In the source novel, Peter Fallow is English. John Cleese was offered the role, and turned it down.
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Jodie Foster didn't audition for this movie. Producers didn't find her suitable for the character of Vickie, and considered her as too young and tomboyish. Despite that, she still wanted to get the role. Most likely because of her admiration for Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese's work. Her mom thought about a way to convince the producers that Jodie was no longer the girl from Freaky Friday (1976) or Taxi Driver (1976) anymore, but a young woman. The result was a session with photographer Emilio Lari at a rented estate in Los Angeles in 1979, when Jodie Foster was sixteen years old. The pictures taken here later found their (unauthorized) way to adult magazines during the John Hinckley aftermath.
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To achieve the feeling of brotherhood between the two lead actors, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci lived and trained with each other for some time before filming began. Ever since then, the two have been very close friends.
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Jake LaMotta was childhood friends with Rocky Graziano, whose life was also made into a movie, Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), starring Paul Newman. LaMotta and Graziano attended reform school together.
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Ranked #1 on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the genre "Sports", in June 2008.
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The cross that once hung over Martin Scorsese's parents' bed can be seen hanging over Jake LaMotta and Vicki LaMotta's bed.
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Thelma Schoonmaker's husband, director Michael Powell, was consulted about the weight gain scenes. In Powell's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), the lead character gets significantly bigger during the course of the movie. Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were curious how Roger Livesey had achieved that effect. Powell informed them that Livesay had gotten bigger through careful use of camera angles, shaving his hair to make his head appear larger, and judicious use of padding. Scorsese and De Niro felt that the film was too realistic to get away with that kind of effect, so the decision was made for De Niro to physically bulk up through overeating.
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Martin Scorsese: Asking Jake LaMotta to go on stage.
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LaMotta's color family house movie sequence was personally scraped by Martin Scorsese with a coat hanger to ensure a rough, naturalistic feeling.
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When the studio vehemently opposed Martin Scorsese's plans to shoot the feature in black and white, producer Irwin Winkler intervened, pointing out that Paper Moon (1973) and Lenny (1974) had both been black & white box office hits.
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This differs radically from other boxing movies like "Rocky (1976)" and "Body and Soul (1981)," in that the camera was inside the ring for the fight scenes, not outside the ropes.
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The On the Waterfront (1954) monologue, recited by Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, was originally spoken in its respective film by Marlon Brando. Brando and De Niro are the two actors to have portrayed Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974).
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Was voted the third greatest sports movie of all time after Rocky (1976) and Bull Durham (1988) by ESPN.
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The first of three movies where editor Thelma Schoonmaker won an Oscar for a Martin Scorsese movie. The others being The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006).
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Jake LaMotta's autobiography, co-written with friend Peter Savage, omitted mention of his brother, as did Mardik Martin's original screenplay. Unhappy with the result, the producers hired Paul Schrader to restructure it, and in the course of doing research on LaMotta, the writer came across an article on the relationship between Jake and his brother Joey. Schrader incorporated the relationship into the revised screenplay, co-opting the Savage character, and creating a composite of the two men in the person of Joey LaMotta. That relationship became the central plot theme in the revised screenplay, and one of the primary reasons for the film's success.
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Sound effects for punches landing were made by squashing melons and tomatoes. Sound effects for camera flashes going off were sounds of gunshots. The original tapes were deliberately destroyed by the sound technician Frank E. Warner, to prevent them being used again.
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According to Martin Scorsese, the script took only two weeks to write on the island of St. Martin in the Caribbean.
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When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."
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Paul Schrader was directing Hardcore (1979), when Robert De Niro talked to him about needing help with a script. The first thing Schrader did was drive down to Key West and check the archives of a local newspaper. It was there that he learned that there were two LaMottas, something which is not referenced in Jake LaMotta's autobiography. That was when Schrader knew he had found the hook for the screenplay.
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Robert De Niro gave Martin Scorsese the book Raging Bull in 1974, during the time, Scorsese was working on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).
Raging Bull - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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