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- Critics Consensus: Arguably Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's finest film, Raging Bull is often painful to watch, but it's a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero.
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Feb 7, 2020 · Cinephiles argue that Raging Bull is Martin Scorsese's Masterpiece. We share the most classic scenes from the boxing film starring Robert De Niro.
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- The first time Robert De Niro showed his good friend Martin Scorsese a copy of boxing champion Jake La Motta’s autobiography Raging Bull: My Story (cowritten with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage) was in 1974, when Scorsese was directing Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
- Scorsese chose to shoot the film in black and white in part because of color film stock’s tendency to fade, something that deeply concerned him. There were also several other boxing movies due to come out around that time, all of which would be in color.
- De Niro was the one who suggested Joe Pesci, an actor he’d noticed in the 1976 movie The Death Collector, for the part of Jake’s brother and manager Joey.
- Cinematographer Michael Chapman purchased numerous vintage Speed Graphic cameras, the kind members of the press would use in the forties and fifties and whose flash lingers for a longer time than modern equivalents.
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.
Dec 19, 1980 · 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
While working on our edition of Martin Scorsese’s 1980 masterpiece, producer Abbey Lustgarten found out how the director achieved some of the movie’s most evocative visual and sonic effects.
- Jake La Motta
Apr 29, 2012 · Scorsese’s attracttion to the story is based on his fascination with lives of tortured, violent, guilt-ridden characters. The previous collaboration of Scorsese and writers Paul Schrader and actor Robert De Niro was Taxi Driver, the director’s second masterpiece (the first was Mean Streets).
Aug 19, 2019 · How do you think Raging Bull lands with the boxing fight scenes omitted? Do we still have a masterpiece? Certainly there’d still be De Niro’s magnum opus performance, a knockout of a narrative, powerful bookends, some perfectly dazzling camerawork and editing choices, and certainly many beautiful shots.
