When Mildred has finished her gargling, toothbrushing and beauty routine, she leaves the bathroom.His wife Amelia enters to ask the logical question, making him look like an idiot by pointing to the now-vacant bathroom mirror:Amelia: What kind of tomfoolery are you up to now?Harold: I""m shaving.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...Sure, yes, yes, he""s a millionaire, you know, like all the Yanks.But he""s eccentric.Oh, he is eccentric.What till I show ya...His bag to sleep in, a sleeping bag, he calls it.The song, equating Sean Thornton (or his grandfather who ""died in Australia...in a penal colony"") with the wild colonial boy Jack Dugan, continues:At the early age of sixteen years, he left his native home.Fairly independent.Midge: Hmm, mmm.Well, why don""t you go away for a while?Scottie: You mean to forget? Oh now, Midge, don""t be so motherly.In the trolls"" nearby stench-filled cave, they found a hoard of treasure, including gold and stolen legendary sword blades forged in the Elven kingdom of Gondolin in the First Age.