Raging Bull (1980) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it. Director: Jake LaMotta (based on the book by) (as Jake La Motta), Joseph Carter (with) | 3 more credits » Stars: a list of 46 titles created 18 Oct 2011 a list of 33 titles created 04 Apr 2013 a list of 25 titles created 09 Nov 2013 a list of 45 titles created 11 Jun 2014 a list of 26 titles created 06 Sep 2014 Search for " Raging Bull " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 2 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 24 nominations. See more awards » Videos A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. Director: Martin Scorsese Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends, a mafia underboss and a casino owner, for a trophy wife over a gambling empire. Director: Martin Scorsese Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. Director: Martin Scorsese An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. Director: Michael Cimino A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. Director: Michael Mann A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Director: Sergio Leone During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. Director: Francis Ford Coppola In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. Director: Brian De Palma A small-time hood struggles with a moral crisis regarding his friends, family, business, and his conflicting religious beliefs. Director: Martin Scorsese A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. Director: Milos Forman A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. Director: Stanley Kubrick Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. Director: John G. Avildsen Edit Storyline When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter.

But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone. Written by alfiehitchie 19 December 1980 (USA) See more » Also Known As: The Raging Bull See more » Filming Locations: $13,568 (USA) (28 January 2005) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia The cross that once hung over Martin Scorsese 's parents' bed can be seen hanging over Jake LaMotta and Vicki LaMotta 's bed. See more » Goofs Early on in the movie, Jake tells Joey to punch him. Joey does so, repeatedly, and leaves his ring on thereby cutting Jake with each new punch. Yet right before he throws the last punch, all of the puncture wounds in Jake's forehead have been removed.

See more » Quotes [first lines] Jake La Motta : I remember those cheers / They still ring in my ears / After years, they remain in my thoughts. / Go to one night / I took off my robe, and what'd I do? I forgot to wear shorts. / I recall every fall / Every hook, every jab / The worst way a guy can get rid of his flab. / As you know, my life wasn't drab. / Though I'd much... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When you delve... Though I'd rather hear you cheer / When I delve into Shakespeare / "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a ... [...] See more » Crazy Credits The film is in black and white, but during the opening credits, the title is in red letters. See more » Connections It doesn't get much better than this 25 November 2002 | by waltergl (Los Angeles, CA) – See all my reviews Easily one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. I have watched it at least ten times, and it only gets better and better with each viewing.

Martin Scorsese is absolutely the greatest filmmaker of the last quarter century, and this film is his best. The story of how boxer Jake LaMotta watched his career and marriage crumble under the weight of his violent temper and deep-rooted misogyny is told with no punches pulled (excuse the bad pun), as Deniro (in what may be his best performance) and Scorsese unflinchingly explore what drove this man over the edge, and what ultimately may have pulled him back. The boxing scenes easily rank with the most brutal and violent moments ever put on film, shot in stark, unadorned black and white and utilizing unlikely sounds including shattering windows and animal cries to great effect. Thelma Schoonmaker's jarring, discordant editing in these scenes also deserves special mention. The scenes of domestic violence are not for the faint of heart, but there is really no other way to tell this story. If there is a more perfect exploration of why as men we act the way we do, then I'd love to see it, because this movie made me re-evaluate my life. 10/10 175 of 223 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Jake Lamotta nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is an American former world middleweight champion boxer who was famously portrayed by Robert De Niro in the film Raging Bull October 1, 2015 Bronx Bull Hitting Theaters Soon "LaMotta the Bronx Bull" had premiers last weekend at The Golden Door Film Festival in Jersey City and The international Long Beach film Festival in Long Island and was a huge success! Will be in movie theaters soon! Both premiers were fully attended and fully loved! December 14, 2014 Appearance For Steiner Sports The Raging Bull will be appearaing at the David S. Mack Student Center at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY 11550 on December 14, 2014 from 12pm to 1:30 pm.

