Most Rewatchable Scene
Biker-bar fight; Lorenzo confronts Sonny; craps game
In the discussion (14)
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- Lorenzo apologizing after striking C and then holding him is especially heartbreaking.
- The bar introductions divide opinion: Eddie Mush, Tony Toupee, Jojo the Whale, Frankie Coffee Cake, Jimmy Whispers, Danny K.O. and Bobby Bars supply amusing nicknames and jokes, but the sequence is criticized as copying Goodfellas without equally important characters.
- The police lineup and doing a good thing for a bad man are nominated.
- The craps sequence introduces the Mantle advice and Mush’s bad luck.
- The elaborate craps scene is compared with Hard Eight as a possible best film depiction.
- The neighborhood favors and returning$600 echo Goodfellas, but the earlier stage play and shared lived experience complicate accusations of copying.
- Lorenzo’s working-man-is-the-tough-guy speech is praised.
- The racetrack’s we’ve-been-mushed moment is nominated and linked with later gambling slang.
- The twenty-dollar advice, loved-or-feared conversation, biker fight, door test, rescue from the car, shooting and funeral are nominated.
- Two choices favor Now Youse Can’t Leave; the Lorenzo–Sonny confrontation receives two supportive choices, one after a biker-scene preference.
- The racist friends’ fiery deaths are welcomed as deserved consequences.
- The craps game is the remaining final favorite.
- The boxing scene, where C is embarrassed to sit with his father, is a late emotional favorite that evokes regret after a parent’s death.
- The boxing-scene response is qualified by recognition that loving fathers can also be emotionally unavailable or racist; Lorenzo’s flaws improve the characterization.