Like most great movies, its focus is much deeper. This is the full fight."Raging Bull" isn't the average, stereotypical underdog boxing movie, because it isn't really about boxing at all. Valentine’s Day Massacre - and was 70 years ago next week. He stayed in his dressing room an hour and a half after the bout. He said it was the toughest of his six fights with Robinson who, by his conquest, automatically was relieved of his welterweight championship under Illinois and National Boxing association rules, which prohibit the holding of more than one weight title simultaneously. Although the appearance of the apparatus frightened Vickie LaMotta, the ex-champion's wife, there was nothing apparently physically wrong with Jake, except that he was exhausted from the rigors of making the required weight of 160 pounds and from the struggle itself. Jack Houston, chief medical examiner for the Illinois Athletic commission, immediately after he lost his middleweight title to Ray Robinson on a 13th round technical knockout in Chicago Stadium last night. Jake LaMotta was given a dose of oxygen by Dr. On the front page of the Chicago Tribune the next day, it was announced to the world that LaMotta intended to continue fighting “despite his humiliating experience.” How reality compared with Scorsese’s beautiful exaggerations. Still, I wondered if we could see how the real fights looked. Most of his fights are lost to the mists of time.
“The boxing sequences would be the arias,” Chapman says, contrasting with the very simply shot family sequences, which reveal the La Mottas to be “Italian peasant people who just happened to have been moved to the Bronx.” …an opera, in the verismo tradition of Cavalleria Rusticana (portions of which can be heard on the soundtrack) and Pagliacci.
Michael Chapman, Scorsese’s genius cinematographer who died in September 2020, told the same magazine that the film is… “Well, really, he was the head bouncer.” LaMotta was also once the middleweight champion of the world.ĭe Niro, touched in a strange way by LaMotta’s autobiography, spent almost 10 years convincing Martin Scorsese to make a film of the Bronx boxer’s life. “He was in charge of security there,” De Niro told Vanity Fair.
Robert De Niro met Jake LaMotta for the first time at a strip club on New York’s Seventh Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets some time around 1970. If you haven’t watched “Raging Bull,” consider killing yourself.
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