When a stranger gets into it with Robert De Niro’s character in “Casino,” Nicky picks up the pen that started the confrontation and abruptly ends it.Ģ. There are harder impacts and higher falls, plus another ill-fated run-in with a blowtorch - except this time an explosion follows as he dunks his head in a toilet filled with flammable liquid.Ī hallmark of Pesci’s characters is fierce loyalty (at least at first), and they’d always rather go too far than not far enough in defending their friends.

Showing a cruelty that knows no limits, Nicky beats Vegas into submission, with no event gaining him more notoriety than the time he put a guy’s head in a vise.īack for revenge in 1992’s “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” Pesci’s Harry only catches more abuse this time around. The 1995 movie puts Pesci in Las Vegas, where he wreaks havoc as mob enforcer Nicky Santoro.

“I’ll squash your f- head like a grapefruit.”Īs violent as “Goodfellas” is, “Casino” is worse. As a crook named Harry in the 1990 original, Pesci takes a blowtorch to the scalp and a paint can to the face between varied slips and falls.ĥ. While hilarious in “My Cousin Vinny,” Pesci also gets laughs in his two “Home Alone” movies, showing his knack for physical comedy as he navigates a set of traps. Believing he would be made himself, Pesci’s character goes to a home with a couple men who unceremoniously whack him. Tommy leaves behind a wake of destruction throughout “Goodfellas,” and it’s his unauthorized hit on a made man at the beginning of the film that eventually brings about his demise. Things escalate later, when he has says, “Why don’t you go f- yourself, Tommy?” First, the kid unintentionally disrespects Tommy by ignoring his drink order, an act that is repaid with a bullet in the foot. In “Goodfellas,” Tommy doesn’t let just anyone bust his balls, a snotty young bar employee least of all. “I’ll dig the f- hole … What is it, the first hole I dug?”

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