When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie he said that it made him realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been.

When he was preparing for his role, Robert De Niro went through extensive physical training, then entered in 3 genuine Brooklyn boxing matches and won 2 of them.Ģ. Take a look below for 28 more fascinating and interesting facts about Raging Bull.ġ. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family.

This year’s edition ran from June 9 through Sunday with screenings and in-person events across the five boroughs as the city reopens.Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black and white sports drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta’s memoir Raging Bull: My Story. The actor founded the Tribeca Festival with Jane Rosenthal, CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, in 2001 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of lower Manhattan following the September 11 terrorist attacks. But we knew it was a special movie,” said De Niro. Scorsese and De Niro have been fielding questions about the film and their fruitful working relationship for years and talked with DiCaprio about the original source material - an autobiography by LaMotta that De Niro was drawn to but Scorsese at first resisted since he disliked sports the complexity of production, including the balletic, bloody fight scenes and convincing United Artists to let them film in black and white. De Niro won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Jake LaMotta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. The outdoor screening in Battery Park was a new 4K scan from the original camera negative of the film that was nominated for for eight Academy Awards.

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