AMC Networks have given Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas a content warning about “language and/or cultural stereotypes.”
The advisory was added to the beginning of the 1990 film, which occasionally plays on AMC’s television channel as well as their streaming service, AMC+. The full message 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.”
AMC added the content warning to Goodfellas in 2020, as well as to several other films — but now, some folks are shocked to discover the message four years later. “In 2020, we began adding advisories in front of certain films that include racial or cultural references that some viewers might find offensive,” an AMC representative told the New York Post.
While AMC is certainly correct in their assessment of foul language in the 1990 classic, “the cultural stereotypes” named in the content warning likely refer to the film’s portrayal of Italian-American and Irish-American mobsters as well as the normalized misogyny of the time period.
Meanwhile, actual former mobster Michael Franzese told the New York Post that the content warning was a little funny: “We don’t need anyone protecting mob guys. It’s crazy,” said Franzese.
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