Questions: Entertainment & Arts

Both are fantastic films in their own right, and they both deserve to be timeless pieces of American cinema. Scorsese really is the king of cinema.

For those who may not know:

Casino is an epic, displaying the control the mafia had over Las Vegas casinos in the 70's, with De Niro playing a casino executive, as well as an associate of the Chicago Outfit. Pesci plays as a gangster, of whom is a 'made man' of the Chicago Outfit, and is sent to Las Vegas as a mafia representative to protect the partnership the casinos have with the mafia.

Goodfellas is a film about a character played by Ray Liotta, and the film is based around his beginnings of his association with the local mob in his neighbourhood at a young age, all the way into adulthood. The film deeply portrays the inner-workings of organised crime, as well as the people involved. De Niro and Pesci portray other associates of the mob, as well as friends to the main character.

Although I enjoyed both greatly, I personally think that Goodfellas is the better of the two. I found that portraying the film mostly out of one character's vision, made the plot much more straight forward, and it is much easier to pay attention to how the story develops. There was not a lot of different sub-plots, like there was in Casino. I also found the narration to be much more cohesive.

Just my opinion. I am curious to see what others think :)

In honor of the Halloween season :)