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Hot Flatus

RIP Ray Liotta
« on: 26 May, 2022, 06:57:15 pm »
He's been clipped by God
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citoyen

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Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #1 on: 26 May, 2022, 07:34:08 pm »
Funny guy
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Hot Flatus

Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #2 on: 26 May, 2022, 07:44:25 pm »
What do you mean 'funny'? Funny how? Does he amuse you?
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Kim

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Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #3 on: 26 May, 2022, 07:54:41 pm »
As is often the case with famous people, I had to look him up.  He appears to have been in a vast number of things I've never seen, and a couple of un-memorable minor roles in things I have.
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Hot Flatus

Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #4 on: 26 May, 2022, 07:58:36 pm »
and?

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Kim

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Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #5 on: 26 May, 2022, 08:09:30 pm »
This was unusual.  Normally when I look famous actors up, it's a case of "oh, that guy".  This one seems to have specialised in being in films that I don't want to watch.  Men in suits, violent crimes and muppets seem to be recurring themes.  So I can only assume he was really good at kidnapping Miss Piggy for the Mob, or something.
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citoyen

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Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #6 on: 26 May, 2022, 08:23:39 pm »
Quote from: Hot Flatus on 26 May, 2022, 07:44:25 pm
What do you mean 'funny'? Funny how? Does he amuse you?

Funny like a clown!

Damn, that's a truly great film.
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toontra

Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #7 on: 26 May, 2022, 08:25:13 pm »
Quote from: citoyen on 26 May, 2022, 08:23:39 pm

Damn, that's a truly great film.

It really is.
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T42

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Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #8 on: 27 May, 2022, 11:10:41 am »
I always read his name as Lolita and did a double-take.
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ian

Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #9 on: 27 May, 2022, 12:05:07 pm »
Allegedly (and believably) that scene was improvised by Pesci and Liotta (based on an anecdote from Pesci). It's brilliantly done.
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farfetched

Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #10 on: 27 May, 2022, 05:30:32 pm »
With his Italian background he was always going to fit well in mob films. Strangely enough in Goodfellas he plays an intruder, Henry Hill, who was Irish American. Great film though.
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Robh

Re: RIP Ray Liotta
« Reply #11 on: 28 May, 2022, 01:40:23 am »
Quote from: farfetched on 27 May, 2022, 05:30:32 pm
With his Italian background he was always going to fit well in mob films. Strangely enough in Goodfellas he plays an intruder, Henry Hill, who was Irish American. Great film though.
That's an interesting observation, and one I might have gone along with had I not read this from him in an interview with I'm from 2021:

"Liotta was adopted when he was six months old by an Italian-American couple and raised in New Jersey. He later tracked down his birth mother and discovered he had a clutch of half-siblings and a full sister. He’s so associated with being Italian-American, did discovering his biological family change his self-image?

“Not really, no. The reality is, in terms of ethnicity, I have no idea what I am. I found out a lot of things from meeting my birth mother, but it didn’t change anything. I just relaxed into [thinking]: ‘This is the way my life turned out.’"

(https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/24/ray-liotta-why-havent-i-worked-with-scorsese-since-goodfellas-youd-have-to-ask-him-id-love-to)


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