A boxing movie that dives deep into jealousy, insecurity and tragedy! Another powerful piece of filmmaking by Martin Scorsese! Thank you all for the support!
It's freaking awesome you guys watched this movie and put out a reaction. If I may request a couple others - BLEED FOR THIS (not the best movie. But its based on vinny paz ) real life boxer - SOUTHPAW (fictional story) but a pretty good movie - ALI (will Smith as Muhammad ali) - WE OWN THE NIGHT ( has nothing to do with boxing but I've been trying to get people to react to this movie. You would be the first) great movie IMO
Nice selection, good job, as usual. Please consider reacting to Oliver Stones "JFK", another great Joe Pesci performance. Also a great ensamble performance including: Kevin Costner, Sisy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, John Candy, Donald Sutherland, Ed Asner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Walter Mathau... (list goes on). I think it's Stones best work (that's saying alot). Looking forward to what's next, 🖖🏿!
Fun Fact: When the real Jake La Motta and Vicky were at a screening of the movie, at one point Jake turned to Vicky and said “ was I really that bad” referring to all the abuse and paranoia to which Vicky replied “ You were worse”
@@billparrish4385not really one of his last interviews kinda proved he never changed he went back on a lot of his own claims and said people exaggerated his actions how he never really raped a girl she just “resisted back” cause that’s what girls do sometimes pos really
Some context: Scorsese was at such a low point in his life before this movie. He’s last film kind of bombed and he almost died from a drug overdose. And when De Nito brought this book to him Scorsese saw a lot of himself in the character and didn’t really let the boxing genre aspects of his deter him. He was convinced Raging Bull would be his lash film so he practically poured everything in it; this is perhaps his best directed film and every aspect of this film shows how much he cared about this project. It’s such an incredible masterpiece.
@@stevenhernandeznon-profitf968 He did!! I thought he was dead for years then saw a little something about him on the news in 2017, a little before he died and I was shocked.
Considering that his style of boxing was to take 3 shots to land 1 it's pretty remarkable he didn't have early onset dementia, let alone living to 95. Whereas Sugar Ray Robinson who took far less punishment ultimately succumbed to alzheimer's at 67.
Pesci & Vincent were a nightclub comedy duo from '70 to '76. They were kinda like Abbott & Costello. They started out playing music in the same band & transitioned to comedy.
Theresa Saldana, the actress who played Joey’s wife, also had a starring role in 1990s tv show The Commish. Unfortunately she was attacked by a stalker and stabbed ten times. She survived and opened a victim’s advocacy group. A few years ago she died of pneumonia
The line he was rehearsing was from a movie which Marlon Brando was in called “On The Waterfront” (1954) in which Brando won his first Oscar for Best Actor
Cool fact: The scene when Jake gets clobbered by Sugar Ray Robinson with all the quick cuts and blood is a homage to the cutting of the shower scene in Psycho according to Martin Scorsese.
Robert DeNiro won the Oscar for best actor for this film. Also at the end the speech of I could of been a contender is a monologue Marlon Brando did in On the Waterfront (1954) another great film n great performance. Yeah Robert DeNiro won the Oscar for his performance in this film.
During his acceptance speech didn’t he mention he hoped to get Jake and his brother together for dinner to repair their relationship? Did that happen I think it did but so long ago thanks
YESSSSS FINALLY! Nobody on TH-cam ever reacts to this epic boxing classic Raging Bull! Robert De Niro won a Best Actor Oscar for this Masterpiece! After Robert De Niro trained hard to get his body in tip top shape to become a boxer, later his crazy azz actually took time off to gain 60 pounds putting his own health at risk to realistically portray Jake LaMotta during his downfall post retirement years. The bloody brutal 1951 Valentines Day massacre boxing match between Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Robinson is my favorite scene!
I know this is a bitter one to swallow! But man oh man, what an accomplishment. De Niro gained 60 pounds to play this part, something completely unheard of, back then. He filmed all his boxing sequences and all the young stuff first.....took six months, gained the weight, and filmed the rest of the movie. Then he dropped all that weight and was slim again in his next movie. He already was considered one of the greatest because of Mean Streets, Godfather Part 2, Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter. But this was the movie that sealed the deal. Gaining 60 pounds? Nobody did that. Following this up with the completely different "King Of Comedy" sealed it even more. /The ending is Brando's classic monologue from "On The Waterfront". And the "Raging Bull" ending is paid homage to in "Boogie Nights"!/Just so you know: not ALL of Scorsese's movies are gangster films! "The King Of Comedy", "After Hours", "Cape Fear" are three of his best and have nothing to do with gangsters, and are all very different, stylistically. ("Taxi Driver" doesn't have anything to do with the mob either.) He's also done lots and lots of other non-mob movies, some good, some not as good./Cathy Moriarty as Vicki Lamotta is so great in that movie! Joe Pesci himself discovered her!/ The guy Pesci beats up is the guy who they stab in the beginning of "Goodfellas". He finally gets to return the favor during Pesci's horrific death scene in "Casino".
