Scorsese describes Goodfellas as following in the same tradition as The Great Train Robbery, a story about outlaws and what happens to them. "It's exactly the same story," he said in an interview.
Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980)
D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919)
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980)
Before filming the famous ax scene, Kubrick had Shelley Duvall watch Lillian Gish's performance in Broken Blossoms for inspiration. Kubrick was known to be a fan of Sjöström's masterpiece, and its influence can also be clearly seen.
Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987)
The Odessa Steps sequence is one of the most referenced scenes in the history of the movies, as seen in movies like Foreign Correspondent , The Godfather and Brazil. De Palma's take has in turn been parodied in Naked Gun 33⅓.
Douglas Fairbank's The Black Pirate (1926)
Richard Donner's The Goonies (1985)
Douglas Fairbanks invented this stunt, which has become a staple of pirate movies ever since. In The Goonies they actually show a clip of Errol Flynn in Captain Blood (1935) doing his version of Fairbanks's sail slide. The mechanics of the stunt were figured out by Fairbanks's brother Robert, who was an engineer.
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