Differences Between The Goodfellas Book And Movie

The movie I chose, “The Goodfellas”, was adapted from a novel. The novel in which it’s adopted from is called “Wiseguy”. The author is Nicholas Pileggi and the book was published in 1986, four years before the movie “The Goodfellas” was created (MET). However; the book and novel have some differences throughout one another. I found it interesting as I watched the movie before I read the book “Wiseguy” and I did not know the differences until after I read them. It turns out there are quite a few differences in the movie in comparison to the book.
When comparing length to length the book contains 256 pages. From my opinion that is the average amount of pages in a book. Referring to the book in which the class had to read Fight Club, when reading

A scene added in the movie that wasn’t in the book was; the honorable “How I am funny” scene. The scene was added due to a recommendation by the actor Joe Pesci. A changed scene that is in the book is when Henry goes on a double date with Paulie’s son rather than in the movie, where Henry went on a double date with Tommy.
Another thing I noticed was there were some rearrangements from the book to the movie. A reason why this would occur was to follow from the changes of scenes. The rearrangement during this film was when Henry had his first court date while in the movie it showed Paulie being there however; in the novel he wasn’t due to serving a prison sentence.
Lastly both these stories involve first person accounts. The experiences were from the gangster Henry Hill. Throughout both explanations, the movie and book, he explains his life and hardship of being a gangster. The difference between these two first-person experiences was one was visualization while the other was trying to adapt an understanding. The movie really touched up on the understanding after reading the book and rewatching the movie. It let the viewers understand the setting, along with the personality in a visual