Tommy DeVito

Martin Scorsese's 1990 classic Goodfellas follows the rise and fall of Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, a half-Irish, half-Italian kid from Brooklyn who spends his life chasing the glamorous mafia lifestyle.

Working alongside charismatic capos Jimmy Conway, played by Robert De Niro, and the hot-tempered Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci, Henry achieves wealth, respect, and, uh, immunity from the law.

But as their criminal empire grows, so does the paranoia.

Fueled by greed, betrayal, and a chaotic turn into drug trafficking, the tight-knit gang unravels from the inside, leaving Henry with a choice between ultimate ruin or betraying the only life he's ever wanted.

Now go home and get your fucking shine box.

Motherfucking mutt.

Tommy.

Tommy, come here.

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Near the end of Goodfellas, Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito kisses his mother goodbye in a sharp suit and gets into the car that's come to take him to his ceremony.

Today he's been told he becomes a made man, the one honor his friends Jimmy and Henry can never have.

He's driven to a house and walked into a room that turns out to be empty, where he has just enough time to understand what that means before he's shot in the back of the head.

Right.

In Wiseguy, despite how awful someone like Tommy DeVito is, there is a warped sense of street level camaraderie.

You know, they are outlaws pulling off heists.

It feels almost feral and wild.

But let's talk about this movie in a whole.

So the logline of this movie is the story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife, Karen, and his mob partners, Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

And it stars Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Cervino, Frank Civero, Tony Darrow, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, Um, Chuck Lowe, Gina Mastro Giacomo, Catherine Scorsese, Debbie Mazar.

I mean, there's so many, I mean, look, a lot of the guys in this movie, you will see them in other movies.

I mean, the narration by Ray Liotta is great.

And De Niro is just, this is Pete De Niro to me.

The first part of the movie, we're in 1955, and Henry Hill is a teenager, and he becomes enamored with criminal life, because it is seeing those guys... know and you're young italian american and you're living and you're not you know maybe your family's not you know doing as well but you see these guys and they got these fancy cars they wear these nice suits and they they command respect like everybody respects them maybe out of fear but still respect nonetheless and he uh you know he ends up henry starts working for paulie and and associates jimmy who's an irish-american truck hijacker And then he also has another fellow juvenile delinquent, Tommy DeVito, who's played by Joe Pesci.

And they make their way up through the through the organization.

But as fans of Goodfellas know, there was a third man in the team.

In the movie, he was Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci.

In real life, he was Tommy DeSimone, the youngest and craziest one of the group.

His grandfather and his uncle both served as the heads of the Los Angeles crime family at different times, while his older brothers worked for the Gambino family in New York.

And he keeps repeating a couple of things.

One, he keeps calling Tommy DeVito, who's Joe Pesci, he keeps calling him a sick fuck over and over.

He's like, he was a sick fuck.

Like, he was so terrified of him, it seems at least.

Okay, so they do play around with timelines.

So we start kind of in the middle of the movie and then back up.

It opens up on a scene of Henry Hill, Zuri Liotta, Jimmy Conway, Robert De Niro, and Tommy DeVito, Joe Pesci.

They're kind of driving.

Yeah.

Tom- Tommy? Tommy, is he Tommy in that?

Tommy DeVito.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, he's so terrifying.

It's like-

Could-

"Fucking hell, Tommy" [laughs]