![]() ![]() It’s about guilt, sin and trying to find some sort of salvation so that you can be at peace with yourself, so that you don’t either kill yourself or other people.” The idea was a kind of rebirth, the possibility of redemption. “My picture’s really about that process, not boxing. The ring is a kind of madness, and it seems to me that the man had to go back through his mother’s womb again in order to achieve some kind of sanity. But it gave me a clue how to make the picture and it made me see things more clearly. Maybe it just means not sufficiently insane. “Don’t ask me what that means,” says Scorsese, “perhaps it has sexual undertones, perhaps it hasn’t. “No, you couldn’t,” said LaMotta, “You’re not sufficiently queer.” ![]() He recalls a time when he was with LaMotta in a bar and horsing around with him. Norman Mailer, for whom the fight game holds much more fascination, says that LaMotta, who went from down-and-out to world champion and back to down-and-out, was underrated both as a fighter and as a man. ![]()
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