robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor finds 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 of the black-and-white gore, the violence of the flash bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty, he purposefully didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, you never went down, ray. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing movies, but it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake, based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. he was just so contr
Who is not only out of his element but out of his shoes. that is a great thing to do in an action movie. i don t know what it is like to throw a chair with explosives down an elevator shaft. but i accidentally trod on glass and it hurt. you watch him and you think i see myself. this person who is flawed, but can overcome it which is i think a narrative we all have about ourselves. if push came to shove, i would show up. alan rickman s performance as hans gruber is one of the key movie performances of the 80s . the idea that the villain could be intellectual, it wasn t a beefy villain who beat up our hero, but was a guy our hero had to out-think. a lot of action stars think it is cool to show no fear. to me that is a stupid person. the courageous person is the one who has fear. and goes through it anyway.