Unlike Rocky and other boxing films, Raging Bull is not an inspirational, rags-to-riches sports story. Raging Bull stars De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a man who rose from the low-income neighborhoods of the Bronx and became a middleweight boxing champion in the 1940s. The self-destructive director found himself connecting to the story of Jake LaMotta, and he eventually agreed to make Raging Bull, a painful portrait about the perils of turbulent jealousy-and one of the best films ever made. After the lukewarm critical and commercial reception of his big-budget romantic musical New York, New York, Scorsese had lapsed into a deep depression and severe cocaine addiction. Actor Robert De Niro-who would end up playing LaMotta-had been recommending the autobiography to Scorsese for years, but the director decided to pursue other projects. A complex and subtle film about the tragic and violent life of a prizefighter, it was based on boxer Jake LaMotta's autobiography. Raging Bull is a 1980 drama directed by one of the most respected American directors, Martin Scorsese.
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