Much of the film has an improvisational quality, which makes the story seem very real, but which is also rather dull.īy contrast, the fight sequences are highly stylized - to the point the filmmaker’s technique is overly obvious. Scorsese goes overboard in an attempt at low-keyed naturalism, however, and there is little dramatic structure to the biographical overview. From this opening, it flashes back to 1941 and his loss to Jimmy Reeves (Floyd Anderson), and then proceeds to scan events in La Motta’s life and his major fights. The film is framed with scenes of La Motta preparing for a concert reading in New York in 1964. There is only one brief moment in the film - when La Motta breaks down and cries after he has thrown a fight in order to get a chance at the championship - that the character is even the least bit sympathetic. It’s a downbeat study of a man whose only concern is winning the middleweight championship and whose unfounded jealousy and violent temper alienated everyone around him. “It had heart,” he said.'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi': THR's 1983 Reviewīased on La Motta’s autobiography, which was written with Joseph Carter and Peter Aavage, the screenplay by Paul Schader and Maardik Martin makes no attempt to glamorize the fighter’s life. In a 2013 interview with Time, the actor recalled reading La Motta’s memoir for the first time and being moved by his story. Though Scorsese directed the movie, it was De Niro’s idea to make the film-to the point where it became his obsession. To boxing and film fans, La Motta will forever be known as the Raging Bull, an unforgettable fighter and subject of the eponymous black-and-white drama, which starred a young De Niro as the hotheaded champ. In a short statement, Robert De Niro acknowledged La Motta’s passing: “Rest in Peace, Champ.”
“I just want people to know, he was a great, sweet, sensitive, strong, compelling man with a great sense of humor, with eyes that danced,” she told the outlet. TMZ first reported the news on Wednesday, revealing that the boxer’s wife said he died in a nursing home due to complications from pneumonia. Jack La Motta, the fiery boxer whose life story was immortalized in the 1980 Martin Scorsese-directed film Raging Bull, has died.
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