521 Raging Bull (1980)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
521 Raging Bull (1980)
- 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 technicians, to
prevent then being used again.
- The scene by the chain link fence where Jack meets his girlfriend was
ad-libbed.
- 'Robert De Niro' (qv) accidentally broke 'Joe Pesci' (qv)'s rib in a
sparring scene. This shot appears in the film: De Niro hits Pesci in the
side, Pesci groans, and there is a quick cut to another angle.
- Jake (De Niro) asks Joey (Pesci) ``Did you fuck my wife?''. Director
'Martin Scorsese' (qv) didn't think that Pesci's reaction was strong enough,
so he asked De Niro to say ``Did you fuck your mother?'' De Niro complied,
and Pesci's reaction was kept in the finished movie.
- To visually achieve Jake's growing desparation and diminishing stature,
Scorcese shot the later boxing scenes in a larger ring.
- De Niro gained over 50 pounds to play the older LaMotta.
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): asking Jack to go on stage.
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