An over-the-shoulder shot, revealing that Henry is in fact watching the mob and shows a car pulling outside. The scene shows several cut-in shots of the characters' expensive and brash clothing and jewellery, portraying their glamourous lifestyle. A tilt-shot is used to look up at Frankie Carbone, stepping out of the car, from his expensive looking shoes, up to his face – giving the cliche impression that the character is someone of importance. A mid-shot is shown of each of the gangsters, as an intentional, but discrete introduction for each gangster to the storyline. A wide-shot of all of the gangsters laughing between themselves. This soon changes when a medium close-up shot of 'Paulie' - a leader of the Lucchese crime family – is shown exiting the café to see what the laughter was about and the others go silent, showing the comparison of Paulie's intimidating power and the mobsters' inferior submissiveness. In this clip, we see that Henry approves of the superior lifestyle of a gangster and their attitude against the law. His naive perspective on how 'good' that life is, blinds him to see the violent side of that lifestyle of criminality and the law.
In this clip, the use of sound is used in many ways to establish a time period and to reflect the current mood of the scene. The opening however uses the effect of a sound-bridge, with Tony Bennett's version of the song Rags to Riches, a song which relates to Henry and to the film in an oblique way. The lyrics show that Henry had an idealised view of the life he was living and the life that he would later possess, when he is in the mafia:.
"Whose golden dreams will not come true?.
Or will I go from rags to riches.
My fate is up to you".
This diegetic music has established a time period and the tone of the singer has given us a calm and relaxed mood. The music fades slightly as Henry, the narrator is speaking through subjective dialogue, portraying his appreciation of American gangsters.