Exercise:
Watch this famous scene from Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese in 1990: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEVtqXdK8 [accessed 24/02/14] Don’t read on until you’ve answered the following questions. • What does this scene tell you about the main character?
- How does it do this? List the ‘clues’.
- Make some notes in your learning log.
Findings:
The main character appears to be an influential and important person within the plot. He is well dressed and has plenty of money, this is seen as he holds wads of banknotes in his hand as he walks through the building tipping each of the staff as he goes, he even has someone to look after his car.
He is respected, everyone knows who he is and greets him in a polite and friendly way.
He is in a position of power because he can walk right through a working kitchen without any issue. The club owner sets a table up especially for him when he arrives and he also knows other people in the club who are important.
He is not the most important or powerful person there, this is demonstrated by his age and his acknowledgment of the older guy on a table close by when the guy gives him a bottle of champagne as a gift.
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