Scorsese inherited this project from Steven Spielberg when the two swapped films. Spielberg got Schindler's List and Scorsese got Cape Fear. It would've been interesting to see how it would've turned out the other way around. As it turns out, Cape Fear is a film that follows Scorsese's usual themes, mainly guilt. Nick Nolte suffers from it, and Robert DeNiro helps to amplify the guilt. He attacks Nolte indirectly, letting Nolte inflict the most damaging on himself. In order to fight this loon, Nolte has to sink to his level, which is what DeNiro's Max Cady wanted. Scorsese's use of the camera is fluid and always moving. Those slow zooms on Cady, the whip cuts from one scene to another and the whole end sequence is a doozy. Bernard Herrman's great score is pumped through your speakers in Dolby sound and gives the film, a proper level of menace. Watch this instead of "The Fan." You won't be disappointed.