Dan Houser
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes.
And almost like an open world game in some ways, in that it's this slice of life.
You see, you know, I think that probably changed...
cinema at the sort of tail end of the 80s early 90s more than any other film and it's it's so iconic in some ways i prefer casino but the invention is really in goodfellas i love the end of casino you know the use of voice over the way you saw them being criminals and being normal people you know it changed everything i mean the sopranos obviously is completely inspired by goodfellas
The look, the clothes.
Yeah.
Dig another hole.
I think the great Vegas film, the bits that I always, that I love at the end when everything's wrapping up.
And on the one hand, you see the Robert De Niro character.
He's still good at making money.
So they let him return to normal life.
But then you get that brilliant scene when all of the, the mob bosses from back home, they're discussing all these people who, who, who may or may not be able to implicate them.
And then there's that incredibly cold line.
And one of them, they're thinking about the, the old, you know, I think it's a casino manager.
And one of them just goes,
I think you did for that, didn't you?
I love the book so much.
I was obsessed by it when I was about 17, 18.
And I enjoyed the film, but I preferred the book.
No, but one of the things we're working on now, there's sort of an English version of Hunter S. Thompson if he was also a market gardener.