DeNiro was such a young punk in this movie. It’s hilarious to see this now and think this is the same guy who became a young Vito Corleane and Jimmy Conway. I love it
This movie gets categorized a lot with Goodfellas & Casino. Kind of like a Scorsese trilogy. The Departed fits in better with Casino and Goodfellas. This movie is a lot more like Taxi Driver. Not in plot but life and people in New York in the mid 70's.
The departed was trash and definitely not depressing. It was silly. The fact u couldn't take it seriously was the issue. I'm veey suprised to read someone say it wss serious and depressing
EL34BluGlo I agree. Scorsese fan for decades. Saw Departed and Casino in the theater. Both major disappointments; Irishman far exceeds them, but it’s even amazing for me to have lived long enough to see Mean Streets - long considered one of Scorsese’s great films - to be underrated compared to the DiCaprio collaborations. It shows the extent to which the 80s - with its flash, budgets, and distractions - won the film war.
@@spb7883 I wanted to like The Departed, it's not that its bad, just not in a class with Mean Streets. Nicholson was a casting mistake, Ray Winstone would have been much better in the role. Di Caprio- idk, I don't see what others see in him.He's not in the same league with Pesci or Keitel.
"Come on! Big Shot! Come on! DD, disappointed dunsky! Right! Asshole!" lololololololol... O my god, I'm crying and I cant breath! It's makes me laugh so hard lolol... One of the best De Niro Scenes of all time, from one of the most underrated movies of all time.
Mean Streets is one of Scorsese's greatest films. It has aged perfectly as a gritty, hang out, buddy film. It's his best for me right after Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas.
Harvey Keitel is the best part of this scene, despite being a small part. The way he flips at Johnny Boy at the end perfectly show the rage as well as the care and brotherly love he feels for Johnny. He's pissed at him because he loves him and is worried about him. The physicality of his anger is great, too. One of my favorite actors, easily.
everybody talks about harvey keitel and robert deniro in this movie and they ignore the amazing performance put in by david proval. early days of richie aprile, ayy
Rest in Peace, Richard Romanus, who played Michael the loan shark. I saw him in other roles including the Sopranos but I think that this was his best role.
Anytime I watch a De Niro's early performances I'm soooo stunned, he was amazing, he was the best and even if there are plenty of good actors now, nobody will reach that level. And everybody that would like to become an actor should study carefully each of his movies!!!top level, unbelievable career.
De Niro's screen presence is very, very powerful.... Doesn't surprise me at all, that he became a star....my personal favorite De niro movies are "The Deer hunter" "Taxi Driver" .... and "Bang The Drum Slowly" Brilliant performances...got to give it to him, he is a film legend...
Mines definitely Raging Bull that's what made me a fan of Scorsese I have seen that movie so many times from start to finish And I'm riveted every time I watched it it's just a masterpiece in filmmaking
A local neighborhood debt between friends that could have been temporally settled over $30... Johnny Boy decides to stake his life over it. Some people just can't help themselves
I have always thought it ironic that Robert DeNiro could play mostly thugs and lowlifes in movies and yet those very parts made him one of the most respected actors in the last 50 years. And I even agree, DeNiro is definitely a great actor deserving of that respect.
Fun fact: The real Paulie from "Goodfellas" said to his crew to go watch "Mean Streets", when it came out in 1973, he said "it's a movie about our lives", years later the same director would do a movie about his actual life, crazy.
@@ThePeoplesElboww "… I later read The Playboy Interview with Scorsese and he mentioned a story about another crew that had flocked to see Mean Streets. He said that while filming Goodfellas, Henry Hill told him that he and Paul Vario’s son had seen Mean Streets and loved it. They saw Paul Vario, who was a capo in the Lucchese crime family, and urged him to see the film. Vario, who rarely went to the movies, gave in and saw the film. Vario, who would years later be portrayed by Paul Sorvino in Scorsese’s Goodfellas, called his crew together and instructed them to see Mean Streets. Vario, a man of few words, simply told his astonished crew, "It’s about us." From Paul Davis On Crime "My Crime Beat Column: Martin Scorsese's Film World of Crime".
