About this episode

The episode discusses Martin Scorsese's film Mean Streets and its significance in the crime movie genre.

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we head into early Scorsese territory with Mean Streets, starring Harvey Keitel as Charlie and Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy. It is New York, 1973: Catholic guilt, bar-room bravado, small-time gangster pressure, unpaid debts, family loyalty, loaded silences, unloaded guns, and the unmistakable beginning of the Scorsese crime-movie language that would later explode into Goodfellas. What we covered The famous opening idea: “You don’t make up for your sins in ch...

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Host: Bad Dads

Topics covered

• Scorsese
• Mean Streets
• crime movies
• Catholic guilt
• gangster pressure

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mean Streets, Goodfellas

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