Jake LaMotta Signed Everlast Boxing Glove $199.99 Jake LaMotta Signed Boxing Trunks $249.99 Jake LaMotta Signed Leopard Boxing Robe $349.99 Jake LaMotta Signed 16x20 Photo With "Ray I Never Went Down" $249.99 ESPN.com - Page2 - Reel Life: 'Raging Bull' Reel Life: 'Raging Bull' By Jeff Merron Special to Page 2 "Raging Bull," the gritty biopic about the life of former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta, was considered by many to be the best movie of the 1980s. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1980, and took home two -- Robert De Niro won best actor, and Thelma Schoonmaker won for best film editing. "Raging Bull" was also nominated for best picture, but lost out to "Ordinary People." Director Martin Scorsese's brutal depiction of La Motta's life in and out of the ring pounds home the aura of realism with every blow. But just how true is the story? You decide.

In Reel Life: Jake La Motta is listed as a "consultant" in the opening credits. In Real Life: The film is based on La Motta's 1970 autobiography, also entitled "Raging Bull." La Motta coached and sparred with Robert De Niro (who plays La Motta in the film). La Motta's involvement in this less-than-flattering portrait may be puzzling to some, but in his autobiography he doesn't spare himself, either. After the film came out, La Motta said, "When I saw the film I was upset. I kind of look bad in it. Then I realized it was true. That's the way it was. I was a no-good bastard. I realize it now. It's not the way I am now, but the way I was then." In Reel Life: La Motta's life is black-and-white, episodic, sometimes confusing, dark and doesn't have much of a soundtrack. In Real Life: Scorsese seems to have lifted the film's distinctive look and feel directly from La Motta's autobiography.

"Sometimes, at night, when I think back, I feel like I'm looking at an old black-and-white movie of myself," La Motta wrote near the start of his book. "Not a good movie, either, jerky, with gaps in it, a string of poorly lit sequences, some of them with no beginning and some with no end. No musical score ..." In Reel Life: It's 1964, and an overweight La Motta is shown in a dressing room, rehearsing a nightclub monologue. Then the movie cuts to 1941, and a lean and mean La Motta is shown dancing around the ring. In Real Life: De Niro prepared to play the young La Motta by dieting and working out. Then, during a four-month break in filming, he ate his way from 160 to 215 pounds, loading up at some of the best restaurants in France. "I began to realize what a fat man goes through," said De Niro. "You get rashes on your legs. Your legs scrape together." Scorsese was concerned about De Niro after his weight gain. "His breathing was like mine when I have an asthma attack," he said.

In Reel Life: La Motta's first bout in the movie is against Jimmy Reeves. In Real Life: The fight against Reeves, a good light-heavyweight, was La Motta's first big bout -- the first time he fought more than six rounds. Joe Pesci, right, played La Motta's brother, but the character was a composite of Joe La Motta and Jake's friend Pete Petrella. In Reel Life: During his fight against Reeves, La Motta's absorbing a lot of loud, brutal punches, but he doesn't go down, even though he loses the fight. In Real Life: La Motta was renowned for, among other things, his ability to stay on his feet even when taking a brutal beating. The sounds of the punches, though, are pure Hollywood -- produced by the squashing of melons and tomatoes. As Red Smith wrote in 1980, "Just the sound effects of the punches would dislodge the foundations of most fight arenas." In Reel Life: Jake is very close to his brother, Joey (Joe Pesci). Joey's his friend, his manager, his confidante.

In Real Life: Joey, Jake's younger brother, was a good boxer himself, and was, on paper, Jake's manager. But in the film, Joey is a composite character -- about 20 percent Joey, and about 80 percent La Motta's friend, Pete Petrella. 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.

