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Goodfellas: Legacy, Literary Connections & Art

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the…

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Goodfellas topic overview

The analysis highlights Legacy, Literary Connections and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Goodfellas.

Related topics
214
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
226
Extracted relationships
194
Concept neighborhoods
49
Bridge connections
226

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Cast · 39 topics
Production · 38 topics
Reception · 31 topics
Legacy · 29 topics
Overview · 29 topics
Plot · 26 topics
Release · 12 topics
Accolades · 10 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
Box office
$47.1 million
Budget
$25 million
Cinematography
Michael Ballhaus
Country
United States
Directed by
Martin Scorsese

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Release

Reception

Accolades

Legacy

Bibliography

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Goodfellas connects Entity context

The extracted context around Goodfellas shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Goodfellas → America's Film Legacy, April, Archived, Black, Box Office MojoGoodfellas, Chasingthefrog, Daniel Eagan, Fact, Fiction, Getting Made The Scorsese, GQ, IMDbGoodfellas, ISBN, Landmark Movies, Media, Metacritic, National Film Registry, October, Reel Faces, Retrieved September Another extracted example is Goodfellas → Cahiers, Christie, Cinéma, David, Faber, Ian, ISBN, Journey, Kelly, Martin, Martin Scorsese, Mary Pat, Michael, Nicholas, Pileggi, Rei Mti, Scorsese, Scorsese On Scorsese, Thompson, Thunder's Mouth Press. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Goodfellas

Top relations

related to External links · 27
Goodfellas → America's Film Legacy, April, Archived, Black, Box Office MojoGoodfellas, Chasingthefrog, Daniel Eagan, Fact, Fiction, Getting Made The Scorsese, GQ, IMDbGoodfellas, ISBN, Landmark Movies, Media, Metacritic, National Film Registry, October, Reel Faces, Retrieved September
related to Bibliography · 22
Goodfellas → Cahiers, Christie, Cinéma, David, Faber, Ian, ISBN, Journey, Kelly, Martin, Martin Scorsese, Mary Pat, Michael, Nicholas, Pileggi, Rei Mti, Scorsese, Scorsese On Scorsese, Thompson, Thunder's Mouth Press
related to Home media · 21
Goodfellas → Acrobat's Daughter, Blu-ray, Bugs, December, DVD, February, Gangster Film, In, Like Mountain Music, Looney Tunes, March, Merrie Melodies, On May, Public Enemies, Racketeer Rabbit, She Was, The, The Golden Age, Thugs, Ultra HD Blu-ray
related to Legacy · 16
Goodfellas → AFI, AFI's, American, American Film Institute's, Anniversary Edition, Congress, Gangster, In, In June, Movies, National Film Registry, No, The Godfather, Top, United States Library, Years
related to Lists · 16
Goodfellas → AFI's, Anniversary Edition, Casablanca, Director Martin Scorsese, Gene Siskel, In, Motion Picture Editors Guild, Movies, No, Peter Travers, Roger Ebert, Sight, Sound, The, The Third Man, Years
related to Post-production · 16
Goodfellas → Almost, At, California, Do, Funny, Henry's, Hollywood, However, In, It, MPAA, One, Scorsese, Scorsese's, Thelma Schoonmaker's, Warner Bros
related to Development · 15
Goodfellas → According, After, He, I've, Mafia, Martin Scorsese, Money, New York, Nicholas Pileggi's, Pileggi, Pileggi's, Scorsese, The Color, To, Wiseguy
related to Accolades · 13
Goodfellas → All, Best Picture, Drive My Car, Endearment, LA, Nashville, NSFC, NY, President's Men, Pulp Fiction, Terms, The Hurt Locker, Tár
related to Critical response · 13
Goodfellas → According, Audiences, Chicago Sun-Times, CinemaScore, Hard-hitting, In, Martin Scorsese's, Metacritic, No, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, The, The Godfather
related to Theatrical · 6
Goodfellas → It, North America, Scorsese, September, Silver Lion, Venice International Film Festival

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film scorsese henry jimmy best pileggi pesci tommy movie time gangster 100 hill book films liotta karen made director de

Goodfellas relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 194 structured relationships around Goodfellas. Examples in this analysis include Goodfellas → Based on → Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and Goodfellas → Box office → $47.1 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
GoodfellasBased onWiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi1.00infobox
GoodfellasBox office$47.1 million1.00infobox
GoodfellasBudget$25 million1.00infobox
GoodfellasCinematographyMichael Ballhaus1.00infobox
GoodfellasCountryUnited States1.00infobox
GoodfellasDirected byMartin Scorsese1.00infobox
GoodfellasDistributed byWarner Bros.1.00infobox
GoodfellasEdited byThelma Schoonmaker1.00infobox
GoodfellasLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
GoodfellasProduced byIrwin Winkler1.00infobox
GoodfellasProduction companiesWarner Bros.1.00infobox
GoodfellasProduction companiesIrwin Winkler Productions1.00infobox
GoodfellasRelease datesSeptember 9, 1990 (1990-09-09) (Venice)1.00infobox
GoodfellasRelease datesSeptember 18, 1990 (1990-09-18) (United States)1.00infobox
GoodfellasRunning time146 minutes1.00infobox
GoodfellasScreenplay byNicholas Pileggi1.00infobox
GoodfellasScreenplay byMartin Scorsese1.00infobox
GoodfellasStarringRobert De Niro1.00infobox
GoodfellasStarringRay Liotta1.00infobox
GoodfellasStarringJoe Pesci1.00infobox
GoodfellasStarringLorraine Bracco1.00infobox
GoodfellasStarringPaul Sorvino1.00infobox
Goodfellasis agangster classic0.90text
Goodfellasis avery important movie to me and Goodfellas really plowed that0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Goodfellas bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Films, Best and Scorsese. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Director
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    • Greatest
  • goodfellas
    • Films
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    • Time
    • Movies
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    • Pileggi
    • Movie
    • Wiseguy
    • Director
    • Martin
    • Greatest
  • martin scorsese
    • Wanted
    • Pileggi
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    • Henry's
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    • Warner
    • Wiseguy
    • Also
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    • One
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  • film adaptation
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    • Goodfellas
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    • Goodfellas
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Goodfellas, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Goodfellas with Cast. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Goodfellas — Cast · splits 187 ⟂ 40
Goodfellas — Production · splits 188 ⟂ 39
Goodfellas — Reception · splits 195 ⟂ 32
Goodfellas — Overview · splits 197 ⟂ 30
Goodfellas — Legacy · splits 197 ⟂ 30
Goodfellas — Plot · splits 200 ⟂ 27
Goodfellas — Release · splits 214 ⟂ 13
Goodfellas — Accolades · splits 216 ⟂ 11
Goodfellas — Bibliography · splits 223 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Goodfellas

Nodes227
Edges226
Triples194
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008811
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Goodfellas to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Legacy, Literary Connections & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Goodfellas · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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