He asked the real Vicki LaMotta 'Was I really like that?'.

When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him break down in tears and realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. The first two IMDB Trivia entries for the movie are interesting as well The ending isn't necessarily hopeful, but I felt hope when I saw DeNiro and Pesci's final scene, to see Jake clumsily trying to apologize to his brother.

I thought all leading characters had to be heroic, and here one needed to search to discover what was heroic about Jake. It's also the very first time I heard critics describe a great movie about a bad man, which I didn't understand until I watched it. I can't find a dishonest moment in the movie.

It delivers this in almost a dream like quality, shot in black and white, it's almost feels like a documentary. I agree that RB includes absolutely incredible first time performances from both Pesci and Moriarty and I think it features DeNiro's best performance of his career, and I agree with you, one of the best acting performances by anyone. However even now, when I watch Raging Bull I feel like I'm watching something else altogether. I grew up with Scorsese's movies and when I saw Taxi Driver in its first run, (didn't see Mean Streets contemporaneously), I was blown away. They leads are cool enough to be magnetic, but not cool enough to be 'Fight Club-ed.' Sorry for the ramble, anyone wanna talk Casino?Ĭompletely agree. However I feel as if Casino was him at his most distilled. Marty has, of course, done this before and since. You root for their death but mourn the uncertain future it leads to. You are able to look at the characters with true malice and disgust at their actions, as you were as much a victim of them as the rest of the cast. This film puts you so directly in the inner psyche of a person-turned-monster driven to rationalize every action they take, that by the end you feel devastated and miserable. God, does any film make you feel more emotionally abused than this one? I don't say that flippantly. Goodfellas may be more critically and commercially acclaimed, however I truly find that Casino is the one of the pair that really represents the apex of Scorsese's gangster/crook oeuvre.

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