In Reel Life: In 1941, Salvy, a mobster, tells Joey that Jake won't get a title shot unless he's "with Tommy." In Real Life: It was an open secret that the Mafia controlled pro boxing in those days, and La Motta made a decision, as is stated early and often in the film, that he wanted to make it on his own in boxing. 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. Vickie and Jake La Motta arrive in New York after Jake defeated Marcel Cerdan for the middleweight title in Detroit in 1949. In Reel Life: At the community pool, Joey introduces Jake to Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), a 15-year-old blonde who soon becomes Jake's second wife. In Real Life: Joey introduced Jake to Vickie, but did so while Jake was talking to reporters after a workout. They were married about three months later. After the success of the movie, Vickie La Motta, who has since been superceded by wives No.

3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, leveraged her new-found fame into a Playboy pictorial. She appeared, at age 51, in the November 1981 issue, becoming, at the time, the oldest Playboy pinup. Despite their volatile relationship and divorce, Vickie and Jake remained friends. In 1983, she told Newsweek she talked to Jake weekly, and considered him "an uncle." "I am the woman of his life, and he loves me," she added. "He's family." In Reel Life: Joey often spars with Jake, and sometimes acts as a human punching bag, wearing a huge black pad around his stomach. In Real Life: In one of the sparring scenes, De Niro broke one of Pesci's ribs. You can hear Pesci groan. He's not acting. In Reel Life: Jake works out at Gleason's Boxing Club. 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 1937 at 149th Street and 3rd Avenue in the Bronx, moved to Manhattan in 1974 and is currently located at 83 Front Street in Brooklyn, under the Brooklyn Bridge. You can join for $720 a year. De Niro worked out with La Motta for a whole year, between April 1978 and April 1979, at the Gramercy Gym on East 14th Street. "I guess in the first six months we boxed a thousand rounds, a half hour straight every day," La Motta said. Pesci also worked out at the Gramercy, sparring with Joey La Motta. 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 Reel Life: The fights take place in Detroit (at Brigg's Stadium), in New York's Madison Square Garden, and at other unnamed venues. 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 Reel Life: In his bout against Tony Janiro, who's described by Vickie and others as "good looking," La Motta pounds Janiro and almost punches his nose off. 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 Janiro sequence was one of makeup artist Michael Westmore's more complicated jobs in the movie. "That nose ... was a genuine plumbing job," said Westmore.

"There is a tube that runs from the back of the man's head across his forehead and down to his nose -- but it's impossible to detect. The tube carries the 'blood' that squirts on impact of the boxing glove." Sugar Ray Robinson beat La Motta in a TKO in the 13th round in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1951 at Chicago Stadium. In Reel Life: La Motta and Sugar Ray Robinson are described in the film as "fierce rivals," and after one of their bouts, in which Jake loses, he says to Joey, "I've done a lot of bad things, Joey. Maybe it's coming back to me." In Real Life: It's not explained in the film, but La Motta had been a petty criminal (a largely incompetent one, by his own account) as a teenager, and had learned boxing while in reform school. 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. In Reel Life: Tommy Como (Nicholas Colasanto, who later played Coach on "Cheers"), the local mob boss, meets with Joey and says, "Jake's making me look bad. 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." Joey tells Jake that "they want you to do the old 'flip-flop' for them." In Real Life: As La Motta admitted in later testimony and in his book, he did throw his fight against Billy Fox at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 14, 1947, and he did it knowing, at that point, that he really wouldn't get a shot at the title unless the mob arranged it. The fight, ridiculous as it looks in the movie, happened pretty much as depicted, wrote Red Smith in 1980.

"Exposing himself almost as flagrantly as Lady Godiva, Jake refused to go down but threshed and floundered on the ropes, apparently helpless against Fox's blows, until the referee stopped them in the fourth round." La Motta, in his book, wrote, "Fox can't even look good. The first round, a couple of belts to his head, and I see a glassy look coming over his eyes. Jesus Christ, a couple of jabs and he's going to fall down? I began to panic a little. I was supposed to be throwing a fight to this guy, and it looked like I was going to end up holding him on his feet ... By [the fourth round], if there was anybody in the Garden who didn't know what was happening, he must have been dead drunk." In Reel Life: La Motta returns to fighting after serving a suspension for throwing the Fox fight, and does get his title shot, against Marcel Cerdan, the French middleweight champ. La Motta is depicted as clearly dominating the fight at Brigg's Stadium in Detroit. Marcel is unable to continue after the ninth round, and La Motta is winner by TKO.

