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Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent man in and out of the ring who thrives on his ability (and desire) to take a beating. Opening with the spectacle of the over-the-hill La Motta (Robert De Niro) practicing his 1960s night-club act, the film flashes back to 1940s New York, when Jake's career is on the rise. Despite pressure from the local mobsters, Jake trusts his brother Joey (Joe Pesci) to help him make it to a title bout against Sugar Ray Robinson the honest way; the Mob, however, will not cave in. Jake gets the title bout, and blonde teenage second wife Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), but success does nothing to exorcise his demons, even as he channels his rage into boxing. Alienating Vickie and Joey, and disastrously gaining weight, Jake has destroyed his personal and professional lives by the 1950s. After he hits bottom, however, Jake emerges with a gleam of self-awareness, as he sits rehearsing Marlon Brando's On the Waterfront speech in his dressing room mirror: "I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody." Working with a script adapted by Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader from La Motta's memoirs, Scorsese and De Niro sought to make an uncompromising portrait of an unlikable man and his ruthless profession. Eschewing uplifting "Rocky"-like boxing movie conventions, their Jake is relentlessly cruel and self-destructive; the only peace he can make is with himself. Michael Chapman's stark black-and-white photography creates a documentary/tabloid realism; the production famously shut down so that De Niro could gain 50-plus pounds. Raging Bull opened in late 1980 to raves for its artistry and revulsion for its protagonist; despite eight Oscar nominations, it underperformed at the box office, as audiences increasingly turned away from "difficult" films in the late '70s and early '80s. The Academy concurred, passing over Scorsese's work for Best Director and Picture in favor of Robert Redford and Ordinary People, although De Niro won a much-deserved Oscar, as did the film's editor, Thelma Schoonmaker. Oscar or no Oscar, Raging Bull has often been cited as the best American film of the 1980s. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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1. Main Title
2. 1964: That's Entertainment
3. 1941: Pounding Reeves
4. A Talk With the Animal
5. "Hit Me in the Face"
6. Unwelcome Spectators
7. Vickie by the Pool
8. A Date With the Champ
9. Sitting a Little Closer
10. 1943: Sugar Ray Robinson
11. Kissing It Better
12. 1943: Robinson for the 3rd
13. Fights and Home Movies
14. 1947: A Win-Win Plan
15. Watchful Eye on Vickie
16. Janiro - Pretty No More
17. "Nothing Goin' On?!"
18. A Lack of Respect
19. "I Just Wanna Catch Her"
20. 1947: Going Down for Fox
21. 1949: Slapped in the Face
22. Attack on Cerdan
23. 1950: A Crazy Question
24. Fat Pig Selfish Fool
25. Dauthuille: The Comeback
26. Last Time With Sugar Ray
27. 1956: Happy and Retired
28. Raging Entertainer
29. "I'm Leaving You, Jake"
30. Not a 14-Year-Old
31. $10,000 From the Belt
32. 1957: Fist on Concrete
33. 1958: A Joke for a Drink
34. No Friend in Joey
35. Coulda Been a Contender
36. "Now I Can See"/Credits
Art Director - Alan Manzer
Art Director - Kirk Axtell
Art Director - Sheldon Haber
Associate Producer - Hal W. Polaire
Associate Producer - Peter Savage
Book Author - Peter Savage
Book Author - Joseph Carter
Book Author - Jake LaMotta
Casting - Cis Corman
Cinematographer - Michael Chapman
Composer (Music Score) - Robbie Robertson
Consultant/advisor - Jake LaMotta
Consultant/advisor - Al Silvani
Costume Designer - John Boxer
Costume Designer - Richard Bruno
First Assistant Director - Allan Wertheim
First Assistant Director - Jerry Grandey
Makeup - Michael Westmore
Production Designer - Bill Kenney
Production Designer - Gene Rudolf
Production Manager - James D. Brubaker
Re-Recording Mixer - David J. Kimball
Sound Effects Editor - Frank Warner
Sound/Sound Designer - Michael Evje
Sound/Sound Designer - Les Lazarowitz
Sound/Sound Designer - Bill Nicholson
Sound/Sound Designer - Donald O. Mitchell
Stunts - Jim Nickerson
Stunts Coordinator - Jim Nickerson
Technical Advisor - Frank Topham
In Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro explore the soul of a profoundly violent man and search for the human core buried deep inside him. In many ways, De Niro's performance as Jake does make him seem more like an animal than a human being; he's ruled by a volatile mixture of arrogance, paranoia, sexual confusion, and fear, and he can deal with his emotions only through violence. The physical brutality that makes Jake a champion in the boxing ring cripples his relationships with his wives, his business associates, and his brother. But even though La Motta is in many ways controlled by the worst parts of his nature, he's also aware of it on some primal level. When he commands his brother to hit him as hard as he can, it's almost as if he wants someone to knock the fight out of him (while believing, arrogantly but accurately, that it can't be done), and as Jake literally beats his head against a wall in a Florida jail cell, shouting "Why? Why? Why?" it sounds as if he's begging for an explanation of his entire life. In nearly any other film, a performance as strong and intricately detailed as De Niro's would control the entire show, but here Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty both offer superb, career-making support, while Scorsese's peerless visual sense makes this more than just another star vehicle. The boxing sequences are shot, choreographed, and edited with such audacious power and impact that it's hard to believe that they occupy only ten minutes of screen time; the beautifully designed tracking shots, the use of slow motion, and Michael Chapman's excellent black-and-white photography lend the film a stylized edge while sharpening its visceral emotional impact. With screenwriters Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, Scorsese tells the story not of a boxer or a bad man, but of a lost soul struggling for a way out of the emotional damnation of his own brutal nature; and he tells it with such unblinking horror and understated compassion that Raging Bull has been widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful films of its era. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Thelma Schoonmaker : Best Editing - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1981
Joe Pesci : Most Promising Newcomer - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1981
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - Directors Guild of America, 1980
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1980
Robert de Niro : Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1980
Joe Pesci : Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1980
Mardik Martin : Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1980
Paul Schrader : Best Screenplay - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1980
Cathy Moriarty : Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1980
Cathy Moriarty : New Star of the Year - Female - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1980
Robert de Niro : Best Actor - National Board of Review, 1980
Joe Pesci : Best Supporting Actor - National Board of Review, 1980
Robert de Niro : Best Actor - New York Film Critics Circle, 1980
Joe Pesci : Best Supporting Actor - New York Film Critics Circle, 1980
Robert de Niro : Best Actor - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Michael Chapman : Best Cinematography - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Martin Scorsese : Best Director - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Thelma Schoonmaker : Best Editing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Robert Chartoff : Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Irwin Winkler : Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Les Lazarowitz : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Bill Nicholson : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Donald O. Mitchell : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
David J. Kimball : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Joe Pesci : Best Supporting Actor - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Cathy Moriarty : Best Supporting Actress - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1980
Robert de Niro : Best Actor - Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1980
