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Raging Bull is a 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese, adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from the memoir Raging Bull: My Story. It is commonly ranked as one of the greatest films ever made. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a temperamental and paranoid but tenacious boxer who alienates himself from his friends and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, La Motta's brother and manager, and Cathy Moriarty as his abused wife. The film features supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto (who was eventually to play the character "Coach" on the TV sitcom Cheers), Theresa Saldana, and Frank Vincent, who has starred in many films directed by Martin Scorsese. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America award winning American film director, writer and producer and founder World Cinema Foundation. ...
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Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a screenwriter and film director, renowned for his characters that fall into desperation while their world crumbles around them. ...
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Cathy Moriarty (born November 29, 1960, in New York City) is an American actress. ...
Joseph Francesco DeLores Eliot Pesci (born February 9, 1943), best known as Joe Pesci, is an American Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster, mafia thug, or a grouchy funnyman. ...
Frank Vincent (born Frank Vincent Gattuso on August 4, 1939) is an Italian-American actor. ...
Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 - February 12, 1985) was an American actor, known primarily for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the long-running sitcom Cheers. ...
Theresa Saldana (born August 20, 1954) is an American actress, best known for her work in motion pictures and television. ...
Thelma Schoonmaker (born January 3, 1940) is an American Academy Award-winning film editor who has worked with director Martin Scorsese for over thirty-five years. ...
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Raging Bull can refer to: Raging Bull, a 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese. ...
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (IPA: AmE: ; Ita: []) (born November 17, 1942) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America award winning American film director, writer and producer and founder World Cinema Foundation. ...
Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a screenwriter and film director, renowned for his characters that fall into desperation while their world crumbles around them. ...
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Giacobbe La Motta (born July 10, 1921), better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed The Bronx Bull and The Raging Bull, is a former boxer who was world middleweight champion and whose life has been as controversial outside the ring as it was inside it. ...
Joseph Francesco DeLores Eliot Pesci (born February 9, 1943), best known as Joe Pesci, is an American Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster, mafia thug, or a grouchy funnyman. ...
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Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 - February 12, 1985) was an American actor, known primarily for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the long-running sitcom Cheers. ...
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Production
Raging Bull was a project brought to Martin Scorsese by his friend and collaborator Robert De Niro. De Niro discovered the book upon which the film is based and wanted to play the title character. The initial screenplay adaptation was written by Scorsese's friend Mardik Martin, who had co-written Mean Streets. It was reportedly a Rashomon-style drama with many different points of view being presented. In the end, this approach was abandoned in favor of a more straightforward narrative written by Paul Schrader, who had written Taxi Driver. Studio executives at United Artists were initially reluctant to finance the project as they feared that the extreme profanity and violence in the screenplay would draw an "X" from the MPAA ratings board, thus the final draft of the screenplay was written, uncredited, by De Niro and Scorsese themselves. Mean Streets (1973) is an early Martin Scorsese film starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. ...
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Scorsese has acknowledged that he was deeply involved in drugs before the making of the film. He has stated that Robert De Niro saved his life by insisting on Scorsese's continued involvement in the production. Scorsese has also claimed that the raw emotional quality of the film and its theme of redemption were a result of his struggle to recover his life through the production of the film.
The movie was shot in two parts. The majority of the film, including all the boxing scenes, was shot first. Following this, the production was shut down for several months, during which De Niro gained the weight necessary to play Jake LaMotta in the latter part of the film. De Niro put on 60 pounds in mid-shooting to turn himself from the young, muscular boxer La Motta into the fat, washed up older La Motta. This is particularly visible in one of the last scenes in the film, where La Motta is sleeping with his shirt open, exposing a sizeable belly. According to Scorsese, these scenes were shot quickly and with a minimum of takes because the physical strain they caused De Niro was so evident. De Niro's extreme method acting was a notable example of a physical metamorphosis in modern cinema. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman decided to shoot the film in black and white, despite initially having fears it would make it seem pretentious. This was done for reasons of period authenticity (Chapman and Scorsese remembered 1940s boxing bouts as black and white photographs in magazines) and to differentiate the film from several other boxing pictures which had recently been released, most especially the Rocky series. Michael Chapman (b. ...
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Scorsese disliked the way previous boxing films shot the fight scenes from a spectator's view, hence insulating the audience from the brutality of the ring. Throughout the filming, Scorsese's mantra remained "stay in the ring", he was determined to capture the raw violence of every punch and make the viewer feel everything the boxers did. Each intricately choreographed boxing sequence would have a different style reflecting LaMotta's varying states of mind during the different fights. Scorsese drew every shot of these on paper before the shooting, and both he and Chapman have commented on the difficulties caused by the elaborate setups.
The film was edited in Scorsese's apartment in New York City, mostly at night. Reportedly, Scorsese was obsessively fastidious during post-production. He and his friend, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, labored an unusually long time over the editing and the film's complex soundtrack. The unusual care dedicated to post-production caused considerable friction with the film's producers, who felt Scorsese was being unnecessarily slow. Scorsese took unusual care during post-production because he was convinced that Raging Bull would be his last film and he did not want to compromise what would be his final project. However, Scorsese also viewed the film as a kind of cinematic rebirth. He chose to end the film with a personal dedication to his college film professor, Haig Manoogian, "with love and resolution." Manoogian had helped produce Scorsese's first feature film.
