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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