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Bada-Rap! It's No Good, Fellas '/ Sopranos' no match for Henry's boys
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The "GoodFellas" gang could easily take the goons of "The Sopranos," according to a couple of people who know about these things.
"They're going to be really mad I'm saying this, but I would have to say the guys in 'GoodFellas' are the more realistic mob family," Lorraine Bracco said Wednesday night in Battery Park, at an AMC Network screening of Martin Scorsese's classic 1990 fact-based drama.
"I think it's just because of the players involved - Joe Pesci, Robert [De Niro]," said Bracco, a star of both the TV show and the movie. "They're a generation older than Gandolfini and the boys. It's the same genre of story, but I think 'GoodFellas' is much grittier."
Ray Liotta, who starred as gangster Henry Hill in the movie, agreed.
"I think Joe and Bob would definitely kick Tony Soprano's butt," Liotta said, referring to Pesci's Tommy DeVito and De Niro's Jimmy Conway. "My guy wouldn't. Henry Hill got as far as he did because he was quiet and low-key, and that's why they trusted him so much. "But really," he added, "I think it's apples and oranges. 'The Sopranos' is fiction."
Scorsese says he's seen only one episode of "The Sopranos." "It's not really territory I go into," he said. But he was happy to contrast the "GoodFellas" hotheads with the oppressed Civil War-era Irish immigrants of his coming "Gangs of New York." "The 19th century was the most violent time in American history," he said. "The poor Irish couldn't express themselves any other way than through demonstrations."
Theirs was a fiercer, more passionate, politically motivated violence "that was part of the formation of the country," Scorsese said.
Bada-Rap! It's No Good, Fellas '/ Sopranos' no match for Henry's boys
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The "GoodFellas" gang could easily take the goons of "The Sopranos," according to a couple of people who know about these things.
"They're going to be really mad I'm saying this, but I would have to say the guys in 'GoodFellas' are the more realistic mob family," Lorraine Bracco said Wednesday night in Battery Park, at an AMC Network screening of Martin Scorsese's classic 1990 fact-based drama.
"I think it's just because of the players involved - Joe Pesci, Robert [De Niro]," said Bracco, a star of both the TV show and the movie. "They're a generation older than Gandolfini and the boys. It's the same genre of story, but I think 'GoodFellas' is much grittier."
Ray Liotta, who starred as gangster Henry Hill in the movie, agreed.
"I think Joe and Bob would definitely kick Tony Soprano's butt," Liotta said, referring to Pesci's Tommy DeVito and De Niro's Jimmy Conway. "My guy wouldn't. Henry Hill got as far as he did because he was quiet and low-key, and that's why they trusted him so much. "But really," he added, "I think it's apples and oranges. 'The Sopranos' is fiction."
Scorsese says he's seen only one episode of "The Sopranos." "It's not really territory I go into," he said. But he was happy to contrast the "GoodFellas" hotheads with the oppressed Civil War-era Irish immigrants of his coming "Gangs of New York." "The 19th century was the most violent time in American history," he said. "The poor Irish couldn't express themselves any other way than through demonstrations."
Theirs was a fiercer, more passionate, politically motivated violence "that was part of the formation of the country," Scorsese said.