"the guy Joey beats up", Frank Vincent, used to be in a comedy double act with Pesci, and before that they played in a jazz combo together. DeNiro brought them both to Marty's attention.
The Sugar Ray fight sequence where La Motta gets beaten to a pulp was directly inspired by the shower scene in Psycho. Watching those scenes back to back is a real assault on the senses, masterful filmmaking!
This movie was based on Jake Lamotta’s autobiography where apparently he was pretty open about his insecurities which led to his horrible personal life. Also Lamotta was born in 1922 so in 1940-41 when he met 15 yr old Vicky he would have been 18-19 yrs old himself. So not that big of an age difference between them. The speech he was rehearsing at the beginning with the “I could have been a contender” was a famous line from another movie with a boxer called On the Waterfront with Marlon Brando in the role as the fighter. He is backed up by a list of great supporting actors like Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Lee Cobb and others. You should consider checking that one out as well.
@@remyhavoc4463 I don’t know how common it was back then but both Elvis Presley and Jerry-Lee Lewis married young teenagers with only a certain amount of backlash. It did not turn into a scandal for Lewis I believe until he toured Europe and the British press got wind of it. So it must have been acceptable in some circles of the USA
Cathy Moriarty's performance in this was incredible and doesn't get talked about enough, I think. She got an Oscar nod and was only nineteen years old when this came out, and it was literally her first role in a movie!
My favorite film EVER is Taxi Driver, but Scorsese's best work was Raging Bull. Strictly cinematically. The B&W cinematography, the fight choreography, directing, the performances, everything was top shelf. That's saying something since ALL of Scorsese's work is like that, but there's something about Raging Bull that just makes it head and shoulders above the rest of his films. It's inexplicable, but obvious, to me at least.
Raging Bull has the best "music montage" of any film. It's cinematically beautiful and takes your breath away. For a moment, you guys didn't even notice it was in colour
Boxing back in the day was so much more brutal. Fighters might have two fights in the same month at times. Sugar Ray Robinson fought professionally for 15 years and had over 200 fights! Imagine that. Fighters nowadays will have 2-3 fights a year at most...younger fighters *might* have 4 or 5, at least they used to a couple decades ago, so even that might've changed. Not saying it was BETTER before (makes you wonder how these guys ever survived) but it's interesting seeing how different those things were treated back in the day.
Guys, if you've been enjoying De Niro's acting (which seems to be the case :) ) I recommend you watch The King of Comedy at some point. It's another Scorsese movie very few people actually talk about but imo it's another masterpiece of his and personally my favourite De Niro performance.
The line, "Try a little more fuckin' and a little less eatin', you won't have so much troubles in the bedroom and you won't take it out on me." Was improved by Joe Pesci
When Joey beats up the guy Jake’s wife is having drinks with, it’s the fear of what Jake will do to him if he finds out that makes him beat him up so badly. That’s the extent of the fear that Jake is causing in his family without understanding that he’s hurting those closest to him.
Well, LaMotta lived to be 95 (2017) and yeah, he was married 7 times and yeah, he admitted to doing horrible things in his life. The end was him rehearsing, cause he did want to be an actor, which was foreshadowing cause he did try being a theater actor in the 2012 (lasted one show).
Apparently, at the screening of this film back in 1980, Jake and Vicky were invited to watch the film and after watching a lot of it, Jake turned to Vicky and asked "Was I really that bad?" To which Vicky said "You were worse."
1:24 - I've always loved those opening titles and the music ("Intermezzo' from Mascagni's 'Cavalleria Rusticana"). I don't know how intentional it was but I noticed that the boxing ring ropes look like a staff of music - the three ropes in the foreground and the two in the background (the middle rope in the background is hidden behind the middle rope in the foreground) make five ropes just like the five lines of a staff of music. (I guess DeNiro dancing around on the left side would make him the treble clef.)
"Running in a sauna? I can't even sit in a sauna." 😂😂😂 Another classic Samantha line. You've got a funny wife there, TBR. PS: I can't sit in a sauna either. 😁 ✌&❤ from Illinois!
Such a great movie. One minor performance in this movie that always blows me away is Tommy the mob boss. His "I don't need to move for anyone" calm is terrifying.
I second the recommendation that you watch ON THE WATERFRONT soon. It's a classic that lent a lot of cultural DNA to RAGING BULL (and so many other modern dramas).
The actress who played Joey La Motta's wife was Theresa Saldana..She was brutally attacked by a crazed stalker with a knife, in real life, and nearly died..A movie was made about the attack...She passed away of Pneumonia in 2016, at age 61, unfortunately.
The last monologue at the mirror were actually the lines of Marlon Brando's character in ''On The Waterfront'' (1954) in backseat of the cab with his brother (Rod Steiger).
