It's a great one, but it doesn't even really rank in the Top 10 (I do include it in the breakdown of fifteen of my favorites I'm sharing on Monda, though). The Copa sequence is brilliant and certainly a technical challenge, don't get me wrong, but it's easily surpassed in that and narrative value by, say, either of the tracking shots in CHILDREN OF MEN or the ones in BOOGIE NIGHTS and the Dunkirk sequence in ATONEMENT.
Let’s not overthink this. The Copa from Goodfellas. That’s it.
It's a great one, but it doesn't even really rank in the Top 10 (I do include it in the breakdown of fifteen of my favorites I'm sharing on Monda, though). The Copa sequence is brilliant and certainly a technical challenge, don't get me wrong, but it's easily surpassed in that and narrative value by, say, either of the tracking shots in CHILDREN OF MEN or the ones in BOOGIE NIGHTS and the Dunkirk sequence in ATONEMENT.