Essentially, it was all about Mobilizing Marty. The real story took place in offices, restaurants-even in a hospital room and on a balmy Caribbean island. This, in turn, means that, when we’re talking about how Raging Bull came into being, the drama is not centered on its sets or in its editing rooms-that part was relatively easy. He also believed, more certainly, that the only man who could possibly make the movie was his closest friend, Marty Scorsese. He felt that if an essentially middle-class movie audience could be induced to empathize with these marginal, emotionally ignorant, and screechingly inarticulate people-La Motta, his wife, and his brother-it would be a good, discomfiting, perhaps even instructive experience. It had something to do, he now thinks, with “the primal emotions” the film trafficked in. I’m not certain that De Niro himself could, at the time, have fully explained his obsession with what was nominally a biopic and nominally a boxing picture, but was not quite either one. At the time-the late 70s-no one could understand what the actor saw in the life story of Jake La Motta, the brutal, yet curiously masochistic, middleweight boxing champion from 1949 to 1951, who may have been bull-like in the ring but was often more raving than raging when he was just trying to live his life. By which he means that it was Robert De Niro’s driving passion, long before it became Martin Scorsese’s common-consent greatest work. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.‘It was Bob’s film,” says Irwin Winkler, the producer of Raging Bull. This story first appeared in a December stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. That really stuck with me.” She still regrets taking off for Europe the day the Oscar nominations were announced. “He said the most important thing for an actor was to listen. Moriarty says the best advice she received was from De Niro. Moriarty was 17, living in the Bronx and completely unaware that a bicoastal search was going on for an actress who “must be blonde and have excellent figure. “I can’t say enough about how much they helped me,” she says. One person who owes her career to the trio was Cathy Moriarty, who received an Oscar nom for supporting actress. The Hollywood Reporter said the film was “probably the most unromanticized movie biography ever produced in Hollywood.” Yet Raging Bull got eight Academy Award nominations, with De Niro winning for actor and Thelma Schoonmaker for editing.
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