeenth season. Adams had been a fan since the first season, and made two attempts to pitch a script for ""Doctor Who"" in the early 1970s before his first serial was commissioned. ""Queer as Folk"" creator Russell T Davies, ""Coupling"" creator Steven Moffat, and ""Broadchurch"" creator Chris Chibnall were all lifelong fans of the series, and all in turn became"
"Television (YTV), to adapt J. B. Priestley's ""The Good Companions"" as a thirteen part serial. Plater was only able to stretch the plot to fill nine episodes and so offered to write four episodes of what he called a ""non-violent thriller"" to make up the balance. Using characters inspired by Nick and Nora Charles, the detectives in the film ""The Thin Man"" (1934) and its sequels, Plater sought to juxtapose the conventions of the hardboiled thriller, as expounded by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, with the mundanity of life in Yorkshire. The plot was inspired by a"
"a protected witness and was arrested in 1987 in Seattle for narcotics conspiracy, receiving five years probation. He has been clean since then. After 25 years of marriage, Henry and Karen separated in 1989. Paulie died in 1988 in Fort Worth Federal Prison at the age of 73 from respiratory illness. Jimmy is serving a twenty-years-to-life sentence in a New York prison for murder and will not be eligible for parole until 2004, when he will be 78 years old. ""Goodfellas"" is based on New York crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi's book ""Wiseguy"". Martin Scorsese did not intend to make another"
"collaboration, after ""Lethal Weapon 2"" and ""3"". According to Cuse, Bob Greenblatt, an executive at Fox Broadcasting Company, engaged him and Boam to develop a television series ""because of ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"""". Greenblatt wanted a show that had a style similar to the ""Indiana Jones"" movies. Cuse started watching old serials and noticed that many fell into two genres: Westerns and science fiction. This gave Boam and Cuse the idea to combine the genres. They decided to emulate the serials' style; for example, each act within an episode begins with a title, usually a pun, and ends"
"car, dumpster, and meat truck. Sometimes, the lyrics of songs were put between lines of dialogue to comment on the action. Some of the music Scorsese had written into the script, while other songs he discovered during the editing phase. ""Goodfellas"" premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival, where Scorsese received the Silver Lion award for best director. It was given a wide release in North America on September 21, 1990 in 1,070 theaters with an opening weekend gross of US$6.3 million. It went on to make $46.8 million domestically. On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, 96% of 91"
"interviews and tours which strongly inspired some characters, settings, and storylines portrayed in ""The Sopranos"". Like the characters they portray on the show, many of the actors on ""The Sopranos"" are Italian American. Many cast members had appeared together in films and television series before joining the cast of ""The Sopranos"". The series shares a total of 27 actors with the 1990 Martin Scorsese gangster film, ""Goodfellas"", including main cast members Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, and Tony Sirico. The main cast was put together through a process of auditions and readings. Actors often did not know whether Chase liked their"
"verified that she was involved in any drug related instances said, New York Cables Edition. Khan's lawyer in his case was Robert Simels. Simels is former lawyer of convicted drug trafficker Kenneth McGriff and American mobster Henry Hill, who received international fame because of the 1990 American crime movie ""Goodfellas"" which portrays his rise and fall. On 4 December 2009, Khan's lawyer was sentenced to 14 years in prison for, after consulting with Khan in jail, instructing a hit-man to kill the star witness in Khan's case. However, the hit-man turned out to be a government informant who secretly recorded"
"Dan Houser, stated, ""Anyone who makes 3-D games who says they've not borrowed something from ""Mario"" or ""Zelda"" [on the Nintendo 64] is lying."" Rockstar founder and ""Grand Theft Auto"" director Sam Houser also cited the influence of ""Zelda"", describing ""Grand Theft Auto III"" as ""Zelda meets Goodfellas"". ""Ōkami"" director Hideki Kamiya (Capcom, PlatinumGames) states that he has been influenced by ""The Legend of Zelda"" series in developing the game, citing """" as his favorite game of all time. ""Soul Reaver"" and ""Uncharted"" director, Amy Hennig (Crystal Dynamics, Naughty Dog), cited ""Zelda"" as inspiration for the ""Legacy of Kain"" series,"
"New Jersey organized crime family when Chase was growing up, and partly on New Jersey's DeCavalcante family. He has mentioned American playwrights Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as influences on the show's writing, and Italian director Federico Fellini as an important influence on the show's cinematic style. The series was named after high school friends of his. Chase and producer Brad Grey pitched ""The Sopranos"" to several networks; Fox showed interest but passed on it after Chase presented them the pilot script. They eventually pitched the show to Chris Albrecht, president of HBO Original Programming, who decided to finance a"
"spent several years writing for television in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He gained recognition and commercial success by penning the screenplay for ""Braveheart"" (1995), which was inspired by a trip to Scotland to learn more about his Scottish roots. While there, he discovered the legend of the medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace; he is not, however, related to William Wallace in any way. ""Braveheart"" became Wallace’s first screenplay to be produced, after drawing the interest of director and star, Mel Gibson. It ended up as one of the most successful films of 1995, earning the Academy Award for"