The Badfellas poster.
Badfellas is a movie advertisement found in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and mentioned in Grand Theft Auto Advance.
Description[]
It appears on a poster in the Red Light District of Portland, Liberty City (in Grand Theft Auto III) and at the InterGlobal Films studio (in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City) and can be seen vaguley in The Introduction (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) when CJ carjacks a man in the Red Light District.
The characters on the poster are (from left to right): Early beta renders of Salvatore Leone, Luigi Goterelli, Maria Latore, 8-Ball, Joey Leone and Toni Cipriani.
In Grand Theft Auto Advance, if the player decides to kill the film actor Biff Rock in the mission Scorned Lover, the protagonist Mike will say "You shouldn't have cheated on Mary in Badfellas, Biff. Reap the reward!," stating that Biff Rock is an actor in the movie.
Influences[]
Badfellas is an obvious reference to the 1990 movie, Goodfellas which includes Ray Liotta, the voice of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City protagonist, Tommy Vercetti, as Henry Hill; Debi Mazar, who voices Maria, also appears in Goodfellas as Sandy; Frank Vincent, who voices Salvatore, appears in Goodfellas as the mobster "Billy Batts"; Samuel L. Jackson, who voices Frank Tenpenny, also appears in Goodfellas as Stacks Edwards.