Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro as middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta, tracing his rise in the ring alongside his self-destructive jealousy and violence toward his family. Shot largely in black and white, the film is noted for De Niro's physical transformation for the role, including significant weight gain to portray LaMotta in his later years, for which De Niro won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Raging Bull is widely regarded as one of the greatest American films and sports biopics ever made.
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Did Robert De Niro really gain weight for Raging Bull?
He gained more than fifty-five pounds to play La Motta as a nightclub performer.
Yes. De Niro gained more than fifty-five pounds to match the middle-aged, bloated body of Jake La Motta in the scenes where La Motta appears as a nightclub performer, which frame the central story. He also spent a year training with the real boxer and performed the carefully choreographed fight scenes himself.
How does Raging Bull differ from the Rocky films?
It is a darker, less resolved portrait of a real boxer, where Rocky follows a fictional hero.
Raging Bull was released midway through the Rocky series, which follows a fictional and likable boxing hero. Raging Bull tells the story of the real middleweight Jake La Motta and, in the words of one reference account, offers a more complicated, less resolved and far darker look at men who live in the ring.
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Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, which adapts Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story.
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Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro as middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta, tracing his rise in the ring alongside his self-destructive jealousy and violence toward his family.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Wikidata P166: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Wikidata P166 (award received): National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
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