Scorsese was having trouble getting backing for the script. At one meeting, Scorsese and De Niro were told by the executive who had read it, “Why should anyone want to see a movie about a man who is just...a cockroach?” De Niro looked the guy right in the eye and said quietly, “He’s not a cockroach...He is NOT a cockroach.”
If you listen somewhat carefully during the fight scenes you can hear some really bizarre sound effects. The guy who did the sound design supposedly found crates of old and totally random clips in a studio vault. He looped in a lot of pissed off animal noises. Elephants charging, horses snorting, lions roaring, etc.
In the third sugar ray fight the ref was the real Jake. Also when he wins the belt the ref. They do the slow close up shot of the ref; the real Jake walking across the ring.
I've been told by professional boxers that this is the best realistic depiction of boxing in movies! As in the dark gritty life of a boxer making it to the belt championship! it's great
Jake LaMotta was a classic fighter who lived in the wrong time. If he had lived 500 or 1000 years earlier, he would have gone down in history as a legendary hero and warrior, and historians would still be studying him and his deeds today. But in the time in which LaMotta lived there was no place for people with such extreme characteristics. His failing was tragic and inevitable.
My dad lived very close to the neighborhood where Lamada lived. My dad also boxed for the Golden Gloves and N.Y. C. Department of Parks and remembered seeing Lamada train. My dad had lots of of great old New York storys . R.I.P. dad😢.
This is definitely a hard movie to process on the first watch, but by the 3rd time I watch it the last words of the movie made me finally understand it: "All I know is this: Once I was blind and now I can see."
It's almost like Scorsese said to De Niro on day 1, 'You see that title? That's your motivation. That's how you play him." If there ever was an actual raging bull, it's this character! Which does have a kind of unity, like the characteristic that made him a winning fighter made him a loser in every other area.
My favorite performance by Robert DeNiro is in "Cape Fear" by Martin Scorsese. You must see that. Favorite films by Scorsese are "The Last Temptation of Christ" w/ Willem Defoe, "After Hours" w/ Griffin Dunne, and "The Aviator" w/ Leonardo DiCaprio.
Thank you for reacting to this film. De Niro actually gained the weight for the second part of the film and Martin Scorcese makes a cameo appearance in the dressing room at the very end.
DeNiro's acting 'chops', in his early work, was amazing. You should do "DEERHUNTER" next. For some reason, no reactor will go near that film. It was one of his best efforts, in my opinion.
This is my favorite movie of all time, and I watch it at least once a year. The performances are above critique, and I love dramas that teach you what NOT to be as a person. The animal screams during the fight scenes are so telling, so masterful. This needs to to be watched at high volume. I've never seen a "perfect" movie, no useless scenes, misplaced songs, trope dialogue. There are a couple of camera shots the I would have changed, but this is as close to perfect as I have seen.
34:07 Sam: "It....it was a shit show." LOL! The Mad magazine parody of this was called "Raging Bully"!/ Hey, Scorsese fans, a very rare "After Hours" reaction was done last week on a small (but good!) channel, so if you want to do a Scorsese-reaction double feature, here it is: th-cam.com/video/As9U7ifp2bU/w-d-xo.html Enjoy!
"Raging Bull" is an example of a "Tragedy". Most people have heard of ancient Greek tragedies, but few are attempted in modern times for fear, of bumming out the audience too much, but they can illustrate important life lessons.
Scorsese was being celebrated when I saw this. Hard to grasp so much that happened! His best. Other than Hard Times about the streets. Love him! Nuts! I am the 300th like!
Another movie that Pesci has an interesting bit part is Oliver Stone’s JFK. Good movie to review in November for the anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination
Its not painful after a fight after the adrenaline wears off, its painful the next day for about a week after a professional fight. I've felt it up to a week, but it doesn't sit in until the next morning. I learned to stay up for the first night into the next afternoon. First to protect against a concussion and second, because I wouldn't be hurting so bad.
The film critics did a poll of what was the best film of the 1980's(1980-1990) take a look at the list of all the movies made in those 10 years and they picked this movie. So they said every movie made after this movie came in second.
My favourite Scorsese film and also favourite DeNiro film. Incredible. But the last words from "On the waterfront" made it spectacular, what a great reference! Also "Could've been a contender" is my favourite dialogue from one of my favourite movies from past. Marlon Brando was terrific in that and gave a ground breaking performance. His revolutionary performance changed the way of acting in Hollywood. People of today's generation don't realise how great "On the waterfront" is but at that time there was nothing like that seen before.
The movie is actually adapted from his biography "Raging Bull, my story" I read it back in highschool and he was a street fighter in his preteens his father would take him to back rooms in bars and the adults would bet on the kids fighting and his dad would use the money for the rent and his booze Jake and his best friend Pete got busted for theft during the great depression and he ended up in juvenile detention and the chaplain encouraged him to sign up for the boxing team and from there went pro, very good book y'all should check it out if you like to read👍
It is probably one of tge saddest movie ever made. Yet by the time the movie was made Jake LaMotta was in a food place mentally, his life was going well, he loved his job of running his restaurant and telling stories to his customers and he had made peace with his ex-wife and they even became good pals.
