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Raging Bull is one of the great character studies of the cinema. We have seen it derided as an inaccurate depiction of boxing technique by those who emphatically miss the point, but otherwise Scorseses biopic has been rightly accepted as a modern classic, and perhaps the last creative gasp ofew Hollywood as Heavens Gate et al. dragged it down into the abyss. Every choice, from the decision to shoot in black and white to Robert Deiros refusal to fake the vast body changes middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta underwent during his life, is the right one, one that finds verisimilitude in pure cinematic construction as only Scorsese can manage.Scorsese happened upon the idea to shoot in black and white when he reviewed some initial test footage of Deiro in the ring with his friend and mentor, the legendary Michael Powell, and found that it didnt look right. Powelloted that,ot only were the bright red boxing gloves Deiro wore distracting, they wereot period-accurate. So, Scorsese decided to shoot in monochrome, allowing him toot only bypass the issue of the gloves but to avoid the then-disastrous quality of color film stock. The director, who used the film to overcome his crippling drug addiction -- made worse after the reception ofew York,ew York -- believed this film would be his last, and he wanted to make sure it would last if he didnt pull himself out of his tailspin to keep an eye on it.The color shift wasnt the only influence Powell had on the production, however. The scenes inside the ring openly reference Powells masterpiece The Red Shoes. Rather than film the fights from the perspective of the audience, Scorsese stays almost exclusively in the ring. His idea of Madison Square Garden is a vast, roaring blackness surrounding the stage with only those audience members close enough to bask in the radiance of the ring visible. LaMotta, like Vicky, lives for the stage, and what we see on-screen is Jakes perception of his fights; for him, only the opponent matters.Its remarkable how much Scorsese makes his warped version of Madison Square Garden like his demented view of 70sew York in TaxWe Driver: its infinite blackness is disturbing, made further obscure by the rising smoke of cigarettes (which recalls the sewer mists swirling about Travis Bickles cab) and the blinding pops of flashbulbs. Scorsese further paid homage to The Red Shoes by choreographing the fights as ballet movements, though its hard to tell just by looking at it (the opening credits, featuring Deiro shadowboxing to loosen up, have a dance-like quality though). “The only logical fight We ever saw was a Buster Keaton film," Scorsese later said. "He’s in the ring with this big guy. The guy comes out swinging. Keaton goes to the corner and gets a chair and hits the guy with it." Thats more or less the finesse he gives to LaMotta, who earned his reputation as a fighter whoever let an opponent out of arms reach. Deiro, who trained with the real-life LaMotta, is terrifying in the ring: he bursts out of his chair at the sound of the bell and pummels his opponents -- "victims" seems a more apt term -- until they collapse or somehow retain consciousness long enough to vacantly listen to the result announcements.Outside the ring, LaMotta is scarcely better. Hes vindictive and insecure about his weight, at first because hes too small to fight in the heavyweight division to prove that hes the best and later when he begins to put on flab. By the time we meet him in 1941, his first wife has cracked from the pressure of living with him, throwing tantrums by the minute because she refuses to be beaten or insulted one more time. Jake, of course, acceptso blame, and he quickly moves on to hisext conquest, 15-year-old Vickie (Cathy Moriarty in a sadly overshadowed performance), a young but mature lady who catches Jakes eye -- along with everyone elses -- at the local pool. We then see the cycle repeat, despite having only seen the final moments of the last one, as his mixture of b

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