Early the next morning, Sean kneels in the Catholic church.A floor-level camera angle frames the colorful stained-glass windows at the end of the nave and above the altar.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.But first and foremost, I remember Mama.(looking up and reminiscing) I remember every Saturday night, I would sit at my desk by the attic window and write down in my diary all my innermost thoughts.In the post WWII era, three of the impassioned students, not yet identified, made an oblique reference (regarding their war-like attack upon the theatre""s seats) to the suicidal charge during the Crimean War ("Into the Valley of Death - Into the Jaws of Hell - Rode the 600"), memorialized in Alfred Lord Tennyson""s 1854 poemThe Charge of the Light Brigade.On the surface of the planet, survivors included Kirk, Chekov, Kalara, Bones and Spock who had escaped in separate pods - but the remainder of the crew (including Sulu and Uhura) were soon captured by Krall, and taken to his base of operations-headquarters for questioning by his soldiers.