@@lexkanyima2195 New York, New York (1977) was a great disappointment, it was his effort to go more mainstream. He thought Hollywood was never going to accept him. Raging Bull was a final crescendo and Scorsese likely put all his soul into it.
@@lexkanyima2195 Taxi Driver (1976) was well received but Scorsese went thru hell to get it finished to his vision. You may recall the tall tale told by Tarantino of Scorsese pondering to kill the head of Columbia Pictures for wanting him to completely change the ending. He was very unstable in those 70's days, feeling spiritually fallen and insecure for himself. You should read his autobiography, it's really good and insightful.
Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino all based on true stories with De Niro, Pesci and Frank Vincent. Pesci only did a few movies before this one. You’ll have to watch The Irishman next, for a modern take on the trio of Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci
One of my top 10 Movies of all time. It's got everything. First watched it in the eighties and loved it then. This is proper CInema and what it should be.
Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy are also great Scorses/Deniro collaborations. Taxi Driver is my fav and The King of Comedy is highly underated
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A boxing movie that dives deep into jealousy, insecurity and tragedy! Another powerful piece of filmmaking by Martin Scorsese!
Thank you all for the support!
It's freaking awesome you guys watched this movie and put out a reaction. If I may request a couple others
- BLEED FOR THIS (not the best movie. But its based on vinny paz ) real life boxer
- SOUTHPAW (fictional story) but a pretty good movie
- ALI (will Smith as Muhammad ali)
- WE OWN THE NIGHT ( has nothing to do with boxing but I've been trying to get people to react to this movie. You would be the first) great movie IMO
Watch "SARDAR UDHAM"
It is the most underrated masterpiece of this year....
This is a must watch
Jake LaMotta retired from boxing in 1954 , he died at age 95 in Florida in 2017 , after boxing career he did do some acting in TV series and movies .
Nice selection, good job, as usual. Please consider reacting to Oliver Stones "JFK", another great Joe Pesci performance. Also a great ensamble performance including: Kevin Costner, Sisy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, John Candy, Donald Sutherland, Ed Asner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Walter Mathau... (list goes on). I think it's Stones best work (that's saying alot). Looking forward to what's next, 🖖🏿!
You shouldn't look on it as a 'boxing movie'. It was a biopic.
Fun Fact: When the real Jake La Motta and Vicky were at a screening of the movie, at one point Jake turned to Vicky and said “ was I really that bad” referring to all the abuse and paranoia to which Vicky replied “ You were worse”
I love that story. It says he got some kind of perspective, eventually.
Damn. That’s rough.
@@billparrish4385not really one of his last interviews kinda proved he never changed he went back on a lot of his own claims and said people exaggerated his actions how he never really raped a girl she just “resisted back” cause that’s what girls do sometimes pos really
Some context: Scorsese was at such a low point in his life before this movie. He’s last film kind of bombed and he almost died from a drug overdose. And when De Nito brought this book to him Scorsese saw a lot of himself in the character and didn’t really let the boxing genre aspects of his deter him. He was convinced Raging Bull would be his lash film so he practically poured everything in it; this is perhaps his best directed film and every aspect of this film shows how much he cared about this project. It’s such an incredible masterpiece.
The fact Jake lived to be 95 years old is amazing.
He did?!?!?!?
@@stevenhernandeznon-profitf968 He did!! I thought he was dead for years then saw a little something about him on the news in 2017, a little before he died and I was shocked.
I just remembered Doug Stanhope's bit on him lol
Considering that his style of boxing was to take 3 shots to land 1 it's pretty remarkable he didn't have early onset dementia, let alone living to 95. Whereas Sugar Ray Robinson who took far less punishment ultimately succumbed to alzheimer's at 67.
@@allyourmoney very true thanks for the info
What a ferocious performance by De Niro in this movie, he thoroughly deserved the Oscar he won for Best Actor.
The guy that Joey beat up for Vickie sitting with him was Billy Bats(guy in the trunk) in Goodfellas.
Frank Vincent is his name
Pesci & Vincent were a nightclub comedy duo from '70 to '76. They were kinda like Abbott & Costello. They started out playing music in the same band & transitioned to comedy.
I find it hilariously interesting that the two have a memorable confrontation in all three Scorsese's movies they were in together.
@@DreamyWoIf Yeah, it's a trilogy of fights. Pesci beats up Vincent in Raging Bull and Goodfellas, but Vincent gets his revenge in Casino!
Theresa Saldana, the actress who played Joey’s wife, also had a starring role in 1990s tv show The Commish.
Unfortunately she was attacked by a stalker and stabbed ten times. She survived and opened a victim’s advocacy group. A few years ago she died of pneumonia
She was a very accomplished actress in her own right. And a good person.
