Editing Goodfellas (section)

=== Soundtrack ===
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Although there is no incidental score in the film, Scorsese chose songs for the soundtrack that he felt obliquely commented on the scene or the characters.<ref name=Gilbert /> In any given scene, he used only music contemporary to or older than the scene's setting. According to Scorsese, many of the non-dialogue scenes were shot to playback. For example, he had "[[Layla]]" by [[Derek and the Dominos]] playing on the set while shooting the scene in which the dead bodies are discovered in the car, dumpster and meat truck. Sometimes, the lyrics of songs were inserted between lines of dialogue to comment on the action.<ref name=Thompson /> Some of the music Scorsese had written into the script, while other songs he discovered during the editing phase.<ref name=Kaplan />