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Raging Bull: How Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Joe Pesci have retold the film s story Raging Bull, the dark and unrelenting story of violent boxer Jake LaMotta, is widely considered among the greatest films ever made, and certainly one of actor Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese s finest works. For the past year, British writer Jay Glennie has been working with De Niro and Scorsese to tell the story of how the film was made.
When you re chatting to Robert De Niro, you re told to call him Bob. For Jay Glennie, a writer from Essex who had first tried his luck emailing representatives for the star towards the end of 2016, it initially felt strange. This was
Raging Bull (1980).
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It’s the movie that won Robert De Niro his Oscar for Best Actor. It’s the movie that earned Martin Scorsese his first nomination for Best Director. It’s the movie where the guy who would later play Coach on
Cheers sees a handsome boxer get mutilated and says, “He ain’t pretty no more.” It’s
Raging Bull, and it will punch you in the face. Here are 15 facts to enhance your next viewing of one of the best sports dramas ever made.
1.
Rocky.
Comparisons to that other Oscar-winning boxing movie from four years earlier were inevitable, but the two were actually connected.