Scorsese's film was positioned in the middle of his Italian-American trilogy of films, betweenMean Streets (1973)andGoodFellas (1990).Now, I want to tell you, madam, that with this insurance policy you are provided for your little ones and for your old age, which will be here in a couple of weeks now - if I'm any judge of horse flesh.He also expects to put his Army gun training o good use.And Eddie wishes to return to his pre-war job as an auto-mechanic in a garage, save his money, and one day have a shop of his own: "That's my idea of heaven, boys.He remembered how he offered a diamond ring and proposed to Andrea (telling her: "I'm changing the plan" and kissing her, as hundreds of bats flew into the air).