The line he was rehearsing was from a movie which Marlon Brando was in called “On The Waterfront” (1954) in which Brando won his first Oscar for Best Actor
Fitting since Raging Bull is the film that won Robert DeNiro his first Best Actor Oscar.
Cool fact: The scene when Jake gets clobbered by Sugar Ray Robinson with all the quick cuts and blood is a homage to the cutting of the shower scene in Psycho according to Martin Scorsese.
Good shit, 🖖🏿!
I just talked to Martin. He said it wasn't.
An emotionally and physically brutal film. One of the best of all time. So glad we got a reaction to this.
Robert DeNiro won the Oscar for best actor for this film. Also at the end the speech of I could of been a contender is a monologue Marlon Brando did in On the Waterfront (1954) another great film n great performance. Yeah Robert DeNiro won the Oscar for his performance in this film.
During his acceptance speech didn’t he mention he hoped to get Jake and his brother together for dinner to repair their relationship? Did that happen I think it did but so long ago thanks
YESSSSS FINALLY! Nobody on TH-cam ever reacts to this epic boxing classic Raging Bull! Robert De Niro won a Best Actor Oscar for this Masterpiece! After Robert De Niro trained hard to get his body in tip top shape to become a boxer, later his crazy azz actually took time off to gain 60 pounds putting his own health at risk to realistically portray Jake LaMotta during his downfall post retirement years. The bloody brutal 1951 Valentines Day massacre boxing match between Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Robinson is my favorite scene!
I know this is a bitter one to swallow! But man oh man, what an accomplishment. De Niro gained 60 pounds to play this part, something completely unheard of, back then. He filmed all his boxing sequences and all the young stuff first.....took six months, gained the weight, and filmed the rest of the movie. Then he dropped all that weight and was slim again in his next movie. He already was considered one of the greatest because of Mean Streets, Godfather Part 2, Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter. But this was the movie that sealed the deal. Gaining 60 pounds? Nobody did that. Following this up with the completely different "King Of Comedy" sealed it even more. /The ending is Brando's classic monologue from "On The Waterfront". And the "Raging Bull" ending is paid homage to in "Boogie Nights"!/Just so you know: not ALL of Scorsese's movies are gangster films! "The King Of Comedy", "After Hours", "Cape Fear" are three of his best and have nothing to do with gangsters, and are all very different, stylistically. ("Taxi Driver" doesn't have anything to do with the mob either.) He's also done lots and lots of other non-mob movies, some good, some not as good./Cathy Moriarty as Vicki Lamotta is so great in that movie! Joe Pesci himself discovered her!/ The guy Pesci beats up is the guy who they stab in the beginning of "Goodfellas". He finally gets to return the favor during Pesci's horrific death scene in "Casino".
"the guy Joey beats up", Frank Vincent, used to be in a comedy double act with Pesci, and before that they played in a jazz combo together. DeNiro brought them both to Marty's attention.
The Sugar Ray fight sequence where La Motta gets beaten to a pulp was directly inspired by the shower scene in Psycho. Watching those scenes back to back is a real assault on the senses, masterful filmmaking!
Jake Lamotta had two children both pass away in 1998. One died of cancer and one was in a fatal plane crash. Lamotta’s life was insane.
This movie was based on Jake Lamotta’s autobiography where apparently he was pretty open about his insecurities which led to his horrible personal life.
Also Lamotta was born in 1922 so in 1940-41 when he met 15 yr old Vicky he would have been 18-19 yrs old himself. So not that big of an age difference between them.
The speech he was rehearsing at the beginning with the “I could have been a contender” was a famous line from another movie with a boxer called On the Waterfront with Marlon Brando in the role as the fighter. He is backed up by a list of great supporting actors like Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Lee Cobb and others. You should consider checking that one out as well.
The real Vicki was born in 1930. They met in 1945 and were married in 1946.
Your math is off. They were born 8 years apart, so when she was 15 he would be 23, kinda f*ckd up
Didn't he have a wife before Vicky?
He got married when he was a teenager?😂
Was that common back then
@@remyhavoc4463 I don’t know how common it was back then but both Elvis Presley and Jerry-Lee Lewis married young teenagers with only a certain amount of backlash. It did not turn into a scandal for Lewis I believe until he toured Europe and the British press got wind of it. So it must have been acceptable in some circles of the USA
Deniro’s Oscar winning performance. Great reaction!
Cathy Moriarty's performance in this was incredible and doesn't get talked about enough, I think. She got an Oscar nod and was only nineteen years old when this came out, and it was literally her first role in a movie!
My favorite film EVER is Taxi Driver, but Scorsese's best work was Raging Bull. Strictly cinematically. The B&W cinematography, the fight choreography, directing, the performances, everything was top shelf. That's saying something since ALL of Scorsese's work is like that, but there's something about Raging Bull that just makes it head and shoulders above the rest of his films. It's inexplicable, but obvious, to me at least.
