Collaboration In Raging Bull

Great films are created by individuals but they can also be created through collaboration. Raging Bull (1980) was a collaborate film by Martin Scorsese’s and Robert De Niro. Together they created a memorable film. They put their creative ideas together to come up with the best way to represent the life of Jake LaMotta. Raging Bull was collaboration between two great artists. They both had their share of ideas that further improved the quality of the film. Had the film been the work of only one artist the result would have been completely different. Raging Bull was initially De Niros’ obsession. He was obsessed with Jake LaMotta’s chaotic life and he pitched the idea to his good friend Scorsese. At this point in time Scorsese’s was dealing with his inner
That should be honor to both artists. What makes this film extraordinary is that it is not like any other boxing movie, “it is not a movies about boxing, it a movie about a boxer” (Ebert). It is a movie about a man who had deep personal and emotional issues that he could only deal with in the ring. In this film LaMotta is a man who has to confront his “low self-esteem, sexual inadequacy and fear that lead some men to abuse women”, those issues attract viewers (Ebert). Raging Bull is not a typical boxing movie, where the main character trains until he achieves the success and fame he was looking for all along. On the contrary LaMotta’s life is real, its raw. The center of his life is his wife, and later the paranoia that takes over his life. Boxing seems more of like an escape from the demons that hunt him. And unlike every other conventional boxing film out there where the main character is victorious and ways at the top LaMotta falls. He falls and does not recuperate his status as a middle weight champ. All those things that De Niro and Scorsese’s wrote about make Raging Bull different. They made it