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Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.
Great nicknames and fists aside, I began to recognize these Jewish gangsters as fools and thugs who preyed on their own communities, robbed the Jewish poor, and murdered their own people.
Scenes like the ones in the social club and in the gangsters' homes have a real comic authority.
, the free-lancing gangsters played by De Niro and Joe Pesci) were allowed to run things without interference.
The entire heart of that character was his utter fearlessness at the prospect of dying; Rocky "goes yellow" only so that his reputation will be sullied among the youthful wannabe gangsters who idolize him.