For example, when Jake asks Joey, ‘Did you fuck my wife?’ I had written a seven-page scene, the only full-length dialogue in the film. (.) And he really gets other actors to act in his scenes. The sound effects were done by Frank Warner, (.) he used rifle shots and melons breaking, but the wouldn't tell us what many of the effects were he became very possessive and even burnt them afterwards so nobody else could use them.īob is a very generous actor and he will be even stronger when the other guy's in close-up. The sound on Raging Bull was particularly difficult because each punch, each camera click and each flashbulb was different. The only person who had the right attitude about boxing in the movies for me was Buster Keaton. When I'd seen boxing matches between double features on Saturday afternoons as a kid, it was always from the same angle, and that's why I became so bored. In Raging Bull, the camera almost always stays in the ring with Jake. But then it clicked in my mind that colour wasn't going to last anyway – the film stock was subject to rapid fading. (.) We said, no, it's too pretentious to use black and white now.
Suddenly Michael said, ‘There's something wrong: the gloves shouldn't be red.’ (.) e was right about the boxing footage, and our cinematographer Michael Chapman also pointed out how colour was detracting from the images. During preparations for Raging Bull, we shot some 8 mm while Bobby was training in a gym and I remember we were looking at this, projected on the back of a door in my apartment on 57th Street, and Michael Powell was sitting on the floor watching it with us. But the one use of colour in a fight sequence that had really impressed me was the flashback in John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952), when Wayne looks down and realizes he's killed his opponent, and I'll never forget the vibrance of his emerald green trunks. There were a number of boxing movies coming out at that time: Rocky II (1979), which was a blockbuster movie in bright colours, strong reds and blues The Main Event (1979), The Champ (1979) and even one about a boxing kangaroo called Matilda! All naturally in colour.
It was what I call a kamikaze way of making movies: pour everything in, then forget all about it and go find another way of life. “I put everything I knew and felt into that film and I thought it would be the end of my career. That the thing ain’t the ring, it’s the play. “A horse, a horse, my Kingdom for a horse,” The worst way a guy can get rid of his flab, I recall every fall, every hook, every jab, (I’m the) boss, boss, boss, boss, boss, boss.Īnd for years they’ll remain in my thoughts.Īnd what’d I do? I forgot to wear shorts. I’m the boss, I’m the boss, I’m the boss, I’m the boss, I’m the boss. The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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