The aggressive gang members leave the fenced-in playground and cross he tenement street.In the famous, dazzling opening sequence, they gradually break into a highly-stylized dance and then burst into a daring, high-stepping sequence - an exhilarating, inventive, visual ballet of pirouettes, vigorous athletic moves, and running jumps that symbolizes heir dominance and energy - they are readying themselves for a gang brawl.In early July, 1932, Z.Smith Reynolds, the youngest 20 year-old son of the cigarette patriarch R.J.Reynolds, was suspiciously murdered with a gunshot wound to the head at the family estate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.He told himself: "Gotta stay awake" as he opened the medicine cabinet to take an anti-sleeping pill.When he had a momentary sighting of Freddy Krueger behind him in a mirror reflection, he dropped the only pill down the sink.White letters on a black background, a title card reads:New York City 1964The camera pans down a sign outside the Barbizon Plaza Theatre: "An Evening With Jake La Motta Tonight 8:30.