The movie was edited in Scorsese’s New York apartment every night after the filming for the day had finished.ġ2. He wanted the single camera to be like a third fighter.ġ1. Martin Scorsese didn’t want to film the boxing scenes with multiple cameras, instead, he planned months of carefully choreographed movements with one camera. Jake LaMotta’s brother Joseph LaMotta sued the production for $2.5 million for the movie’s alleged unflattering depiction of him.ġ0. The sound effects for camera flashes going off were used as gunshots.ĩ. The sound effects for punches landing was done my squashing melons and tomatoes. Martin Scorsese also didn’t want to depict all the blood in a color movie.Ĩ.

The reason why the movie was made in black and white was to differentiate it from Rocky, as well as for period authenticity. The scene where Vicki LaMotta is first introduced to Jake LaMotta by the chain linked fence was entirely improvised by Cathy Moriarty and Robert De Niro.ħ.

To show up better on a black and white movie, the crew used Hershey’s chocolate was fake blood.Ħ. De Niro and Joe Pesci are really punching each other in the famous “hit me” scene.ĥ. The shot actually appears in the movie, when De Niro hits Pesci in the side and Pesci groans.Ĥ. De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci’s rib in a sparring scene. When he asked the real Vicki LaMotta if he was really like that, she replied, “You were worse.”ģ. 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. 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.

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