Johnny boy is to be blamed for his own death cause he never paid off his debt, moral of the story is never take loans from anybody, if you cant pay them back and if you also do the same as John, by making fool out of them, you might end up in a not so good place.
@@EvilTerry35 I'm pretty sure she was meant to be as cousin... . Yeah too bad they never made a sequel that would have been so cool.... well they're both alive they could do it now and that would be a real interesting.. hmmmm... I'm sure they'd be able to write some kind of a story for it
@@EvilTerry35 yeah it was pretty good for an early film... you never know in this day and age it would have been cool to show that Johnny had survived and maybe do some kind of a brief sequel something showing what happened in their lives or maybe then reconnecting briefly or whatever .
0:32 Ugh,. Here we go again.. the face of Tony is real.. All casts are beautifully done. Especially, Robert de niro acts like four year boy in this movie. Hate but unhatable..,
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
There's a reason why Michael will always be small time. He don't know how to actually squeeze people. Money isn't the only form of payment, jackets and shoes work well as do other forms of property.
Yes... as a way of shaming and depriving a person who won’t pay up. It also serves as a reminder that you can, if it comes down to it, take much more ie: hurt them. On the practical side however.., articles of clothing won’t recoup your money. Especially not in this case, where adjusted for inflation today, Johnny would owe Michael somewhere around 12k.
Scorsese, De Niro and co... Great movies in 70s, great movies in 80s, great movies in 90s, great movies in 2000s, (well, Scorsese's new favorite Leo Di Caprio took over a bit starting from that decade), great movies in 2010s, great movies in the 2020s so far. Absolutely amazing. People that really deserve that you find a time to watch basically almost everything they ever did.
DeNiro's character in this movie is the very definition of a crazy insane New Yorker, essentially this total, unhinged lunatic (makes me look sane & stable by comparison!)!
I feel this shows 2 dangerous men, one who is calm and collected and the other who is spontaneous. But the calm and collected is always the winner at times.
this kind of stuff that they're talking about was what Jimmy Cagney talked about when he received the AFI award "the touch of the gutter" that makes what he's saying seem so realistic and vulgar and foreshadowing the last scene.
Ali Mantwila robert de niro hizo este papel suyo, me encanta su expresión facial y corporal :') y la historia que maneja es fascinante, realmente esta es la memoria del barrio italiano en aquellos años :')
I remember an old interview with Richard Dreyfuss. After he saw De Niro in Mean Streets he asked, "Who IS this guy? And when will he get hit by a bus!"
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
@@TheKitchenerLeslie OMG they Do!! Only his brothers seems a lot younger. I read somewhere that DeNiro wasn’t crazy about him and broke his stones while making the movie. Because he wasn’t a true born and bred New Yorker?
@@anthonyD2365 Knowing De Niro, he was staying in character. If you watch that scene in King of Comedy where Jerry looks legitimately like he wants to kill Rupert, it's because De Niro would say the most horribly antisemitic things he could think of before the camera would begin to roll just to piss Jerry off.
DeNiro was such a young punk in this movie. It’s hilarious to see this now and think this is the same guy who became a young Vito Corleane and Jimmy Conway. I love it
He played Vito Corleone just one year later
This guy in his prime had A LOT of acting range. One of my fav actors, ever.
@@philippjansen7199 clicked to post this.
Don't forget Jake La Motta!
Also Noodles!!!
So weird that when this movie came out nobody ever heard of Scorsese, Keitel or De Niro.
Everyone starts somewhere at some point lol no one is born famous
@@redmoneymedia5630 The Queen was born famous :/
@@redmoneymedia5630 some people are born famous if their parents are..... royalty for example .
Keitel was in Taxi Driver
penury
Robert De Niro’s acting is organic and natural, can’t even tell he’s acting. Freakin beast!
Shelly Winters first saw Bobby doing a play and said he needs to be in movies
One-note scenery chewer.
The way he screams FUCKFACE is phenomenal
God of acting for a reason afterall.
Lol forreal
D D disappointed Dunskie !!
@@Toxxsicklemons 😂
The fierceness and energy in De Niro’s eyes in this movie is unmatched. He was there to make a statement and he did.
