![]() Then again, could I really belt my own mother?" Antonio Scarpacci - "What I wouldn't give to get back at the person who tormented me through all my school years. ![]() Joe Hackett - "Uh.no, I still prefer to wait til the coast is clear." Joe Hackett - "Hey, Brian, you'll never guess what I did today down at the gym."īrian Hackett - "You finally got up the nerve to undress in front of the other boys?".No punches are thrown, but Antonio is accidentally unknocked when he runs into the ring to break up their hug just as Joe and Brian raise their arms up in triumph. However, once the fight starts, all Joe and Brian can do is remember how close they are as brothers and best friends and tearfully hug. With Antonio training Brian, Helen training Joe, and Roy betting on the match, what started out as a friendly match turns ugly when Joe blames Brian for a tax error at Sandpiper Air that Fay made. The use of pop and opera and the black-and-white photography (by Michael Chapman) are exemplary, the actual boxing a compulsive dance of death.Joe enters a boxing tournament to beat an old rival, but things turn unusual when the rival is injured and the replacement alternate turns out to be Brian. Following from 1941 to 1964 the explosively jealous and narcissistic middle-weight, his brother-manager Joey – Joe Pesci, great in his breakthrough role, first of the badabing pairings with De Niro that would define his career – and Jake’s tenderised wife Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), ‘Raging Bull’ is a masterclass in pain inflicted on oneself and one’s loved ones, as well as one’s opponents. Not just a contender but a champ, La Motta’s fall stemmed not from outside pressures but inner weaknesses, stunningly realised in De Niro’s colossal performance both he and Scorsese have arguably never been better. ![]() I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum…’ When the washed-up Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro) quotes ‘On The Waterfront’ to himself, it tells us as much about his self-pity as the actual parallels with Brando’s Terry Malloy. You shoulda looked out for me a little bit… I coulda been a contender. ![]()
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