![]() Together, the director and star retooled a script written by Mardik Martin ( Mean Streets) and polished by Paul Schrader ( Taxi Driver). Boxing, he saw, was “an allegory for whatever you do in life… you make movies, you’re in the ring each time”. Initially, the director rejected it because he found the sport boring, but after the failure of his musical New York, New York (1977), and a near-fatal drug overdose, he reconsidered. Star Robert De Niro first brought the project to Scorsese, having read LaMotta’s autobiography on the set of The Godfather: Part II. The story of Bronx world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta (1922-2017), Raging Bull remains a problematic text some 40 years on, an often beautiful film about ugliness. ![]() ![]() In November 1980, Martin Scorsese released one of the most divisive movies of his career.
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