The legendary actor became obsessed with bringing the story to the big screen and knew Scorsese was the only director right for the project.Īt first Scorsese turned down the offer to direct the film because he wasn’t a big fan of sports, he didn’t warm up to the material.
Originally, “Raging Bull” was a passion project of Robert De Niro, who first read the autobiography of the boxer while filming “The Godfather: Part II”. While many consider this film to be the director’s finest effort as a filmmaker, it’s also a film for many years he refused to make. “Raging Bull” has landed on the short list as one of the greatest films ever made and many film critics and fans agree that it’s the best film in Martin Scorsese’s storied career. Based on the real-life story of middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta, the film is less cinema and more like a documentary disguised as a movie. The iconic film “Raging Bull”, released in 1980 and directed by Martin Scorsese, has an unflinching realism and brutal honesty to it, captured in a surreal black-and-white world of anger, violence and redemption.
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