The director of Lost, Damon Lindel also created a supernatural drama series called The Leftovers. List of TV Shows Like LostĬast: Carrie Coon, Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman and Margaret Qualley Lost was inspired by the movie Castaway and became one of the most expensive pilots to be shot at the time! Lost continues to be appreciated for its originality in storytelling and dynamic character arcs. Even though it's a large ensemble cast, most of the characters receive a justifiable personal arch. That's what makes them such good companion films imo.The use of cliffhangers at the end of each episode of Lost kept the viewers on the edge of their seats, desperately craving for the next episode to come. The two films together, I think, detail the lives of two different men who found themselves in and out of the mob world, and how they each come out of it with vastly differing outlooks. By contrast, Ace in Casino reflects on his time in vegas as an old man, still getting work, with a good house and a family, and in the end pretty grateful for everything he has left as the film fades out, slow classical music sending him off as he remarks 'Why ruin a good thing?'.

I think the endings to both films are a perfect contrast: At the end of Goodfellas, Henry gets out of everything pretty unscathed with his family, even after ratting out all his friends - and after all that, he has the audacity to bitch about shit as inconsequential as spaghetti, and he's rather appropriately sent off into the credits by a grating whiny cover of 'My Way', which captures his total inability to grow or change or move on, and his pathetic nature by the end of the story.

Casino and Goodfellas are such good companion pieces.

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