When all the pieces fall into place, everything goes well and when they don't, everything falls apart. The scene where Henry tells Lois not to call anyone using the house phone and she does, is an example of when things didn't go as planned and things escalated quickly. This led narcotics officers to arrest Henry. Another theme of the movie is that every girl chooses the bad boy type. According to relationship psychology examiner Rhonda Oliver: "Bad Boys exude an arrogant, machoistic, 'gangsta' dominance of wild masculinity, which serves as a type of intoxicating attraction for women who like men who live on the edge. Some sports tattoos, the more tattoos the better. If muscles accompany those tattoos, watch out! The psychology of it all is the chase-and-conquer challenge. Women attracted to the "bad boy" persona tend to take extreme risks or they seem to live dangerously on the edge. (P.1, 2)Karen knows that Henry is not a nice guy and this excites her. In the scene where Henry punches Karen's neighbors in the face, he hands her the gun with which he committed the crime 'act. Karen knows that most girls wouldn't be with a guy after he tells her to hide a gun, but this "excites" her. This backfires on Karen as she ends up with a man who gets into serious trouble with the law and betrays it throughout the film. Infidelity is also a recurring theme in the film. The guys say that Saturday is for the wife and Sunday is for the girlfriend, in the scene where all the main male characters are seen flirting with women who are not their partners. The theme of cultural and religious difference comes up quite often as a GOOD. Karen, a Jewish woman, is worried that her parents don't approve of Henry, because he does... halfway through the paper... comes when James is introduced. During the freeze, Henry's voiceover explains who James is. Once again, in this situation the freeze frame was used to establish a crucial point in the film, as James is an important character. Zoom shots were used throughout the film to show the characters' emotions. An example is a zoom in on Henry's daughter when Karen and Henry argue and Henry storms out of the house. The camera zooms in on her daughter's face so the audience gets an idea of who these actions affect. Tracking shooting refers to a camera movement where the camera is attached to a dolly and pushed along a track to capture a moving object. In Goodfellas you can find several tracking shots throughout the film. These shots showed how everything came together for the crowd and also showed the organization. The first tracking shot comes when Henry first meets James. The shot
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