![]() ![]() ![]() It seems an extremely unsympathetic portrait that condemns LaMotta, yet it is based on his own book (with Joseph Carter). The very same violence and temper that rockets him to the top of the fight game destroys his life outside it. Scorsese was so startled by De Niro’s weight gain that he shut down production, fearing for the actor’s health.ĭe Niro portrays LaMotta in Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin’s screenplay as a brilliant prize-fighter in the ring but in private a self-destructive, repellent, sadistic man raging with paranoia and jealousy and with a strangely sentimental taste for male friendship. But then production shut down for four months and he scarily put on a then record 60 pounds to play the out-of-condition LaMotta. ![]() That same evening Sissy Spacek won her first Best Actress Oscar for playing singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) and Lynn was also in the audience.ĭe Niro had extensive physical training and entered in three Brooklyn boxing matches, winning two of them, to play the younger Jake LaMotta, the 1949 world middleweight boxing champion. Robert De Niro gives one of his most astounding performances, winning his second Oscar after his Best Supporting Actor award for The Godfather: Part II (1974), this time for Best Actor.īoxer Jake LaMotta was in the audience to witness De Niro’s victory at the Academy Awards on March 31 1981. Martin Scorsese’s 1980 movie Raging Bull is one of this great director’s finest as well as one of the most iconic key films of the Eighties. Raging Bull ***** (1980, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci) – Classic Movie Review 874 ![]()
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