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| Nelson_Mandela 07/03/19 12:55:24 PM #139: | #24. Raging Bull https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Raging_Bull_poster.jpg Dir: Martin Scorsese Genre: Drama Year: 1980 SephG Superlative: The greatest movie of the 1980s Raging Bull is not a sports movie. Not even a modicum of one. The boxing is merely a device that frames the story. Raging Bull is really about the rise and fall of Jake LaMotta--a tragedy of uninhibited masculinity. There's something biblical about this movie as well. Scorsese was really experimenting around this time period (with more than just cocaine!), so it's all filmed with such an ethereal quality. The black-and-white dissolves, the angelic/operatic score, the bright lighting--it all appears as if LaMotta's fall is part spiritual allegory and part biography. And I think that's why this movie gets the praise it gets. It's not a more sports biopic--Scorsese and DeNiro create their own story and their own character out of this real person, and now we as film buffs can look to it as scripture. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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