![]() ![]() “I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.” ![]() “I’m an average nobody,” he complains in the voiceover. He is last seen standing on a doorstep in his dressing gown, staring into the camera as he contemplates life in the witness protection programme. Take any of the movie’s most memorable scenes and Liotta is at the heart of them: the technically complex single-take Steadicam shot, which doubles as a portrait of Henry’s rise in miniature as it follows him and Karen from the streets into the back entrance of the Copacabana nightclub, through its corridors and kitchens, and ends up at their VIP table for that evening’s show the mortifying moment when Henry makes the mistake of referring to the volatile Tommy (Pesci) as “a funny guy”, unleashing in the process an intimidating tirade and the virtuoso sequence late in the film in which Henry, frazzled on cocaine, plagued by paranoia and pursued by the Feds, finally runs out of luck. ![]()
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