Yet right before he throws the last punch, all of the puncture wounds in Jake's forehead have been removed. Crazy credits The film is in black and white, but during the opening credits, the title is in red letters.
Alternate versions CBS edited 8 minutes from this film for its network television premiere. User reviews Review. Top review. There's very little to like about the character portrayed here by Robert De Niro, other than to acknowledge that he took advantage of one of the few things he was good at i.
The power of the movie comes from De Niro under the direction of Martin Scorsese, providing a wholly convincing performance of the furious, bitter, bovine pugilist with serious psychological issues.
It is one of the truly great performances of that decade, perhaps of all time, nailing the establishment of a character it's genuinely difficult to have any empathy or sympathy with. If you dig deeper, you will not be surprised to find a serial misogynist who married seven times and who beat all of his wives. If this is your type of hero you might like to reconsider how you got there.
If De Nero, Scorsese and cinema are your heroes, not too many will disagree with that. Xstal Sep 30, FAQ 3. What happened to Jake's first wife? I don't seem to remember this being addressed in the film.
Details Edit. Release date December 19, United States. United States. The Raging Bull. Chartoff-Winkler Productions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 2 hours 9 minutes. Black and White. Dolby Stereo. Related news. Nov 8 ScreenRant. You should've looked out for me just a little bit. You should've taken care of me just a little bit instead o' making me take them dives for the short-end money.
You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am. Let's face it. It was you, Charley. Presumably, Jake connects to the tumultuous relationship between Terry and his brother Charley, seeing an analogy to his relationship to his brother Joey, also his manager.
The quote implies that Jake has achieved new insight into his sins with a redemptive clarity; however, much debate surrounds the quote. Thus, the inclusion of the quote is largely up to viewer interpretation. The Question and Answer section for Raging Bull is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Conscious desire for Jake's character? Who is Robert De Niro? Many of the things that happen between Jake and Joey in the film actually happened between Jake and Pete in real life as La Motta reveals in his autobiography -- the arguments about women, about the mob, the jealousy, and so on. Even the "breakup" and reconciliation with Joey actually happened, in real life, with Pete. This was a breakout role for Pesci, a singer, comedian, and former child-actor. He had been in only one film before, "Death Collector," and had decided to quit acting before he was asked to play Joey.
He refused to take on a Mafia manager which would have given the mob a steady stream of income from his bouts and kept to himself. They were married about three months later. After the success of the movie, Vickie La Motta, who has since been superceded by wives No. She appeared, at age 51, in the November issue, becoming, at the time, the oldest Playboy pinup. Despite their volatile relationship and divorce, Vickie and Jake remained friends.
In , she told Newsweek she talked to Jake weekly, and considered him "an uncle. In Reel Life: Joey often spars with Jake, and sometimes acts as a human punching bag, wearing a huge black pad around his stomach.
You can hear Pesci groan. He's not acting. In Real Life: La Motta was one of many champions who worked out at Gleason's and, along with Roberto Duran, was the most famous boxer who trained there on a regular basis.
Gleason's, which opened in at th Street and 3rd Avenue in the Bronx, moved to Manhattan in and is currently located at 83 Front Street in Brooklyn, under the Brooklyn Bridge. Like La Motta trying to sidestep the mob early in his career, Robert De Niro took to the lead role in his own way. In Reel Life: A dozen fights are depicted on film, taking about 10 minutes of the two-hour runtime.
In Real Life: The fight scenes were choreographed in extraordinary detail, and took nine weeks to film. The rest of the movie took about 10 weeks to shoot. In Real Life: The film is historically accurate regarding fight locations, but the fight scenes were shot at the Los Angeles Auditorium.
In Reel Life: The fight scenes are impressionistic, and the ring often seems impossibly large. In Real Life: Scorsese altered the size of the ring, making it larger as La Motta aged, to depict how he thought the ring might appear to a boxer past his prime. In Real Life: Special effects were used liberally to create the "realistic" look of the film. Sponges in the gloves and small tubes in the boxers' hair dispersed enormous quantities of "bodily fluids.
The tube carries the 'blood' that squirts on impact of the boxing glove. Valentine's Day Massacre in at Chicago Stadium. Maybe it's coming back to me. During much of his boxing career, he feared that it would be found out that he killed a local bookie during a failed robbery attempt, and he believed that he would "pay for" what he did, one way or another.
As La Motta found out later in his boxing career, he had badly hurt the bookie, but hadn't killed him. I can't deliver a kid from my own neighborhood," and tells Joey that Jake won't get a shot at the title "without us.
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