come on! come on, come on, what are you staring for? come on! robinson apparently tired, punched with a fairly well and rocked jake lamotta right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor find a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. i think raging bull is a great title and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all the black and white gore. the violence of the flashbulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty purposefully, he didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, never went down, man. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing because it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake lamotta, who was based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really unde
He s completely unique. you start noticing the black and white stripes on things and just the vibe and you feel like, we ve really got something here with this guy. we did beetlejuice , and his basic idea was that the living people would be scary and the dead people would be the kind of banal. i was very lucky early on in my career to work with people that had come from comedy that were good at improvving. somebody like michael, that s his background. so there s a whole different energy when people are there and there may be some written things, but then it just goes off, you know, and you start riffing and you start getting into it. he was great at that. just, he s like a pressure cooker. you like it? beetlejuice is really underrated. as well regarded as it is, it s still underrated. because it shouldn t work. like, i don t know if it s a horror movie set in a comedy, or a comedy that s a horror movie. i can t figure out the algorithm behind it, but it works. six foot,