Goodfellas

[Lennon]

This is one of my favourite films ever, but something puzzles me and I'm hoping someone can tell me the reason behind it. At the very end when Henry's just about to get nicked, Lois (the drug runner) uses the phone at the house to call the airline - she takes the tickets out of her bag and there is a black strip across the tickets, like the info on them is being censored. Why??

[beenee]

I presume the black strip censored the name of the airline company printed on the tickets. It keeps the flow authentic compared to making up a name. And the producers save themselves from the company suing them for using their name in a drug-smuggling plot. It's similar to covering people's eyes with a black strip to protect their anonymity.

[Lennon]

I figured it would be something like that, but having never really seen it in other films it just stood out to me, but yeah I guess you're right beenee. Cheers!