Yes. He wanted to prove himself. Didn't get select for Godfather a year before. The rest as they say is history. Arrival of the greatest actor
This movie gets categorized a lot with Goodfellas & Casino. Kind of like a Scorsese trilogy. The Departed fits in better with Casino and Goodfellas. This movie is a lot more like Taxi Driver. Not in plot but life and people in New York in the mid 70's.
The departed was trash and definitely not depressing. It was silly. The fact u couldn't take it seriously was the issue. I'm veey suprised to read someone say it wss serious and depressing
@@el34glo59 you're a complete fucken idiot
The Departed was a great Movie until the Ending where everyone shoots everybody
EL34BluGlo I agree. Scorsese fan for decades. Saw Departed and Casino in the theater. Both major disappointments; Irishman far exceeds them, but it’s even amazing for me to have lived long enough to see Mean Streets - long considered one of Scorsese’s great films - to be underrated compared to the DiCaprio collaborations. It shows the extent to which the 80s - with its flash, budgets, and distractions - won the film war.
@@spb7883 I wanted to like The Departed, it's not that its bad, just not in a class with Mean Streets. Nicholson was a casting mistake, Ray Winstone would have been much better in the role. Di Caprio- idk, I don't see what others see in him.He's not in the same league with Pesci or Keitel.
"Come on! Big Shot! Come on! DD, disappointed dunsky! Right! Asshole!" lololololololol... O my god, I'm crying and I cant breath! It's makes me laugh so hard lolol... One of the best De Niro Scenes of all time, from one of the most underrated movies of all time.
Truer words have never been said. He is the GOAT !!
Ddddeeeee dddeeee, disappointed dunceky! 🤣🤣🤣
Iconic line
Mean Streets is one of Scorsese's greatest films. It has aged perfectly as a gritty, hang out, buddy film. It's his best for me right after Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas.
Casino was pretty good too!
I agree but for me after hours was his absolute peak
After hours and king of comedy on that list too
Harvey Keitel is the best part of this scene, despite being a small part. The way he flips at Johnny Boy at the end perfectly show the rage as well as the care and brotherly love he feels for Johnny. He's pissed at him because he loves him and is worried about him. The physicality of his anger is great, too. One of my favorite actors, easily.
I absolutely agree, Harvey is great
and so little attention paid to him, I dare say... He's just as good as DeNiro and more durable...
Sam K Super underrated actor. His performance in Bugsy is great, too.
Sam K NOT A SMALL PART HES THE MAIN LEAD IN THE FILM
@@philipgonzalez7826 wtf right? this dude either hasn't seen the movie or doesn't know what a small part is
One of my favorite scenes of all time. The acting, the dialogue, the music, the vibe it has. It’s fantastic.
everybody talks about harvey keitel and robert deniro in this movie and they ignore the amazing performance put in by david proval. early days of richie aprile, ayy
I never would've recognized him. He was good in The Sopranos.
Robert Herrick David proval said in the early 2000s that some people would be scared of him, forgetting that he was playing a role in The Sopranos.
you're flexinnnng
That nervous sigh at 1:27
It’s THA JAAAAACKEEEIIIT!!! 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽
If Richie Aprile would of taken the gun away from Janice like that, he might still be alive
What are you going to do, are you gonna cry now?
This generation actors aren't even fit to tie his shoelaces. Miles ahead De Niro, the greatest ever. The LEGEND !!
*cough in his general direction
Dude, De Niro's probably taking a shit right now. Think abut that.
His shit also will be gold.
The shit will be liberal
Aman Joaquin Phoenix
That was all improvised by Robert.
The GOAT
omg for real? that’s awesome
Laura Juarez
"Robert?" So you're on 1st name terms with Bobby, are you?
No, it wasn’t. Like all movies, any improvisation by the actors in rehearsal is incorporated into the final shooting script.
I love how Tony reacts to Michael throwing the money at Johnny. He knew exactly what was going to happen
He seems like he has his head on straight and is pretty down to earth. I'm sure nothing bad happens to him later in the story
Martin Scorsese cameo at 0:21, men in the black suit, 4th person from the left. 1:45 the guy who takes a step back.
Saw this movie 15 times, and just now saw him when you mentioned it.
@@martitinkovich4489he plays the guy who shoots Johnny Boy
Wow haven't seen De Niro come this raw before. Fierce.
