>>213330451>>213330530He was aping Scorsese, Boogie Nights is literally just Goodfellas with pornstars instead of mobsters, like carbon-copied themes, structure and style, with the ending of Raging Bull tacked on
It's probably the best of the Goodfellas ripoffs though, lots of filmmakers tried to rip it off and didn't do it nearly this well. Hell even Scorsese himself didn't rip it off quite as well with Wolf of Wall Street