There, after creating a car-alarm diversion, he gained access and held Conklin and Nicky Parsons at gunpoint.The film""s title was a vague reference toGulliver""s Travels(Jonathan Swift""s satirical 1726 tale of Lemuel Gulliver""s fanciful journey into strange, unknown worlds of Lilliputians, Brobdingnags, Houyhnhnms, and Laputians).]Paul ""Taxi Driver"" Schrader and Mardik ""Mean Streets"" Martin contributed the superb (and un-nominated) screenplay hat was loosely based on Jake La Motta""s book of the same name - it chronicled the boxer""s own rise and tragic, self-destructive, violent fall.Gus: You know, sometimes I can""t tell s--t from shinola, Doc.What was all that you just said?Beth: She intended the book to be her alibi.Dr.Lamott: Correct.Beth: She""s going to say: Do you think I""d be dumb enough to kill anyone in the exact way I described in my book? I wouldn""t do that because then I""d know I""d be the suspect.g., the mob, the commissioner, he police, and everyday citizens), and the enormous price that is paid to find justice.