I agree taxi driver is also my favourite film ever but this is up there. Also pls do a taxt driver react I wanna hear your opinions on it.
@@jackwillcox9330 Yeah, I'm surprised they haven't done it yet.
Raging Bull is my #1 movie ever
@@FirebirdCamaro1220 I can't argue with you. Bull is quite arguably his most complete film.
@@DesertsofHibernia I'll have to check that out. Thanks.
Raging Bull has the best "music montage" of any film. It's cinematically beautiful and takes your breath away. For a moment, you guys didn't even notice it was in colour
I saw it in the theater in 1980. As I left the theater, which was packed, I noticed Tommy 'The Hitman' Hearns walking in front of me.
great ending with Martin Scorcese's cameo and the lines from On the Waterfront (1954) with Marlon Brando!
De Niro actually won 2 out of 3 fights in real life and then actually put on weight for older scenes. Oscar well deserved
Boxing back in the day was so much more brutal. Fighters might have two fights in the same month at times. Sugar Ray Robinson fought professionally for 15 years and had over 200 fights! Imagine that. Fighters nowadays will have 2-3 fights a year at most...younger fighters *might* have 4 or 5, at least they used to a couple decades ago, so even that might've changed. Not saying it was BETTER before (makes you wonder how these guys ever survived) but it's interesting seeing how different those things were treated back in the day.
Guys, if you've been enjoying De Niro's acting (which seems to be the case :) ) I recommend you watch The King of Comedy at some point. It's another Scorsese movie very few people actually talk about but imo it's another masterpiece of his and personally my favourite De Niro performance.
The line, "Try a little more fuckin' and a little less eatin', you won't have so much troubles in the bedroom and you won't take it out on me." Was improved by Joe Pesci
One of the greatest films ever made.
La Motta was known for saying, "I fought Sugar so many times it's a wonder I don't have diabetes."
When Jake is sobbing after throwing that fight, gets me every time. When they cut to his cornerman…God damn Scorcese is a genius.
I love this film. The opening credits are perfect, a man alone in the ring fighting his own demons with Intermezzo playing.
When Joey beats up the guy Jake’s wife is having drinks with, it’s the fear of what Jake will do to him if he finds out that makes him beat him up so badly. That’s the extent of the fear that Jake is causing in his family without understanding that he’s hurting those closest to him.
Well, LaMotta lived to be 95 (2017) and yeah, he was married 7 times and yeah, he admitted to doing horrible things in his life. The end was him rehearsing, cause he did want to be an actor, which was foreshadowing cause he did try being a theater actor in the 2012 (lasted one show).
Apparently, at the screening of this film back in 1980, Jake and Vicky were invited to watch the film and after watching a lot of it, Jake turned to Vicky and asked "Was I really that bad?" To which Vicky said "You were worse."
1:24 - I've always loved those opening titles and the music ("Intermezzo' from Mascagni's 'Cavalleria Rusticana"). I don't know how intentional it was but I noticed that the boxing ring ropes look like a staff of music - the three ropes in the foreground and the two in the background (the middle rope in the background is hidden behind the middle rope in the foreground) make five ropes just like the five lines of a staff of music. (I guess DeNiro dancing around on the left side would make him the treble clef.)
"Running in a sauna? I can't even sit in a sauna." 😂😂😂 Another classic Samantha line. You've got a funny wife there, TBR.
PS: I can't sit in a sauna either. 😁
✌&❤ from Illinois!
Me either! I don’t even like hot showers!🤣
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 😂😂😂
Such a great movie. One minor performance in this movie that always blows me away is Tommy the mob boss. His "I don't need to move for anyone" calm is terrifying.
I second the recommendation that you watch ON THE WATERFRONT soon. It's a classic that lent a lot of cultural DNA to RAGING BULL (and so many other modern dramas).
Second that! Asap!
With the line "I could have been a contender" which Jake quotes when he's practicing his monologue.
The actress who played Joey La Motta's wife was Theresa Saldana..She was brutally attacked by a crazed stalker with a knife, in real life, and nearly died..A movie was made about the attack...She passed away of Pneumonia in 2016, at age 61, unfortunately.
The last monologue at the mirror were actually the lines of Marlon Brando's character in ''On The Waterfront'' (1954) in backseat of the cab with his brother (Rod Steiger).
Scorsese was having trouble getting backing for the script. At one meeting, Scorsese and De Niro were told by the executive who had read it, “Why should anyone want to see a movie about a man who is just...a cockroach?” De Niro looked the guy right in the eye and said quietly, “He’s not a cockroach...He is NOT a cockroach.”
Jake Lamotta did the audio commentary for the DVD release of Raging Bull not too long before he died. An entertaining listen to say the least.
The real Jake and Vicki were at the premiere and after it was over he asked her if he was really that bad and she said "You were worse."
24:29 Jake LaMotta's style was to let fighters hit him and when they punched themselves out, he would attack.