Plot The film begins with Jake LaMotta late in his life practicing his stand-up comic routine, then flashes back to his early boxing career. Jake (De Niro) is a talented and determined fighter from the Bronx, and his brother Joey (Pesci) is his manager. Jake slowly climbs the ladder to the top of the boxing world (due to numerous setbacks mostly involving his personal life and weight problems), and courts Vicki (Moriarty) a 15-year-old girl he meets in his neighborhood. After his first wife leaves, he starts a relationship with her which eventually leads to marriage and children. from the movie Raging Bull. ...
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As a boxer, Jake is promising but headstrong. He takes punches well, and fights with passion, but he refuses to curry favor with the old guard who control boxing. To compete for the middleweight title he is forced to throw a match to Billy Fox, which grants him the right to fight for the title. He wins, and defends the title against challengers, which puts him at the top of his career.
However, Jake becomes increasingly jealous of Vicki, and ultimately convinces himself of her infidelity with Joey. Enraged, he lashes out violently on his brother, who then abandons him. LaMotta loses his title to his rival Sugar Ray Robinson and retires from boxing a few years later due to his weight problems, and becomes a modestly successful stand-up comedian and nightclub owner. His wife finally divorces Jake, taking custody of his children, while LaMotta ends up in jail for abetting statutory rape. In jail he punches his cell walls and pounds his head against them with despair. After being released from jail, Jake tries to mend his relationship with Joey. The film ends as it began with Jake practicing his routine in front of the mirror. Sugar Ray Robinson, born Walker Smith Jr. ...
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Reception Raging Bull was initially given a mixed reception. Scorsese had held an advanced screening for the film's producers and a few others at an MGM screening room. After the film had finished and the lights in the screening room came on, it is said there was a stunned silence in the room as if 'the audience had lost all powers of speech'. Many critics, however, were repelled by the film's violence and its unsympathetic central character. Although its cinematography and editing were universally praised, some saw the film as an empty exercise in style. Produced on a budget of $18 million, the film grossed $23 million.[1] Its gritty realism seemed out of place in a cultural atmosphere in which the fantasy films of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas dominated the film industry. MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...
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De Niro, who gained 60 pounds for a portion of his role, won the Academy Award for Best Actor, his second Academy Award following his win for 1974's The Godfather: Part II and his first for a leading role (De Niro recieved the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Godfather: Part II). Thelma Schoonmaker won the Academy Award for Best Editing, whose style was far different from fight scenes in other boxing films, such as the Rocky series. Raging Bull was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci), Best Supporting Actress (Cathy Moriarty), Best Cinematography (Michael Chapman), Best Sound (Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz), Best Director and Best Picture.[2] The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
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The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It is fourth on the AFI's tenth aniversary list of the 100 greatest American movies and fifth on the Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. A two-CD soundtrack was released in 2005, long after the movie was released, because of earlier difficulties receiving permissions for many of the songs, which Scorsese selected from his childhood memories growing up in New York. The movie poster was painted by famous artist, Kunio Hagio[3] The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. ...
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By the end of the 1980s, Raging Bull had cemented its reputation as a modern classic. It was voted the best film of the 1980s in numerous critics' polls and is regularly pointed to as both Scorsese's best film and one of the finest American movies ever made. Several prominent critics, among them Roger Ebert, declared the film to be an instant classic and the consummation of Scorsese's earlier promise. Ebert proclaimed it the best film of the 1980s, and the fourth greatest film of all time.[4] Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...
Although nominated for several Oscars, the film won only for editing and for Robert De Niro's lead performance. When De Niro accepted his Oscar, he thanked Jake La Motta, "even though he is suing us." Scorsese lost to Robert Redford for best director (Ordinary People). United Artists was distracted by its worsening financial troubles in the wake of Heaven's Gate and could not adequately promote the film for awards. Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. ...
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Analysis Raging Bull is a thematically rich film and was voted #4 Greatest movies of all time on AFI's 100 years...100 Movies. Roger Ebert in his Great Movies entry called the film the greatest film to ever deal with jealousy and even called it an 'Othello for our times'.[5] Ebert notes that the film has several similarities with William Shakespeare's play Othello. Jake LaMotta constantly suspects Vicki of being unfaithful to him and later in the film suspects his own brother Joey of taking up with her. Unlike the play however, there is no Iago to deceive him. In his place, Jake has his own insecurity, envy and paranoia. Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...
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Othello and Desdemona by Alexandre-Marie Colin. ...
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Other critics view the film as a critique on masculinity. The film deals with boxing which has long been regarded as a man's sport. Jake, and to a lesser extent Joey, are domineering in their marriages. LaMotta discards his first wife and marries a younger and more beautiful woman. He treats Vicki respectfully at first but later constantly questions her fidelity to him. Ultimately, Vicki leaves Jake and Jake even alienates his own brother.[citation needed]
References - ^ imdb.com
- ^ Raging Bull - Academy Awards Database. AMPAS. Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
- ^ Kunio Hagio
- ^ Top Ten Lists of Roger Ebert
- ^ Roger Ebert, Raging Bull (1980), Chicago Sun-Times, May 10, 1998
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