Wie zo nu en dan een goede film kijkt, kan opeens een goede (herkenbare) band krijgen met één of meerdere film karakters. Sterker sommige mensen zien deze als hun idool en verafgoden hen. Alleen als je er goed over na denkt zijn deze karakters vreselijke personen die je eigenlijk staan voor hele andere dingen dan je zelf denkt. Daarom heeft de website Cracked.com nu dit artikel geschreven en daar mochten uiteraard Scarface en Goodfellas niet op ontbreken.

#3. Any Character In Goodfellas

The Godfather really romanticizes mob life, portraying mobsters as honorable, rational people involved in a deep familial struggle. Goodfellas is very intentionally the opposite. The mobsters are more realistic for their petty, cruel, and kind of boring nature. But hardcore fans of the movie treat it like it's The Godfather Begins -- a gritty reboot of the same heroic story.

Take, for example, last year's incredibly stupid essay "Women are not capable of understanding GoodFellas." It claims that the three main characters "are exactly what guys want to be ... a small group of guys who will always have your back." Just like other fanboys of this trio, the author seems to have missed the ending of the movie, wherein Ray Liotta testifies against his bosom buddy Robert De Niro to save his own ass. They quote Joe Pesci's character at his most psychotic, dangerously defensive moments, as though this movie were a zinger-packed John Wick: Origins.

Also, everyone ends up miserable. In case you haven't seen it, Scorsese summarizes the plot as "a bunch of outlaws do this incredible robbery and they all kill each other and the police get them in the end." He says he views it as a cautionary tale about this lifestyle, "Scarface without Scarface." To romanticize these guys is to romanticize crying on the floor, panicked and at wit's end because your wife flushed the last of your cocaine. You know, cool mobster stuff.