David Ferrie is the highlight of this movie
Do you concur?
shareI do. It's Pescis best role.
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How or why he didn't get nominated is baffling. Tommy was good but Joe steals the show.
shareThe film hit a higher gear whenever he was on screen. Him banging that pay phone like it owed him money was glorious! Amongst many others.
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I think Sutherland as Mr. X was the biggest highlight, but Pesci as David Ferrie was a real scene-stealer too. I just love his whole nervous rant in the hotel room, and the part where he's on the pay phone and slams the phone against the box. I honestly think Pesci was perfect for that role, and he played it magnificently.
shareDo you think that phone-slamming scene was Stone paying homage to the DeNiro phone slamming in Goodfellas, when he learns that Pesci's character Tommy has just been murdered? JFK came out 1 year after Goodfellas. Then of course there is Pesci phone-slamming Don Rickles just a few years later in Casino. Seems like it was almost a back-and-forth inside joke between the two directors.
shareDo you think that phone-slamming scene was Stone paying homage to the DeNiro phone slamming in Goodfellas, when he learns that Pesci's character Tommy has just been murdered? JFK came out 1 year after Goodfellas. Then of course there is Pesci phone-slamming Don Rickles just a few years later in Casino.And also in Casino Pesci hits another guy with a pay phone. The guy De Niro throws out for taking off his boots and putting his feet up.
And later in 8 Heads In A Duffel Bag, Pesci does the phone-slamming thing again, on two separate occasion during the course of the movie! share
No way. Pesci's performance is great of course, but with such a wonderful cast (Costner, Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, etc,...), I wouldn't pinpoint one performance. For me the highlight is the editing, a breakthrough and influential to this day.
shareNo. He's ridiculous. Joe Pesci playing Joe Pesci with the added stupidity of the wig, fake eyebrows.
Absolute nonsense. And yes, I appreciate those were "attributes" of the real character but you don't need them added to cartoon Pesci. Once you have 100% ham you don't need to add ham to the ham.