Synopsis
I don’t go down for nobody.
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.
Directed by Martin Scorsese
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.
Dühöngő bika, Toro scatenato, 蠻牛, 愤怒的公牛, Tjuren från Bronx, Toro salvaje, Разяреният бик, Touro Indomável, Comme un taureau sauvage, 분노의 주먹, 성난 황소, Wie ein wilder Stier, Kuin raivo härkä, 레이징 불, Wściekły Byk, Rasende okse, Qızğın Buğa, Կատաղի Ցուլը, Kızgın Boğa, O Touro Enraivecido, Бешеный бык, Zuřící býk, Разјарени бик, Οργισμένο Είδωλο, Raging Bull - Tyren fra Bronx, השור הזועם, レイジング・ブル, Скажений бик, Zúriaci býk, Toro Salvaje, Taurul furios, الثور الهائج, گاو خشمگین, นักชกเลือดอหังการ์, ცოფიანი ხარი, Toro salvatge, Įsiutęs bulius, Bò Đực Nổi Điên, Saniknotais vērsis
The most frightening thing about Jake LaMotta isn’t his rage. It’s that look in his eyes when he’s caught onto something, when he thinks he has somebody cornered. He latches on to a sentence, or a phrase, and then he repeats it over and over until it starts to take on a different meaning for everybody in the room. He makes himself believe things that aren’t true, perhaps because he wants these things to be true, because he wants to punish himself. But why?
"You ever think of anybody else when we're in bed?"
Raging Bull explores the classic Madonna-whore complex: a man falls in love with a woman, and as soon as he touches her, he realizes that other…
how i imagine every conversation went between martin scorsese and robert de niro when it was time to make their new movie, circa 1973-1995
marty: hey bob
robert: hey
marty: so, how would you like to play the worst man of all time? just like, the worst man to ever exist?
robert *tearing up*: oh man, you just get me as a creator and an actor, don't you?
(i really liked this, btw.)
Up until the halfway point of this I was sort of interested but at the same time not at all engaged with what I was watching or what would happen next. Then the last half happened. I couldn’t look away and I grew such an appreciation for this story and how it was told. Each shot, cut, and line is so carefully put together to make it what it is and the result is something so authentic and terrifying to a point where it’s almost hard to watch. Nothing new to say about the performances or the direction. I am definitely going to be revisiting it just so I can appreciate that first hour a little bit more.
Kind of overrated if you ask me. Great performance from De Niro though. I just didn't find it that interesting or engaging. It was good, but one of the best movies of all time? I think not.
93
Never forget Pauline Kael's vicious critique that cuts right into the elaborate ploy of Scorsese and De Niro's tortured spirituality and fractured physicality:
"I know I’m supposed to be responding to a powerful, ironic realism, but I just feel trapped. Jake says, “You dumb fuck,” and Joey says, “You dumb fuck,” and they repeat it and repeat it. And I think. What am I doing here watching these two dumb fucks?"
If anything, she's right on the money, but the lack-of-surface, the brutalization for bloodshed's sake, the anguish and abuse simply to experience it, to own that power and wield its blunt force, is probably the most honest indictment of the American male. Whether Scorsese and De Niro found…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
the real winner is his first wife who didnt have to put up with his shit anymore.