They want to hurt you." Cornelius passed away (with a smile on his face) when his father told him something he had already told him earlier: "One day, you are going to be as tall as a king.He faints into a chair at the sight of food.He has the perfect media profile to impersonate "John Doe":He""s perfect, a baseball player.What could be more American?...that face is wonderful.They""ll believe him...That""s our man, he""s made-to-order.[A desire to return to baseball, after receiving the promise of a contract to have his injured pitching arm repaired by "bone-setter Brown," is the main motivation for Willoughby to accept his assignment and engage in the deal - it shows that he is corruptible.Director Martin Scorsese was convinced by actor Robert De Niro, with whom he had madeMean Streets (1973),Taxi Driver (1976), andNew York, New York (1977), that he film had to be made, after he was given La Motta""s biography by De Niro in 1974." In the hallway as Vettori leaves, he approaches Rico and advises: "You take it easy with that cannon of yours...It""s just as though you were bound o her in some way...as I am to you.As she was to Miller."Philip: "As every human being is to something or other."After the birth of Mildred""s child in the hospital, she had a cold reaction to her baby fathered out-of-wedlock with Emile: "Funny-looking little thing, isn""t it? I can""t believe it""s mine.