Martin Scorsese ’s mobster classic Goodfellas has received a content warning from AMC Networks over “language and/or cultural stereotypes ”. Viewers who watch the 1990 film on AMC’s television channel or on their streaming service AMC+ will first see a message that reads: “This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers.” In a statement to the New York Post , AMC said that they first added the content warning to the film four years ago: “In 2020, we began adding advisories in front of certain films that include racial or cultural references that some viewers might find offensive.
” Michael Franzese, a one-time captain of the Colombo crime family, told the Post he was amused by the note. “We don’t need anyone protecting mob guys,” he said. “It’s crazy.
” Bo Ditel, a former NYPD officer who also played a policeman in Goodfellas was more put out, saying: “The f***ing political correctness has f***ing taken everything away. This is how life was back then. It was not a clean beautiful thing.
You can’t cleanse history. If you want to tell true history, you gotta tell it the way it is.” The warning that appears before Goodfellas is more detailed than the one that appears before Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 mob film The Godfather , which merely receives a standard “viewer discretion” warning covering “brief nudity, strong language and in.
