Film
Raging Bull
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 129 mins
Robert De Niro stars in the pugilism drama that bagged him his second Oscar. Famously methody Bob inhabits the role of middleweight champ Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese’s superlative biopic tracing the Bronx slugger’s descent into pathetic fat slobdom. Warning: contains more testosterone than a waste bin at a neutering clinic.
Have some Raging Bull trivia on us:
Method Madness: Bob piles on 60 pounds to play the ageing La Motta and enters three Brooklyn boxing contests. He wins two of them.
Classic Bob Line: “Did you suck Joey’s dick?” (Repeat three times until required answer is forthcoming: “Yeah, I sucked it! I sucked his dick! And you know what? His cock is bigger than yours!”)
Trivia: To make La Motta appear smaller and more pathetic in later stages of the film, director Martin Scorsese filmed him in a bigger ring.
It’s back on screen in the Everyman’s Saturday late night season of cult classics.
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