The movie, which ranks No. A Do you realize how great a film and performance this is? And b how does that feel having done that together? No matter what, it would be special After losing his middleweight championship title to Sugar Ray Robinson in , LaMotta moved his family to Miami, where he ran a nightclub and performed as a stand-up comic and singer.
De Niro gained 60 pounds to play LaMotta in his later years, when he got divorced and spent time in prison for enabling the prostitution of a teenage girl.
He loses his title and gains all the weight and he falls apart in that sense. There's something physically that's so graphic. Maybe I could take the time to gain this weight, see how far we can go with that. Scorsese, 78, who first collaborated with De Niro on 's "Mean Streets," said that initially, he "wasn't affected by the book at all.
LaMotta said that De Niro has the ability to be a contender, and that he would have been happy to be his manager and trainer. He accepted, due to the parallels with Roman gladiators, with rich people and crime lords sitting front-row, getting sprayed with gladiator blood. Martin backed off from the project due to exhaustion after several months of research, so Paul Schrader was asked to take over.
He made several changes to the script, including making Joey LaMotta, Jake's brother, the second most prominent character. Joey's actions were combined with those of Jake's friend, Peter Savage , and Schrader started the story in the middle of LaMotta's career, rather than at the beginning. He also added the subplot of Jake being blackmailed by the gambling mafia to throw a fight. Although they kept Schrader's overall structure, Scorsese and De Niro spent three weeks re-writing his version of the script while on holiday in St Martin until they had exactly the film they wanted Scorsese and De Niro are uncredited as screenwriters for the film.
Of all of the great dramatic films in history, it was the great Buster Keaton 's comedy Battling Butler that was one of Martin Scorsese 's biggest inspirations in getting the "feel" of the boxing scenes just right, particularly and most likely from Keaton's surprisingly realistic, climactic fight. Hayes Cambridge University Press. Copyright , Scorsese called Keaton "the only person who had the right attitude about boxing in the movies" for him.
Cathy Moriarty 's film debut. McKenzie Westmore's film debut. According to Martin Scorsese , the script took only two weeks to write on the island of St. Martin in the Caribbean. The opening sequence, in which Jake prances around a ring in slow motion, featured the lighting from photographers' flashes. There was only person setting off the flash bulbs, and that was director of photography Michael Chapman running around in the ring in a black velor tracksuit. Martin Scorsese was worried about the On the Waterfront recitation because he knew he'd be inviting critical comparison between the scene in this film and the original film's scene.
Robert De Niro read it in various ways. Scorsese chose the take in which the recitation is extremely flat, specifically to mute the comparison, and to suggest that it is simply a recitation, and not indicative of how Jake LaMotta felt about his brother. According to producer Irwin Winkler , he and Robert De Niro didn't have many creative disagreements on the film, save for when De Niro wanted to gain the weight to look like the older Jake LaMotta.
Winkler, fearing for the actor's health, had objected and suggested the use of prosthetics and make-up, as they had money in the budget. But as a method actor who wanted to stay true to the real-life subject, De Niro opted to gain the weight required.
Meeting resistance from United Artists about making a boxing film with a dark anti-hero, producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff refused to allow the studio to make Rocky II until Raging Bull was approved.
The home movie sequences were in color, to make them stand out from the rest of the film. Another reason was the feeling of reality, because at that particular time, represented by the home movies, 8mm color home movie cameras were very popular.
Martin Scorsese claims that nothing should be read into his using the On the Waterfront quote. Jake LaMotta , in his declining years, used to appear on stage reciting dialogue from television plays, and even reading William Shakespeare.
According to Scorsese, he'd planned to use something from "Richard III" because in the corresponding real-life event, LaMotta used it , but Michael Powell suggested that "Richard III" wouldn't work in the context of the film, because the film in general, and LaMotta in particular, are inherently American.
Scorsese picked the lines from "On the Waterfront", which was a favorite recital source for LaMotta in real life. United Artists was unable to actively promote this movie for awards consideration, as it was then embroiled in serious financial trouble following the Heaven's Gate debacle. Paul Schrader was directing Hardcore , when Robert De Niro talked to him about needing help with a script.
