Raging Bull
| Raging Bull | |
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| Directed by | Martin Scorsese |
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| Based on | Raging Bull: My Story by
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| Starring | Robert De Niro |
| Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
| Edited by | Thelma Schoonmaker |
Production companies | Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.[1] |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 129 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million[3] |
| Box office | $23.4 million[3] |
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, which adapts Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story. Robert De Niro stars as LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion whose turbulent personal life is beset by rage and jealousy. Scorsese dedicated the film to Armenian-American NYU film professor Haig P. Manoogian.[4] The supporting cast includes Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role.
Scorsese was initially reluctant to develop the project, although he eventually came to relate with LaMotta's story. Schrader rewrote Martin's first screenplay, and Scorsese and De Niro together made uncredited contributions thereafter. Pesci was a relatively unknown actor prior to the film, as was Moriarty, whom Pesci recommended. During principal photography, each of the boxing scenes was choreographed for a specific visual style, and De Niro gained approximately 60 pounds (27 kg) to portray LaMotta in his later years. Scorsese was exacting in the process of editing and mixing the film, expecting it to be his last major feature.
Raging Bull premiered in New York City on November 14, 1980, and was released in theaters by United Artists on December 19. The film had a lukewarm box office of $23.4 million against its $18 million budget, and received mixed reviews from critics. While De Niro's performance and the editing were widely acclaimed, its violent content received criticism. Raging Bull received a leading eight nominations at the 53rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two: Best Actor for De Niro and Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker.[5]
In the decades since its release, Raging Bull has come to be considered one of the greatest films ever made. In 1990, it became the first film to be selected in its first year of eligibility for preservation in the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[6] In 2007 the American Film Institute ranked Raging Bull as the fourth-greatest American movie of all time.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Raging Bull". American Film Institute. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
- ↑ "Raging Bull". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
Approved Running time 128m 55s
- 1 2 "Raging Bull (1980) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- ↑ ""With Love and Resolution": An Appreciation". neh.gov. Archived from the original on July 1, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
- ↑ Raging Bull at Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ Gamarekian, Barbara (October 19, 1990). "Library of Congress Adds 25 Titles to National Film Registry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 4, 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Raging Bull on IMDb
