C-light said:
mafia movie
Are you talking about Goodfellas? I remember the scene you say there word for word. The protagonist says something that seems to piss off the other guy (who's known for being a hothead, to the point that he's killed people who angered him before) and the scene gets more and more intense with him becoming visibly angrier (and as you said, everyone getting more and more nervous) as the protagonist tries to deescalate the situation, with the protagonist then realising the other guy was winding him up and laughing it off and everyone breathing a sigh of relief and laughing
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