Nice shot, part 2

Goodfellas
This is the shot that has been copied in a million different films by a million different directors. A great, long Steadicam shot that follows our main characters from the outside of a club to the inside of it.
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Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson borrowed the shot 7 years later for Boogie Nights.
(A huge part of PTA's visual style is from Scorsese, as evidenced by the next two shots below and how they relate...)
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And, while we're at it:
Scorsese and PTA: Goodfellas/Boogie Nights
An additional example of Scorsese's influence on Anderson.

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Scorsese used a quick dolly-in on the character snorting coke in Goodfellas.


PTA used this idea - with a slight variation - for the coke-snorting in Boogie Nights.