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Nov 13, 2020 · Cathy Moriarty was only 17 when Martin Scorsese cast her opposite the then-35-year-old Robert De Niro, who burrowed deep into the trouble psyche of his character, real-life boxer Jake LaMotta.
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Nov 16, 2020 · Cathy Moriarty was only 17 when Martin Scorsese cast her opposite the then-35-year-old Robert De Niro, who burrowed deep into the trouble psyche of his character, real-life boxer Jake LaMotta.
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role. The film is an adaptation of former middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta 's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story.
- Raging Bull partially owes its existence to Rocky. Comparisons to that other Oscar-winning boxing movie from four years earlier were inevitable, but the two were actually connected.
- Raging Bull was one of several boxing movies being shot around the same time. Rocky started a trend, as movies that win Best Picture often do. In late 1978 and early 1979, when Scorsese was getting started on Raging Bull, there were at least four others in the works: Rocky II, The Main Event, The Champ, and Matilda (the boxing kangaroo).
- For research, Raging Bull screenwriter Mardik Martin lived with Jake LaMotta's ex-wife for a few days. “Lived with” is how he phrased it on the 30th anniversary Blu-ray.
- Robert De Niro wanted to do Raging Bull as a play, too. This was in early 1978, before it was even written as a movie yet, when De Niro was collaborating with Mardik Martin to adapt LaMotta’s memoir, while simultaneously trying to convince a noncommittal and increasingly drug-addled Scorsese to take on the project.
Raging Bull: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent. The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Martin Scorsese
- 1980-12-19
LaMotta in the 1980s, with former wife Vikki LaMotta, right, actress Cathy Moriarty, left. LaMotta had a troubled personal life, including an early spell in a reformatory, and was married seven times. He admitted to having raped a woman, having beaten his wives and coming close to beating a man to death during a robbery.
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Career. 1980s. Moriarty with co-star Joe Pesci on the set of Raging Bull. Moriarty made her film debut in Martin Scorsese 's Raging Bull (1980), as Vikki LaMotta, wife of boxer Jake LaMotta, played by Robert De Niro. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
