Goodfellas Never Showed How Psychotic Tommy Really Was | Joe Pesci Tells The TRUTH

Goodfellas Never Showed How Psychotic Tommy Really Was | Joe Pesci Tells The TRUTH 🚨 MORE GOODFELLAS INSIGHTS:    / @goodfellasrewind   🚨 Goodfellas gave you the funny scene.Tommy at the table. Henry telling him he is funny. The room going still. Funny how. Funny like a clown. Joe Pesci holding the silence for three seconds longer than any other actor would have held it. The whole table frozen between laughter and genuine fear.It is one of the greatest scenes in American cinema. And it is the moment that is furthest from the truth of who Tommy DeSimone actually was.Goodfellas needed Tommy to be funny. It needed the volatility to have a comic register — the explosive reactions to perceived disrespect, the small man with something to prove, the particular social electricity of a person you cannot quite predict. That version of Tommy works for the film. It gives Joe Pesci an Academy Award performance. It gives the audience a character they can follow and fear and occasionally laugh at across two and a half hours.What it does not give you is what Henry Hill actually said about Tommy DeSimone when he sat down with federal investigators and Nicholas Pileggi and later in his own published accounts and described the man he had known since they were teenagers running stolen cigarettes through construction sites in Queens. Hill did not call Tommy volatile. He did not call him dangerous. Every man in that world was dangerous.He called him a pure psychopath. A homicidal maniac. And he described a specific quality to Tommy's violence that distinguished it from everything else Hill had observed in thirty years inside the Lucchese world — not the professional violence of men who killed because the life required it, but something that operated independently of circumstance, independently of logic, and independently of any professional framework that the men around him could identify or understand.In this video we go further than Goodfellas ever did.We go through the real psychological profile of Thomas Anthony DeSimone — what shaped it, what produced it, and what it actually looked like in practice across seventeen years and a body count that investigators placed at a minimum of thirty people. We go through the first murder, committed when Tommy was sixteen years old, and what the specific circumstances of that killing reveal about the interior architecture of the man the film turned into a comedy character. We go through the pattern across the career — the killings that had professional justifications and the killings that had none and what the ratio between those two categories tells you about who Tommy actually was. We go through what Henry Hill witnessed at close range across a decade of shared criminal life and what it did to Hill psychologically to watch it. And we go through the induction trap — the empty house, the two words, the single shot — and what the specific quality of Tommy's final reaction tells you about the one thing the man who killed thirty people in seventeen years had apparently never fully calculated.Goodfellas made Tommy DeSimone one of the most memorable characters in cinema history.The real Tommy DeSimone was something the film never had the courage to fully show you.Henry Hill knew what it was. He spent thirty years trying to find the words for it.This video is those words. #Goodfellas #TommyDeSimone #JoePesci #HenryHill #Mafia #TrueCrime #MobHistory #GoodfellasTrueStory #OrganizedCrime #Lucchese #NewYorkMafia #MafiaHistory #FBIFiles #UntoldStory #TrueCrimeCommunity #MobTalks #GoodfellasFacts #TommyDeSimoneRealStory #Psychopath #JimmyBurke #PaulVario #TheTruthAboutTommy #GoodfellasDarkTruth #MobPsychology #TrueCrimeHistory