Understanding Film                                                      Shane Gladstone Analytical Essay on any Scorsese Film: (Goodfellas, 1990) In the year 1990 Warner Bros released a motion picture titled Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the narratives main strand dealt with the issue of a misguided youth enjoying his rites of passage from within the inner sanctum of the Italian gangland of the early sixties New York. The narrative continues in a narrated biographical form, following the protagonist through highs and lows before eventually …showed first 75 words of 1723 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1723 total…what they had just seen. To conclude, my stylistic and narrative changes are coherent and viable but there would always be a risk of filling the mise en scene with "directorial masturbation". Through the use of advanced techniques and tricks you gain technological praise but at what price? Too many distractions can take the focus from the narrative and therefore remove or alienate the audience from the intended aims of the original storyline. Word Count 1650