Scorsese presents being a gangster as a part of life. They are good or bad people, it does not matter, they are just people. He does not concentrate in this act of classification, of being gangsters, between good or bad but in how is their life and what they are searching for. Goodfellas is a movie about how a specific gangster begins this type of life and tries to rise himself up to the top. The most important thing, that a gangster needs, to accomplish this, is respect. To be respected by others gives you power. To achieve this, gangsters do whatever they can. Again, it is not about being good or bad, it is about power and how to gain it. Once a gangster gains respect he will have power to do whatever he want.
In Scorsese’s movies, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, and Casino, he also shows the other side of being a gangster. Gangsters can not make any mistake. Because if they do they will get killed by other gangsters without them thinking it twice. This is what happens to Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and in Casino. In Goodfellas, he kills a made man, a man that can not be touched because of the respect he has gained. In Casino, he also tries to jump this line of respect and gets killed. In Mean Streets, the main characters get also killed because they did not pay a debt and were disrespectful to another gangster.
This is what Scorsese tries to say about gangsters in his movies. A gangster can get power by gaining respect but he can also get killed in any moment by another gangster that is also looking for power.
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Yes!. Scorsese makes you understand, why this people where gangsters, what motivated them, what were the pluses of being a respected member of the community. He presents how they lived, they weren’t bad people, they loved, care for each other but business where businesses, if you made them doubt from you, or you disrespected them, you’ll die.
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