Martin Scorsese was the second great Italian-American director to make a breakthrough. In contrast to CAPPOLA, the son of established middle-class parents, Scorsese came from a poor family of Sicilian immigrants to New York. He grew up in Little Italy and had first hand experience of life on the mean streets: the claustrophobic narrowness, the co existence of the catholic church and the Mafia. The open and respressed aggression.
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