In Real Life: "Actually, there was nothing to suggest that La Motta might win until Cerdan tore the supraspinatus muscle in his right shoulder, rendering that arm useless," wrote Red Smith. "With only his left, he fought on until his corner induced him to accept the inevitable and save himself for another night. Meanwhile, La Motta was having hell's own time beating one side of Cerdan." The contract between La Motta and Cerdan called for a rematch, but Cerdan, the "Casablanca Clouter," was killed in a plane crash while returning to the United States. for the fight. In Reel Life: Robinson and La Motta fight several times in the film. In one fight, on Feb. 5, 1943, at Detroit's Olympia Stadium, La Motta defeats Robinson, and it's described as Robinson's first loss as a pro. In Real Life: Robinson and La Motta had a genuine middleweight rivalry going in the 1940s. They fought each other six times. In their first fight, Robinson won by decision in New York. The Feb.

5 fight was their second, and La Motta won, breaking Robinson's 40-fight pro winning streak. Three weeks later, they fought again in Detroit, with Robinson taking the decision. Robinson then won two bouts in 1945, and on Feb. 14, 1951, at Chicago Stadium, Robinson brutalized La Motta to take the middleweight crown in what was called the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre." De Niro trained with La Motta for a year to prepare for "Raging Bull." In Reel Life: After the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Jake goes over to Sugar Ray's corner and says to him, "You never knocked me down." In Real Life: "That never happened," La Motta said last year. "I never said it. That is probably what I would have said if I did say something, but I never did. I don't even remember if I was talking at that time.

I had too much respect for Ray." In Reel Life: Near the end of the movie, Jake moves to Miami, opens his own night club, and is arrested for abetting prostitution -- serving as a pimp for a 14-year-old girl. He's found guilty, thrown into jail, and, in a gut-wrenching scene, thrown into "the hole." In Real Life: La Motta got six months of jail time and a $500 fine, and did pass some time in "the hole" as depicted -- hitting the wall. He describes this in his book: "The wall closest to me became the whole stinking world. I doubled my fists tight and lashed out at it, at them ... I just kept on doing it, hitting a wall that was about as thinking and as feeling as the world." La Motta claimed innocence in both the book and the movie, saying he didn't know the girl. In Reel Life: At the end of the film, Jake, now older and out of jail, makes a living doing a standup act at seedy nightclubs.

He seems to take his "show biz" career seriously, and is shown rehearsing Terry Malloy's speech ("It wasn't him, Charlie. It was you ...") from "On The Waterfront," before performing it in front of an audience at the Barbizon Plaza Theater. In Real Life: La Motta did some television, some plays and a nightclub act after he got out of prison. He also did perform nine scenes from nine plays in "A Dramatic Concert with Jake La Motta" at the Barbizon. He played a bartender in "The Hustler," and has had 10 other roles in forgettable movies throughout the years. "Raging Bull" turned La Motta's life around. "I was real low before the film," he said in 2001. "I was barely surviving. The book came out, I started to get interviews. The stand-up took off and the movie hit. Then the Oscar, that was it.

I was famous again." REEL LIFE Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in 'Raging Bull' - Photos - Robert De Niro's iconic movie roles - NY Daily News Robert De Niro's iconic movie roles Robert De Niro's iconic movie roles Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro has a prolific career that spans decades and includes some of the most significant films of our time. From Jake LaMotta to Vito Corleone, take a look at some of his most iconic roles that define his impressive career … Robert De Niro's iconic movie roles 5 | 10 Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in 'Raging Bull' Robert De Niro won an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of real-life boxer Jake LaMotta in the 1979 Martin Scorsese film, "Raging Bull." De Niro played LaMotta at two stages in his life, and had to gain a significant amount of weight during filming to play the boxer when he was older.

Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Facts about Raging Bull | ShortList Magazine Entertainment 30 knockout raging bull facts Celebrating the anniversary of a film's release date is usually a clear sign that it means a lot to a lot of people. In marking three decades since Scorsese and De Niro combined (again) to introduce us to Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, however, we are talking about the next level of cinema - one of the high water marks of modern film making. Thirty years since one of the greatest directors of all time teamed up with one of the greatest actors of his generation to tell La Motta's story we now bring you a fact for each year since. 1. During the gym sparring sequence, you can hear an “Oof” from Joe Pesci [Joey, La Motta’s brother]. That reaction is real, as De Niro broke his rib. 2. Robert De Niro read Jake La Motta’s memoir Raging Bull in 1974 while making The Godfather: Part II and saw the story’s potential. It took four years of drafts, persuasion and pestering to get his friend and collaborator Martin Scorsese interested. 3.

When Jake asks Joey, “Did you f*ck my wife?”, Scorsese didn’t think Pesci’s facial reaction was strong enough. Unbeknown to Pesci, he told De Niro to say, “Did you f*ck your mother?” instead and got the desired take. 4. Scorsese originally intended to cut back and forth between the boxing Jake La Motta and his older, heavier self’s stand-up routine throughout the film. But after watching rough cuts, he realised it worked better as a framing device at either end of the film. 5. Scorsese’s father Charles made his film debut as one of Mob boss Tommy Como’s cronies. He’s one of the wiseguys crowded round the Copacabana nightclub table. He’s since made cameos in seven of his son’s films. 6. The last and hardest role to cast was Jake’s second wife Vickie. Casting director Cis Corman auditioned 200 actresses, searching for someone with the right combination of sexuality and strength. Pesci spotted 18-year-old Bronx schoolgirl Cathy Moriarty in a nightclub.

She’d never acted before, so Corman coached her for two weeks before taking her to meet Scorsese and De Niro. 7. The love scene between Vickie and Jake, with her kissing his stomach, was originally written by Paul Schrader to finish on La Motta masturbating and dipping his penis into a bucket of ice. It was later scaled back to pouring ice down his pants. This is more faithful to La Motta’s book: before fights, he would allow himself to get aroused, then withdraw from orgasm as a way to toughen himself up. 8. To achieve a feeling of brotherhood, De Niro and Pesci lived and trained with each other before filming began. They’ve been close friends since. 9. The first screenplay was written by Mardik Martin, who co-wrote Mean Streets. Martin has a cameo in the film as the Copa waiter who brings the brothers drinks sent over by Tommy Como and is dismissed by Jake when he tries to take the half-drunk ones away. 10. Paul Schrader rewrote Martin’s script with two major changes.

He started the story in the middle of La Motta’s career, rather than at the beginning, and reinstated the character of his brother — Jake had written him out of his book after they fell out. 11. Scorsese used slow motion in many of La Motta’s point-of-view scenes outside the ring to give them paranoid intensity, especially when he’s looking at Vickie with envy or suspicion. 12. Scorsese wanted La Motta’s brutal beating in his final fight with Sugar Ray Robinson to feel like a horror film, so he based the rapid cuts on the shower scene from Psycho, even using Alfred Hitchcock’s original shot list. 13. Peter Savage, co-writer of La Motta’s original book, has a cameo as the journalist chatting to Joey at the bar, before he assaults mobster Salvy. 14. The later scenes with weighty La Motta were shot with minimal takes because De Niro would tire so quickly. Scorsese was at one stage so startled by the weight gain and his star’s laboured breathing that he shut down production, fearing for De Niro’s health. 15.

