Raging Bull (2/12) Movie CLIP - You Want Your Steak? (1980) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Jake (
Robert De Niro) and his wife (
Theresa Saldana) fight over the steak she is cooking him, amongst other things.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer
Jake La Motta, a violent man in and out of the ring who thrives on his ability (and desire) to take a beating.
Opening with the spectacle of the over-the-hill La
Motta (Robert De Niro) practicing his
1960s night-club act, the film flashes back to
1940s New York, when Jake's career is on the rise.
Despite pressure from the local mobsters, Jake trusts his brother
Joey (
Joe Pesci) to help him make it to a title bout against
Sugar Ray Robinson the honest way; the Mob, however, will not cave in. Jake gets the title bout, and blonde teenage second wife Vickie (
Cathy Moriarty), but success does nothing to exorcise his demons, even as he channels his rage into boxing. Alienating Vickie and Joey, and disastrously gaining weight, Jake has destroyed his personal and professional lives by the
1950s. After he hits bottom, however, Jake emerges with a gleam of self-awareness, as he sits rehearsing
Marlon Brando's
On the Waterfront speech in his dressing room mirror: "
I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody."
Working with a script adapted by
Mardik Martin and
Paul Schrader from La Motta's memoirs,
Scorsese and
De Niro sought to make an uncompromising portrait of an unlikable man and his ruthless profession. Eschewing uplifting Rocky-like boxing movie conventions, their Jake is relentlessly cruel and self-destructive; the only
peace he can make is with himself.
Michael Chapman's stark black-and-white photography creates a documentary/tabloid realism; the production famously shut down so that De Niro could gain 50-plus pounds. Raging Bull opened in late
1980 to raves for its artistry and revulsion for its protagonist; despite eight
Oscar nominations, it underperformed at the box office, as audiences increasingly turned away from "difficult" films in the late '70s and early '80s.
The Academy concurred, passing over Scorsese's work for
Best Director and
Picture in favor of
Robert Redford and
Ordinary People, although De Niro won a much-deserved
Oscar, as did the film's editor,
Thelma Schoonmaker. Oscar or no Oscar, Raging Bull has often been cited as the best
American film of the
1980s.
CREDITS:
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MGM (1980)
Cast:
Frank Vincent, Joe Pesci, Theresa Saldana, Robert De Niro
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Producers:
Robert Chartoff, Hal W.
Polaire,
Peter Savage,
Irwin Winkler
Screenwriters:
Jake LaMotta,
Joseph Carter, Peter Savage, Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin
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