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Read more‘The Irishman' is Martin Scorsese's Eulogy to Gangster Cinema [Review]
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” starts off with a tracking shot down a hallway, much like the Copacabana take in “Goodfellas,” except this one ends with a close-up of a geriatric and wheelchair-bound Robert De Niro. It’s no coincidence that Scorsese decided to open his movie with this shot as if to tell us this is the end of the road for the goombahs he has so legendarily depicted in classics such as “Mean Streets,” “Goodfellas” and “Casino.” It’s a potent wakeup call for the viewer that this will not be your usual Scorsese-directed mob movie.
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