More specifically, while Goodfellas does not shy away from the violence and chaos of street life, it questions the nature of the criminal enterprise, its "profit motive" (P.210, 2)Goodfellas ( 1990) directed by my Martin Scorsese, is a film focused on the rise and fall of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in the world of organized crime. Scorsese based the film on the 1985 book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi. The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director at the 63rd Academy Awards. The film opens with a flashback with voice-over narration by Henry Hill, foreshadowing Henry's involvement with the Mafia. It is a scene in which Henry, James Conway (Robert De Niro), and Tommy Devito (Joe Pesce) kill an individual in the trunk of a vehicle. The individual they kill turns out to be Billy Batts (Frank Vincent), a very important member of the mafia. The next scene takes us back even further. Scorsese takes us to Brooklyn, New York, in 1955. We see a young Henry Hill, 13 years old, an innocent young man who seems to have a bright future. Henry admires the "gangsters" of the neighborhood. “For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster,” Henry said. Henry admired the fact that they were untouchable and highly respected throughout the city. A young Henry began working at a local taxi rank across the street from his house, which was owned by the mafia. The longer he worked there, the more deeply he became involved with the gangsters. Henry went from parking the Cadillac to doing the dirty work. The first act of evil that the audience witnesses Henry's involvement in is when he breaks the windows of several vehicles and pours gasoline into them, with the intent of blowing them up. Just as the cars explode, Scorsese uses... middle of paper... point of view, the initial contact between the film and its audience is an agreed upon conception of human life: that man is a being with the possibilities of success or failure. This principle also belongs to the city; you have to stand out from the crowd otherwise you are nothing. On this basis the necessity of action is established, which proceeds along unalterable paths until the point where the gangster lies dead and the principle has been modified: in reality there is only one possibility: failure”. (P. 585, 1)Organization is an important theme in the film. Throughout the film you get to see firsthand how Henry and the mafia are organized. The tracking shots of the restaurant and the poker game are a metaphor for this. Everyone had a job and did it well. Even when they were in prison everything was smooth and organized. Cooking was a big thing in prison and they had a...