If you listen somewhat carefully during the fight scenes you can hear some really bizarre sound effects. The guy who did the sound design supposedly found crates of old and totally random clips in a studio vault. He looped in a lot of pissed off animal noises. Elephants charging, horses snorting, lions roaring, etc.
It’s used to represent LaMotta’s animalistic nature, great effect!
Bro, I’ve been watching this movie for years. And it’s not until I saw your video, and you pointed it out where I realize that the montage is in color
The "walk out" scene for the La Motta vs. Cerdan fight might be one of the most beautiful shots of all time.
In the third sugar ray fight the ref was the real Jake.
Also when he wins the belt the ref. They do the slow close up shot of the ref; the real Jake walking across the ring.
25:55 Scorsese patterned the editing of this sequence of Lamota getting pummeled after the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
I've been told by professional boxers that this is the best realistic depiction of boxing in movies!
As in the dark gritty life of a boxer making it to the belt championship!
it's great
Exactly now I want to see one about being a professional UFC/MMA fighter.
Jake LaMotta was a classic fighter who lived in the wrong time. If he had lived 500 or 1000 years earlier, he would have gone down in history as a legendary hero and warrior, and historians would still be studying him and his deeds today. But in the time in which LaMotta lived there was no place for people with such extreme characteristics. His failing was tragic and inevitable.
Can you imagine if Jake fought Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson that would be interesting
This is a film about Jake La Motta, a fearless champion who, outside the ring, fought with demons that were devouring him from within.
They already know that dipshit
This and Taxi Driver are two of the most crazy films Martin Scorsese has ever done.
The Wolf of Wall Street is pretty nuts too.
Bringing Out The Dead too (forgotten Scorcese film from the late 90s, also the last Scorcese film to be written by Paul Schrader)
This movie was considered the best film of the 80s by many publications.
Nice review. Whenever I think of this movie I think of the very brief reference to it in the movie *Waiting for Guffman* .
My dad lived very close to the neighborhood where Lamada lived. My dad also boxed for the Golden Gloves and N.Y. C. Department of Parks and remembered seeing Lamada train. My dad had lots of of great old New York storys . R.I.P. dad😢.
yeah I thought going into it, it was gonna be about boxing, but really it’s about the fall of a boxer..incredible film
This is definitely a hard movie to process on the first watch, but by the 3rd time I watch it the last words of the movie made me finally understand it:
"All I know is this: Once I was blind and now I can see."
Great choice!! And another great reaction by 2 of you amazing people!! Love you guys!! Your Croatian fan!!
It's almost like Scorsese said to De Niro on day 1, 'You see that title? That's your motivation. That's how you play him." If there ever was an actual raging bull, it's this character!
Which does have a kind of unity, like the characteristic that made him a winning fighter made him a loser in every other area.
My favorite performance by Robert DeNiro is in "Cape Fear" by Martin Scorsese. You must see that. Favorite films by Scorsese are "The Last Temptation of Christ" w/ Willem Defoe, "After Hours" w/ Griffin Dunne, and "The Aviator" w/ Leonardo DiCaprio.
Thank you for reacting to this film. De Niro actually gained the weight for the second part of the film and Martin Scorcese makes a cameo appearance in the dressing room at the very end.
Check out 'Midnight Run' for De Niro's best comedic turn. His chemistry with Charles Grodin is miraculous.
I concur!
Fuckin love that movie!! Funny shit🤣🤣🤣
Analyze This as well (but not the sequel)
The movie becomes even more interesting to me when you realize that it is a real story, the man was real; really something.
DeNiro's acting 'chops', in his early work, was amazing. You should do "DEERHUNTER" next. For some reason, no reactor will go near that film. It was one of his best efforts, in my opinion.
Because its about 10 hours long.
It’s an amazing movie but a tough watch at times……just like Raging Bull!
Considered the greatest film of the 1980's by the AFI.
The American Film Institute ranked this as the 2nd greatest movie of all time only behind Citizen Kane.
This is my favorite movie of all time, and I watch it at least once a year. The performances are above critique, and I love dramas that teach you what NOT to be as a person.
The animal screams during the fight scenes are so telling, so masterful. This needs to to be watched at high volume. I've never seen a "perfect" movie, no useless scenes, misplaced songs, trope dialogue. There are a couple of camera shots the I would have changed, but this is as close to perfect as I have seen.
34:07 Sam: "It....it was a shit show." LOL! The Mad magazine parody of this was called "Raging Bully"!/ Hey, Scorsese fans, a very rare "After Hours" reaction was done last week on a small (but good!) channel, so if you want to do a Scorsese-reaction double feature, here it is: th-cam.com/video/As9U7ifp2bU/w-d-xo.html Enjoy!
Dope video I am enjoying your channel keep it up ✌🏽
14:49 “he seems to be killing him”😂😂
Thank you both . As always
"Raging Bull" is an example of a "Tragedy". Most people have heard of ancient Greek tragedies, but few are attempted in modern times for fear, of bumming out the audience too much, but they can illustrate important life lessons.