De Niro asked editor Thelma Schoonmaker’s husband, director Michael Powell, how British actor Roger Livesey had gained weight for the title role in Powell and Pressburger’s war satire The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. Powell explained that he didn’t — they did it with a body double, wardrobe and cheek padding. But De Niro still decided to gain weight for real. 16. To contrast with De Niro gaining weight for the final act, Pesci lost weight and grew a moustache. 17. When De Niro won his Oscar for Best Actor, the real-life Jake La Motta was there to see it. On the same night, Sissy Spacek won the Best Actress award for Coal Miner’s Daughter — playing country singer Loretta Lynn, who was also in the audience. 18. The f-bomb is dropped 114 times during the film, but the vast majority were added during Pesci and De Niro’s improvisations. 19. When La Motta takes a hammer to his title belt, crockery wasn’t supposed to fall off the nearby shelf. But De Niro and Moriarty stayed in character and their subsequent reaction and lines were improvised.

20. The two men grappling La Motta into his jail cell were real prison guards. They were shaken by the ferocity and strength with which De Niro struggled. 21. In Schrader’s script, La Motta tries to masturbate in his prison cell but can’t climax because he’s haunted by memories of his bad treatment of women. He finally gives up in anger, blames his hands and smashes them against the wall. Scorsese and De Niro dropped this and instead had La Motta bashing his head on the wall, wailing, “I’m not an animal!” 22. The final soliloquy that La Motta recites into the mirror was originally one from Shakespeare’s Richard III, but Michael Powell suggested it should be American. Scorsese eventually plumped for the “I could have been a contender” speech from On The Waterfront. 23. For the home movie sequences, Scorsese’s cameramen couldn’t stop themselves framing shots correctly. He solved the problem by handing the 16mm camera to the crew working on-set, whose shaky footage gave that homemade feel. He then personally scraped the film with a wire coat hanger to rough it up. 24.

In the opening scene of Schrader’s script, La Motta’s first wife was pregnant and the argument over the steak spiralled until he began beating and kicking her. The violence was scaled back as it was too brutal a way to begin the film. 25. De Niro gained weight for the later scenes by going on a culinary tour of Italy and France, bingeing on three large meals per day, with lots of pasta, meat, butter, ice cream and beer. He gained 60lb in four months and said, “The first 15lb was fun, the rest was hard work.” 26. Sharon Stone auditioned for the part of Vickie La Motta but didn’t get it. But she did get to play De Niro’s wife 15 years later in Casino — which was also directed by Scorsese. 27. To prepare for the part, De Niro fought in three real Brooklyn boxing matches — winning two of them. He also sparred hundreds of rounds in a 14th Street gym with La Motta, who said he was professional standard and one of the best 20 middleweights he’d ever seen. 28.

The scene where La Motta and his entourage walk down the stadium corridors, up through the crowd and enter the ring for the Cerdan fight is shot continuously on Steadicam, similar to Henry and Karen Hill’s nightclub entrance in GoodFellas a decade later. 29. Scorsese went to boxing bouts at Madison Square Garden for inspiration and was struck by two details he spotted: a blood-soaked sponge wiped across the fighter’s back and blood dripping off the ropes. He included both in the film’s final fight scene. 30. Scorsese makes an off-camera appearance during the final scene as the stagehand who tells La Motta he has to go on in five minutes.

Images: Allstar, Rex Robert DeNiro playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull | Liam Neeson & 22 other actors who have gained or lost weight for film roles, in pictures - Film Film 14 Jan 2017 Liam Neeson and 22 other actors who have gained or lost weight for film roles, in pictures Robert De Niro piled on 27 kilograms (60 pounds) to play aging boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980) Credit: Rex Features © Telegraph Media Group Limited 2017 Your support makes a big difference In order to bring you award-winning content and investigative journalism from your favourite writers, we rely on revenue generated by advertising. Please consider supporting us by turning off your ad blocker. Just a couple of clicks will make a big difference. Thank you. Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, 'Raging Bull' (1980) | 25 Best Oscar-Winning Performances Based on Real People | Rolling Stone 25 Best Oscar-Winning Performances Based on Real People Watch Green Day's Trump-Trashing 'Troubled Times' Lyric...

