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The Goodfellas Painting

The oil of the two dogs was painted by Nicholas Pileggi’s mother, and is based on a photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. Pileggi was the author of Wise Guy, a treatment of the life of gangster Henry Hill, on which Good Fellas is based.

The dialogue in the scene is great:

TOMMY: I like this one. One dog goes one way and the other goes the other.

MOTHER: One’s going east, the other’s going west. So what?

TOMMY: And this guy’s saying, “Whaddya want from me?” The guy’s got a nice head of white hair. Beautiful. The dog it looks the same.

via @jmerriman + @hyams

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    This scene is hilarious and everything about this movie is amazing.

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    I always laugh at the part when they zoom in on the painted guy’s face and Pesci says, “Whaddya want from me?”

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