Great reaction, unbelievably his autobiography is a lot more brutal.
Saw it at a secondhand bookstore. Read the first few pages. Did not buy it.
Scorsese was being celebrated when I saw this. Hard to grasp so much that happened! His best. Other than Hard Times about the streets. Love him! Nuts! I am the 300th like!
The color footage was their home movies.
you can see the real LaMotta make a cameo appearance as a bartender in the Hustler,a movie about a pool player(recommended).
One of my top ten favorite films. Thank for watching
Another movie that Pesci has an interesting bit part is Oliver Stone’s JFK. Good movie to review in November for the anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination
DeNiro has a comedic cameo as a heating engineer in the movie Brazil.
I've heard it said that Casino is basically Raging Bull if Robert DiNero was the good guy and everyone else was the bad guy.
DeNiro packed on 20 lbs of muscle for the Young Jake and then ballooned up a total of 60 lbs in 4 months to play the older washed up Jake.
Its not painful after a fight after the adrenaline wears off, its painful the next day for about a week after a professional fight. I've felt it up to a week, but it doesn't sit in until the next morning. I learned to stay up for the first night into the next afternoon. First to protect against a concussion and second, because I wouldn't be hurting so bad.
The opening sequence/credits with Jake in slow motion is better than most movies. Great reaction!
The film critics did a poll of what was the best film of the 1980's(1980-1990) take a look at the list of all the movies made in those 10 years and they picked this movie. So they said every movie made after this movie came in second.
This is a film that benefits from multiple viewings.......a masterpiece in cinema
My favourite Scorsese film and also favourite DeNiro film. Incredible.
But the last words from "On the waterfront" made it spectacular, what a great reference!
Also "Could've been a contender" is my favourite dialogue from one of my favourite movies from past. Marlon Brando was terrific in that and gave a ground breaking performance. His revolutionary performance changed the way of acting in Hollywood. People of today's generation don't realise how great "On the waterfront" is but at that time there was nothing like that seen before.
The movie is actually adapted from his biography "Raging Bull, my story" I read it back in highschool and he was a street fighter in his preteens his father would take him to back rooms in bars and the adults would bet on the kids fighting and his dad would use the money for the rent and his booze Jake and his best friend Pete got busted for theft during the great depression and he ended up in juvenile detention and the chaplain encouraged him to sign up for the boxing team and from there went pro, very good book y'all should check it out if you like to read👍
I had such a crush on Cathy Moriarty from the movie "Neighbors", so I was riveted to this when I saw a it in high school a few years later. :D
It is probably one of tge saddest movie ever made. Yet by the time the movie was made Jake LaMotta was in a food place mentally, his life was going well, he loved his job of running his restaurant and telling stories to his customers and he had made peace with his ex-wife and they even became good pals.
Scorsese made "Raging Bull" in catharsis, believing it was going to be his last film.
Why ? Would it be a failure for his career ?
@@lexkanyima2195 New York, New York (1977) was a great disappointment, it was his effort to go more mainstream. He thought Hollywood was never going to accept him. Raging Bull was a final crescendo and Scorsese likely put all his soul into it.
@@omarharo3132 was it pressure after Taxi Driver ? It was really well but you mentioned New York, New York was a letdown. But he was on a roll
@@lexkanyima2195 Taxi Driver (1976) was well received but Scorsese went thru hell to get it finished to his vision. You may recall the tall tale told by Tarantino of Scorsese pondering to kill the head of Columbia Pictures for wanting him to completely change the ending. He was very unstable in those 70's days, feeling spiritually fallen and insecure for himself. You should read his autobiography, it's really good and insightful.
A sports film you may like to add to your reactions , THE CHAMP with Jon Voight and Rick Shroeder ,have the tissues ready.
Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino all based on true stories with De Niro, Pesci and Frank Vincent. Pesci only did a few movies before this one. You’ll have to watch The Irishman next, for a modern take on the trio of Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci
Sugar ray Robinson is considered by many as pound for pound best ever 👍
LaMotta had a small acting career. This is based on his memoirs and he and Vikki remained friends until her death in 2005. He died in 2017.
Classic piece of American cinema. Scorsese is a friggin' genius!!!!
I hope you guys react to Taxi Driver next it's my favorite Scorsese film
We definitely will be watching Taxi Driver!
@@TBRSchmitt You talking to us? You talking to us? 😎
One of my top 10 Movies of all time. It's got everything. First watched it in the eighties and loved it then. This is proper CInema and what it should be.
This movie won Robert De Niro an Oscar for Best Actor which was his second after The Godfather Part 2
Well deserved!
Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy are also great Scorses/Deniro collaborations. Taxi Driver is my fav and The King of Comedy is highly underated
Hi guys, you should check out Heat with De Niro and Al Pacino. It's a great crime drama.