Watch the russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter
After a while most actors start dialing it in....if they were ever good in the first place.
He was young and hungry.
@@t.hussain921done. Mao! Mao!
Rest in Peace, Richard Romanus, who played Michael the loan shark. I saw him in other roles including the Sopranos but I think that this was his best role.
He was great
I first saw this movie in 1975. At the time I couldn't appreciate how great it was. It's much better now, looking back.
Now these were some fine actors! Hope one day we will see new kids act like this in movies.
We sure will
@@georgeguja6155 we surely won't
Aman yes we will
Actually we do
Maybe a couple of instagram, selfie-taking celebrity jerkoffs, but none like deniro
Anytime I watch a De Niro's early performances I'm soooo stunned, he was amazing, he was the best and even if there are plenty of good actors now, nobody will reach that level. And everybody that would like to become an actor should study carefully each of his movies!!!top level, unbelievable career.
Yes the greatest career an actor can ask for. His acting from 1973 to mid 80s was otherworldly.
@@Aman-nk5uqand then did goodfellas, awakenings and cape fear from 1990-1991. Got nominated for the last two the same year
"I'm a big shot" lmao my favorite part
I love Mean Streets! Perhaps the most original movie ever made. This scene is probably my favorite.
How is this movie the most original movie ever made. It’s just a gangster movie. That’s pretty common
I keep coming back to this scene for some reason.
@@jaimelannister1797 name 5 other gangster movies before it that are even slightly similar.
@@djstarsign True
@@jaimelannister1797and the beatles are just a pop band.
De Niro's screen presence is very, very powerful.... Doesn't surprise me at all, that he became a star....my personal favorite De niro movies are "The Deer hunter" "Taxi Driver" .... and "Bang The Drum Slowly" Brilliant performances...got to give it to him, he is a film legend...
His peak has definitely long passed though. Early days he was very excellent. Even by Goodfellas he wasn’t the strongest actor.
@@tristanholland6445
Wrong. He was the greatest until 2000
Mines definitely Raging Bull that's what made me a fan of Scorsese I have seen that movie so many times from start to finish And I'm riveted every time I watched it it's just a masterpiece in filmmaking
Robert de niro he is the best
good ? he's great he's the best actor ever greatest actor ever
Michael Caputo Both of you are correct
He was a jerkoff in this movie :D
Great actor, but in real life, a crazy degenerate scumbag.
Yeah
Richie never had the makings of a varsity bartender
I watched this scene over 50 times and still am so fascinated and laughing out loud. Fuck me that's the best movie scene ever now for me
"i put this up urrass" 😂😂😂😂
That's all he could've done with because it had no bullets.
@@FreshIngredient this comment made me lol
what a good actor robert, amazing
Good? He is the greatest ever.
Most original movie ever.
Undoubtedly
No not at all.
@@jaimelannister1797 oh be quiet you hardly know what you're talking about
@@shreever9473 it's actually a spiritual sequel to "who's that knocking at my door"
I think we all knew someone like Johnny boy
Yep
Too well ....
Gotta cut those guys off eventually... can’t all be like Charlie
My uncle
hehe
joykoff
Stay hit beautiful
Hot
Lol Jimmy Mook just looking on in the background
DD disappointed DUNSKY
Lmao
I love this movie, I love Robert De Niro, I love Harvey Keitel, I love Richard Romanus
Robert should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this scene alone
I like the part where Charlie sticks his finger in the fire and in his head he says, "Fine". It's like he saying 'Sure, I'll live in this hell'.
🎶"Is it in his eyes?!"🎶
It's amazing how great he is at switching personalities. Compare this to Travis Bickle. Now compare both to Rupert Pupkin
DeNiro looks like an ashamed kid as soon as they grab the gun from him. It’s subtle, but so well done
Yupp truly living in the moment. Scary good actor. None better
You can't help a man who refuses to help himself.
Johnny Boy had a death wish
1:38 through 2:18, me on the mic in GTA 5 online, fighting another player lol..
The other player : 1:22
😂😂😂
"Are you too good for this ten dallas?"
dalliss
Dallahs.. yaahh you too good 4 Dis...ahh haaa
‘Gotta love that Old Hollywood flare to Richard Romanus’ voice.
