Paper Is Cheaper Than Film

Paper is Cheaper Than Film (2004)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

This is the shortest featurette on Warner's Special Edition of GOODFELLAS but it's one of the most interesting. If you know anything about Martin Scorsese then you know he likes to draw out his own storyboards as well as write certain notes on the screenplay that he will later use. This featurette runs about seven-minutes and features these various drawings. We will start off seeing the actual scene in question as it appears in the movie and then we'll see the drawing that Scorsese had done. If you've seen the TAXI DRIVER documentary, the cinematographer there talked about these various drawings that Scorsese would give him to work off of. We can see the same thing here as the drawings certainly aren't well-done or artistic but they just contain something that is so easy to pick up on. One of the best examples is the scene where Henry Hill beats the neighbor. Just take a look at the drawing and see the red traces that Scorsese put through it to show the violence. I think this featurette will be most appealing to fans of Scorsese rather than just general fans of the movie.