For daring to discuss the biggest taboo, this is probably Scorcese’s most truly daring movie.

You can take people’s heads off as long as they don’t take their pants off. But, as Scorcese’s fellow Sicilian-American Antonin Scalia will tell you, America only pretends to dislike violence.

After this, Scorsese would get a lot of credit for his “daring” displays of violence.

There’s a lot of movies with sex scenes, but there’s only a tiny handful of movies about sex, in all of its promise and anguish. What’s even harder is to show their sexual relationship without succumbing to either embarrassment or exploitation.

Most movies have a romance, but the hardest thing to show onscreen is two people really falling in love from scratch, as we get to see here, with each hesitant step.How it Came to be Underrated: Most Scorsese fans don’t dig deeper than Mean Streets in his early filmography, but this little-seen debut, four years in the making as his NYU thesis film, is a worthy companion to that film, with Keitel playing essentially the same character at an earlier point in his mixed-up life. When he picks up an understanding WASP-y girl, he finds his horizons broadening, but his neurotic sexual hang-ups threaten to ruin everything. The Story: A young guy in Little Italy drinks and hangs out with his loser friends, wondering where he’s going.

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