A local neighborhood debt between friends that could have been temporally settled over $30... Johnny Boy decides to stake his life over it. Some people just can't help themselves
Harvey is great at showing at exasperated he is by Johnny's behavior but still he can't bring himself to give up Johnny, and let him fend for himself.
Harvey is a great actor too. That goes without saying
I have always thought it ironic that Robert DeNiro could play mostly thugs and lowlifes in movies and yet those very parts made him one of the most respected actors in the last 50 years. And I even agree, DeNiro is definitely a great actor deserving of that respect.
Fun fact: The real Paulie from "Goodfellas" said to his crew to go watch "Mean Streets", when it came out in 1973, he said "it's a movie about our lives", years later the same director would do a movie about his actual life, crazy.
I didn’t know that! Where did you read that?
@@ThePeoplesElboww "… I later read The Playboy Interview with Scorsese and he mentioned a story about another crew that had flocked to see Mean Streets. He said that while filming Goodfellas, Henry Hill told him that he and Paul Vario’s son had seen Mean Streets and loved it. They saw Paul Vario, who was a capo in the Lucchese crime family, and urged him to see the film. Vario, who rarely went to the movies, gave in and saw the film.
Vario, who would years later be portrayed by Paul Sorvino in Scorsese’s Goodfellas, called his crew together and instructed them to see Mean Streets. Vario, a man of few words, simply told his astonished crew, "It’s about us."
From Paul Davis On Crime "My Crime Beat Column: Martin Scorsese's Film World of Crime".
@@time558 thank you !!!
Martin Scorsese has so many great movies, this is one of the great ones that gets overlooked.
Man for guys who were unknown at the time this movie is cool
yep......that's why they are stars now
This scence is inispiring everytime i watch it never gets old 🇮🇹
Love seeing de diro as the wild dude so punchable in this move 😂
0:44 when the vending machine spits your money out
Every scene of this movie is pure quality
Johnny boy is to be blamed for his own death cause he never paid off his debt, moral of the story is never take loans from anybody, if you cant pay them back and if you also do the same as John, by making fool out of them, you might end up in a not so good place.
He survived the shooting and was probably banished from the neighborhood, along with his sister and Charlie.
@@EvilTerry35 I'm pretty sure she was meant to be as cousin... . Yeah too bad they never made a sequel that would have been so cool.... well they're both alive they could do it now and that would be a real interesting.. hmmmm... I'm sure they'd be able to write some kind of a story for it
@@gardensofthegods That ship has sailed, more or less. For an early film, it was extraordinary.
@@EvilTerry35 yeah it was pretty good for an early film... you never know in this day and age it would have been cool to show that Johnny had survived and maybe do some kind of a brief sequel something showing what happened in their lives or maybe then reconnecting briefly or whatever .
All Dem guys is Mooks
Lim Burger “what’s a mook?”
That's David Proval over there. He played Richie Aprile in the Sopranos, fierce.
I never noticed that DeNiro and Richie Aprile were in it together,,,, This scene made everything...
2 people are DD's... disappointed dunskys
What does that term mean lol
Not just the d-list but the Double D list
Yeh dont ... yeh dont have the guts to use eht
0:32 Ugh,. Here we go again.. the face of Tony is real..
All casts are beautifully done. Especially, Robert de niro acts like four year boy in this movie. Hate but unhatable..,
man i love deniro n kietel in this movie so much.
The guy ( de niro as jonny boy) is phenomenal.
The legendary acting by the legendary actor
Greatest actor ever.
De Niro is born to be a gangster
For anyone who’s ever had a close childhood friend go down a bad path this movie hits hard.
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
And Vinny from hey good lookin!
@@punkrockjoanofarc "Charles Jefferson for Earth, Wind and Fire... and little brother."
2:20 Great Acting 🙌
I love how robert inmdediately realizes his position in the situation
Rover De Niro’s smile thooo gadaaaam
The greatest Italian scene all cinematography
I love this scene. This movieI This johnny boy
.incredible. Acting
DeNiro is wild af
I just realized that Scorsesse was always there
I'm not sure what you're saying
@@gardensofthegods in the scene you can see scorsese right there
He doesn’t make a cameo in this scene.