25 Best Oscar-Winning Performances Based on Real People From raging bulls to R&B legends, we count down the greatest true-story roles that took home the gold All Stories 1. Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, 'Raging Bull' (1980) Forget the sheer physical effort that De Niro put into playing former middleweight champion Jake LaMotta at both his trim fighting weight and in his bloated later years. What's more impressive is how the actor commits to the boxer's interior: Looking dead-eyed, driven, and always a little peevish, he creates an impression of a man so beset by his own demons that he can't enjoy his own success. Critics noted more than a little similarity between the character and director Martin Scorsese, who had just gone through some dark times of his own. The result is a perfect fusion of a complicated real-life athlete, a star with the guts to play him without excessive vanity, and a filmmaker adept at funneling his own pain through someone else's biography. Raging Bull (8/12) Movie CLIP - Did You F*** My Brother?

(1980) HD - YouTube Raging Bull (8/12) Movie CLIP - Did You F*** My Brother? (1980) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Mar 27, 2015 Raging Bull movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Jake (Robert De Niro) accuses Vickie (Cathy Moriarty) of cheating with Joey (Joe Pesci) and then beats them both up. FILM DESCRIPTION: 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. CREDITS: Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty Director: Martin Scorsese Producers: Robert Chartoff, Hal W. Polaire, Peter Savage, Irwin Winkler Screenwriters: Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage, Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: Raging Bull Hotel scene: Directed by Daryl Keith Middlebrook - YouTube Raging Bull Hotel scene: Directed by Daryl Keith Middlebrook Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video?

Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on May 8, 2015 Based on the classic Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull starring Robert De Niro, which is the story of boxer Jake LaMotta. In this scene Jake, in a jealous rage, confronts his wife Vickie about her behavior with a local Mob boss. I decided to shoot this scene mostly in POV, we get a great angle while shooting in the mirror at the end of the clip. Actors: Luis Mercado, Bibi Amos, James Ferrero and Tommy Otis; shot on the Red Camera at LAFS. Category Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone play fight in London with Anthony Joshua as they promote new film Grudge Match | Daily Mail Online comments It may be a good few years since their action heyday as boxers Rocky Balboa and Jake La Motta. But Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro were still playing the tough guys as they promoted their new film Grudge Match in London on Thursday.

The pair put their fists up in a play fight as they promoted their new film at London's Dorchester Hotel and had to be separated by Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua. Scroll down for video Playing peacemaker: Anthony Joshua gets in the middle of film legends Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro Clean shot: De Niro pretends to throw a punch at Stallone As well as Joshua, the two screen legends were joined at the launch of the film by a host of British boxing stars, including George Groves, Luke Campbell, Kell Brook, Darren Barker, Nicola Adams and Natasha Jones. The two Hollywood superstars were more than happy to live up to their roles as boxers by playing up to the cameras at the photo call. Best of British: Olympic champion Nicola Adams poses with the two veteran film stars Battle of the sexes: De Niro poses with English amateur Natasha Jones while Stallone and Adams face off The film plays on the famous boxing roles previously taken on by both actors, with De Niro playing real-life boxer Jake La Motta in 1980's Raging Bull and Stallone portraying Rocky Balboa in 1976's Rocky and its series.

Big hitters: Kell Brook and Luke Campbell were at the launch of the new boxing film Grudge Match Stallone portrays boxer Henry 'Razor' Sharp and De Niro plays his local Pittsburgh rival Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen in the boxing comedy. The film hits British screens on Friday, January 24 and the two stars will no doubt hope it is a knock-out success. Meet and greet: Frank Buglioni (centre) also posed alongside the Hollywood legends The real deal: British boxers George Groves, Joshua, Campbell, Jones, Darren Barker and Brook watch from the front row as Stallone and De Niro hold a press conference for the film 'Grudge Match' Talking a good game: De Niro and Stallone promote boxing comedy 'Grudge Match' in London Boxing heroes: De Niro and Stallone play aged boxers stepping into the ring for one last bout

Question: In which film did Robert De Niro play boxer Jake La Motta?
Answer: Raging Bull