The first thing Schrader did was drive down to Key West and check the archives of a local newspaper. It was there that he learned that there were two LaMottas, something which is not referenced in Jake LaMotta 's autobiography. That was when Schrader knew he had found the hook for the screenplay. Jake LaMotta 's autobiography, co-written with friend Peter Savage , omitted mention of his brother, as did Mardik Martin 's original screenplay.
Unhappy with the result, the producers hired Paul Schrader to restructure it, and in the course of doing research on LaMotta, the writer came across an article on the sour relationship between Jake and his brother Joey. Schrader even visited the real Joey, learning that the man was still bitter about giving up his own promising boxing career to manage Jake's. Schrader incorporated the relationship into the revised screenplay, co-opting the character of Peter Savage Jake's friend , and creating a composite of the two men in the person of Joey LaMotta.
That relationship became the central plot theme in the revised screenplay, and one of the primary reasons for the film's success. Robert De Niro kept a copy of Pauline Kael 's scathing review of the film with his penned in retorts such as, "So? Was voted the 4th best film of all time in AFI's 10th anniversary of the Years Jodie Foster didn't audition for this movie. Producers didn't find her suitable for the character of Vickie, and considered her as too young and tomboyish.
Despite that, she still wanted to get the role. Her mom thought about a way to convince the producers that Jodie was no longer the girl from Freaky Friday or Taxi Driver anymore, but a young woman. The result was a session with photographer Emilio Lari at a rented estate in Los Angeles in , when Jodie Foster was sixteen years old.
The pictures taken here later found their unauthorized way to adult magazines during the John Hinckley Jr.
Ranked 1 on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the genre "Sports", in June , just before Rocky Sharon Stone also auditioned for the role of Vicki LaMotta. Was voted the 5th Greatest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly. According to Martin Scorsese on the DVD commentary, this was going to be one of eight boxing movies to come out in Nicholas Colasanto 's character, Tommy Como, is based on the real-life mobster Frank Carbo , who basically ran all boxing in New York City during the s and s.
He eventually was sent to prison for conspiracy and extortion after being prosecuted by U. Attorney General Robert F. Before this film, cinematographer Michael Chapman had never shot in black and white.
Executives at United Artists were very reluctant to finance the film, as they were perturbed by the extreme profanity and violence in the screenplay. With some justification, as it transpired: at one point, it was doubtful whether the film would be released in the UK at all, due to its extreme nature.
The first film from the 80's to be inducted into the National Film Registry. The scenes of the younger Jake LaMotta begin with his first professional loss in a fight against Jimmy Reeves.
That fight took place on September 24, when LaMotta was just 19 years old. At the time these scenes were filmed, Robert De Niro was The word "fuck" is used one hundred fourteen times in this film. Irwin Winkler raised money for this movie by getting people in assisted living homes to be extras in the fighting scenes, and auctioning off radios and other props to them between takes. This film was selected into the National Film Registry in for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
John Turturro makes his film debut as the man at table at Webster Hall. The role of Jake LaMotta 's wife was the last to be cast. Cathy Moriarty was working as a desk girl and waitress in a burger restaurant, with only a few high school stage plays on her resume, but it was felt that she had the right amount of attitude for the part.
The others being Goodfellas , Casino and The Irishman Frank Vincent wasn't in The Irishman. Not only did the actor completely inhabit the role, but he underwent a major transformation to fully translate the boxer's life to screen. Obsessed with bringing Jake LaMotta's story to screen, De Niro wanted to showcase "the primal emotions" of La Motta to a middle-class audience as the actor explained to Vanity Fair.
While the film was directed by long-time collaborator Martin Scorsese , the film itself was totally a De Niro project. Training with La Motta for almost a year, Robert De Niro trained and boxed for over 1, rounds to add 20 pounds of muscle to his, at the time, pound frame according to Vanity Fair.
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