the real experience of former world boxing champion Jack La Mota living in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Because he likes to squat, the Italian boxer Jack La Motta, born in Brooklyn, New York, is called the "angry bull" in boxing. Boxing is a space where Jack challenges life and surpasses himself, and it is also a life and death field where he suffers from unequal treatment and frustration.
Jack LaMotta’s life is full of twists and turns. In order to realize his dream of boxing champion, he did not hesitate to lose his personality. When he achieved his so-called ideal, he found that he had already lost his soul, and when he lost everything. , But made his dead soul be redeemed. Under the strong recommendation of Robert De Niro, Scorsese finished reading Jack La Motta's autobiography, and he became interested in this subject of spiritual salvation. De Niro has played an amazing acting ability in the film, from the beginning to the end can portray the character of the characters in three points. The superb acting skills of the stars and the dazzling directing skills of the director made this film very popular with the audience. In order to show La Motta's degenerate form after retiring, De Niro did not hesitate to sacrifice his health, gaining more than 50 pounds in a short period of time, which was passed on by the film world as a good story.
The boxing scene in this film is full of claustrophobic, rugged and terrifying colors, and is known as the most classic boxing scene in movie history. The film’s photography skills are superb, especially in the boxing scenes, where the characters’ brave posture and mad cow-like character are vividly expressed; in addition, the use of music to set off the pictures and picture editing is also very good, firmly grasping the heartstrings of the audience. The film truly reflects the ups and downs of a boxer's life and the rich and subtle emotional world.
About director
Martin Scorsese was born in a working family in New York City, USA in 1942. His parents were both devout Italian Catholics. As a child, Scorsese suffered from congenital asthma and spent a long time indoors alone with books as a companion. Not only did he develop an introverted and withdrawn character, he also became interested in art and theology.
Scorsese obtained a master's degree in 1966 and stayed on to teach at New York University. Scorsese wrote and directed "Raging Dark Street" in 1973, and in 1975 directed "Taxi Driver", which won the Best Picture Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The realism is shocking. Then films such as "Angry Bull" won Oscars, which further enhanced his status. In 1985, "Eight Hours Away" won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In the 1990s, he directed "Good Guys", "Corner of Terror", "Shuttle Between Yin and Yang", "Poor Streets", "New York, New York" and so on. He has been shortlisted for the Best Director of Skar Award for three times and has become one of the most creative and important directors in Hollywood. Scorsese has always used his unique perspective to calmly analyze the chronic diseases of society and mankind with his own unique perspective, and is known as "Film Sociologist".
About the starring role
Robert De Niro was born in 1943 in New York City to a family of Italian descent. His parents were both painters. From the age of 16, he studied acting with the famous theater actors at the time. At the age of 20, he began to enter the theater stage as a professional actor. In the late 1960s, he began to enter the film world and began to shoot several low-cost films. Films such as "Drumming Slowly" and "Hunter's Night" attracted the attention of Martin Scorsese, who asked him to star in "Poor Streets" 》Success. After that, the two began a long-term cooperation, and in 1976 launched "Taxi Driver", which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival. And "Angry Bull" earned him the Oscar for Best Actor. His other major masterpieces include: "Once Upon a Time in America", "Falling in Love" and "Missionary" and so on.
The success of "Angry Bull" is also due to Robert De Niro's outstanding performance. He studied boxing with boxing champion Motta himself for a year, and learned that even Motta can hardly beat him. In order to play the role of Motta in his later years, he gained 60 pounds in 40 days, regardless of increased blood pressure and heart risk. He said: "I just can't act in a fake act. I know that the movie is an illusion. Maybe the first rule of an actor is to pretend, but I can't. I need to deal with the personal experience of a character, fat or thin." Denis Luo contributed a way of acting-the actor has to sacrifice and give everything for the role.
Highlights:
In the famous "beat me" scene, Robert De Niro and Joe Pessi really fought each other. In a boxing scene, De Niro accidentally broke one of Pessi’s ribs. What you can see in the lens now is: De Niro punched Pessi in, and Pessi groaned. Go to other places quickly.
In order to truly feel the brotherhood between the two protagonists, De Niro and Persie really lived together and trained each other for a while before the film was shot. Since then, the two people under the screen have also maintained a deep friendship.
The scene where Jack met his girlfriend was an improvisation.
In order to visually show Jack's slow growth and gradually shrinking body, Martin Scorsese chose a larger boxing ring in the scene of the boxing match after filming.
In the role of the elderly Ramot, Robert De Niro deliberately gained a record 60 pounds, and Persie also lost weight in the same scene. But De Niro's fat gain record in this film was quickly broken by Vincent Onefrio, who gained 70 pounds for the character soldier Lawrence in the 1987 "Full Metal Shell".
In his role preparation stage, Robert De Niro went through a lot of physical training. Then in the real Brooklyn boxing match, he participated in three games and won two of them.
The first draft of the script was shot by the producer Bach, who told Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro that Ramott was "a cockroach." De Niro and Scosis spent several weeks in Italy, revising the script in an unsigned manner, during which they added some touching details to Ramot, which ultimately satisfied the producers.
Although there were only a few minutes of boxing scenes in the film, in order to design precise fighting movements, they took 6 weeks to shoot.
During the preparation for the role of Jack Lamot, Robert De Niro often met with Lamot in reality, and the two became very close friends. In the camera, they appear together in a complete paragraph so that De Niro can perform his role vividly. Ramot even said that if De Niro could become a boxer, he would be happy to be De Niro's manager and coach.
The scene of the rooftop wedding was directed by Martin Scorsese’s father, while he himself was lying in a hospital bed.
Some of the clips and scenes in the film are derived from 1954's "The Wharf", because Jack Lamot admires the role played by Marlon Brando and often quotes the dialogue in the film in real life. Later Ramot watched the movie and said that he only realized for the first time what a terrible person he was once.
Cross-cut shots:
Continuity: In the first half of the movie, Jack stands behind the window and yells. From the outside, he is standing on the right side of the window. When viewed from the inside, he is almost standing at a certain distance from the window.
Continuity: The glasses of the announcer at the start of the match on the boxing ring.
The sound/picture is out of sync: At the end of the film, in the phone booth, Jack said that he could not raise the 10,000 dollars he needed, but his lips did not move.
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