@@bobbyrobbyn1838 he is in the back and he left with michael
Mr. Tony theres no way to prove that lol
RIP to Richard Romanus!
Some very high level pure acting. Incredible
0:12-0:13 sociopath
My god I never knew much about this movie other than the name, but it looks quite compelling to watch.
“DD DISAPPOINTED DUNSKI”💀
There's a reason why Michael will always be small time. He don't know how to actually squeeze people. Money isn't the only form of payment, jackets and shoes work well as do other forms of property.
Yes... as a way of shaming and depriving a person who won’t pay up. It also serves as a reminder that you can, if it comes down to it, take much more ie: hurt them. On the practical side however.., articles of clothing won’t recoup your money. Especially not in this case, where adjusted for inflation today, Johnny would owe Michael somewhere around 12k.
@@mercoid Its a figure of speech. Jacket and shoes means pulling jobs for no pay til the debts paid off. Watch Goodfellas for a better explanation.
ain't nobody don't mess with no Robert DeNiro
I loved this scene you could feel the intensity
Disrespecting someone blatantly, loudly, and unapologetically in front of an audience is a great way to improve your own status.
Scorsese, De Niro and co... Great movies in 70s, great movies in 80s, great movies in 90s, great movies in 2000s, (well, Scorsese's new favorite Leo Di Caprio took over a bit starting from that decade), great movies in 2010s, great movies in the 2020s so far. Absolutely amazing. People that really deserve that you find a time to watch basically almost everything they ever did.
This is the best scene, in the history of cinema.
robert is so hot wtf
conversationstimulus straight men back in 70s wud have turned gay for him. He was that attractive and charming
DeNiro's character in this movie is the very definition of a crazy insane New Yorker, essentially this total, unhinged lunatic (makes me look sane & stable by comparison!)!
When you got hit about those 10 dollars he sounded like he just went straight up New Orleans!!lol
I feel this shows 2 dangerous men, one who is calm and collected and the other who is spontaneous. But the calm and collected is always the winner at times.
I'm blown away that Michael isn't played by Al Sapienza! But Tony is played by Richie Aprile!
this kind of stuff that they're talking about was what Jimmy Cagney talked about when he received the AFI award "the touch of the gutter" that makes what he's saying seem so realistic and vulgar and foreshadowing the last scene.
It's a good ten daaahluss
ROBERT DE NIRO.... VRAIMENT LE PLUS GRAND ACTEUR DE TOUT LES TEMPS 🎬🎥💕
DD disappoint the Dunsky! I love that line.
Una película excelente!!!Y unas interpretaciones colosales!!!
Ali Mantwila robert de niro hizo este papel suyo, me encanta su expresión facial y corporal :')
y la historia que maneja es fascinante, realmente esta es la memoria del barrio italiano en aquellos años :')
Nobody looks more gleeful and joyful holding a gun to someone like Robert De Niro
The prime of youth
I remember an old interview with Richard Dreyfuss.
After he saw De Niro in Mean Streets he asked,
"Who IS this guy? And when will he get hit by a bus!"
de niro will always be Travis Bickle to me in the 70s movies
Haha you knew Travis was unhinged when he took that poor girl on a first date to an X rated movie Lolol
The novel The Ghost of Little Italy is about Mr. Scorsese and The Kenmare Street murder. Great read
De Niros best performance!
Raging bull or taxi driver !
Top 3 for me at least with The Godfather Part II and The Deer Hunter providing tough competition.
Best scene!
Harvey Krisel, Robert De Niro and two actors from the Sopranos. Unbelievable
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
@@TheKitchenerLeslie OMG they Do!! Only his brothers seems a lot younger. I read somewhere that DeNiro wasn’t crazy about him and broke his stones while making the movie. Because he wasn’t a true born and bred New Yorker?
@@anthonyD2365 Knowing De Niro, he was staying in character. If you watch that scene in King of Comedy where Jerry looks legitimately like he wants to kill Rupert, it's because De Niro would say the most horribly antisemitic things he could think of before the camera would begin to roll just to piss Jerry off.
The best acting in human history.