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
And then you think, oh, wait a minute, there s also zelig , there s also broadway danny rose , there s the purple rose of cairo . by the time you get to crimes and misdemeanors , woody allen has now expanded his sensibility. it s an ensemble piece, it s got some humor in it, and it s got some satire in it, but he s not trying to get a laugh every second. it s a wonderful moral conundrum from a very original standpoint. i think that s why it holds up. you told me over and over again you d leave miriam. we made plans. i didn t. you did. i gave up things for you. business opportunities. oh, pipe dreams. crimes and misdemeanors is two parallel stories, one of which is a very traditional woody allen and mia farrow relationship joke-fest, and the other one, which is a serious examination of literal life and death themes. a guy is having an affair and she s threatening to tell his wife and threatening to disrupt his world.