in Something Wild, the 80s “yuppie nightmare” movie with Wall Street wimp Jeff Daniels getting way out of his depth with the seductively impulsive Audrey played by Melanie Griffith. He has a very uneasy moment with her violent-criminal ex-husband, played by Liotta who – without revealing his own history with Audrey — insidiously asks him how she is in bed and boorishly remarks: “She looks like she could fuck you right in half.” That line reveals how close he is to violence.
Liotta gives an exquisitely self-admiring performance in the famous “single take” Copacabana scene in Goodfellas with his date and future wife Karen – with the Crystals’ Then He Kissed Me on the soundtrack – taking her to the club and guiding her past the losers who have to wait on line outside to get in, down the side entrance, through the kitchen and out into the showroom.
Liotta did other excellent roles after this, often playing corrupt cops or law enforcement officers. He has a thoroughly macabre role in the 2001 Hannibal sequel, playing a crooked Justice Department staffer, who winds up staying conscious while Dr Lecter pokes around in his exposed brain.There were tough and plausible roles in Blow , Narc and The Place Beyond the Pines .
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