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Another scene like this is in Goodfellas. The shot is just 30 seconds of Deniro sitting at the bar by himself smoking while Sunshine of Your Love plays. Sitting there, he looks ready to jump off the bar stool and rip your guts out.
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This is the moment that DeNiro has the brilliant idea that the best way to keep these idiots from tipping off the cops (they were all buying mink coats and Cadillacs) is to whack them all. Watch it again, here, in a YouTube clip titled
"'Jimmy decides to whack his gang' shot".
You can almost read his thoughts. "Hey, wait a second--I can just whack all of them! Yeah, that might work! Phew, that solves everything. Hey, I'm pretty smart for thinking that! I'm going to savor this moment (takes huge drag on cigarette). Ah, I feel better now..."
When you see that right eyebrow shoot up, and the twinkle in his eye at the 0:10 mark, that's the "Yeah, that would solve everything!" moment.
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Perhaps
Scorcese made it too subtle.
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