Jake Berenson

The 1980 biographical film Raging Bull captures the tumultuous life of boxing legend Jake LaMotta. The film illustrates the struggles and hamartia of LaMotta (Robert De Niro) and how his flaws ended up costing him everything. Generally, people usually depict their celebrity icon or sports figure for living the ‘perfect’ life and also not having any flaws as person, but this film reminds us that this is not the case, and demonstrates the hardship that they might endure. We should start realizing

Introduction The film Stronger (2015) based on the memoir of Jeffrey Bauman directed by David Green, focuses on his life after losing his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings. In the early scenes of Stronger, the movie shows Bauman’s life of recovery and adaptation to living as a disabled man. Bauman becomes a symbol of hope and inspiration to the people after the bombing. Bauman comes home to his mother and sees tons of care packages and thank you letters from people who believe he is an inspiring

theme mixed motives comes about in many scenes, within Jake, Vikki, Joey and Sal or the Mafia. One character in the film that has mixed motives is the middleweight champion boxer Jake Lamotta. Jake strives to be the best boxer, and be the heart of a champion. Jake is not afraid of anyone, and could care less what people think about him. Jake’s mindset is being the finest, and he does everything to be just that. Alternatively, often times Jake is insanely jealous toward his wife, he judgmental and

Sutter was the screenwriter behind the film. Kurt Sutter is the creator of Sons Of Anarchy, a wildly successful dramatic tv series. Overall, the movie would not be the same without this amazing pair. Southpaw is the story of Billy "The Great" Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) a short tempered, rough-around-the-edges boxing champion who grew up in Hell's Kitchen Orphanage. He adores his beautiful wife Maureen (Rachel McAdams), who also grew up in Hell's Kitchen

Michael Warner states in his book The Trouble with Normal that "the [American] culture has thousands of ways for people to govern the sex of others," that a certain regulation of sexuality and desire can be designed "directly, through prohibition and regulation, and indirectly, by embracing one identity or one set of tastes as though they were universally shared, or should be" (Warner 1). According to Warner, the logical process that follows such a regulation ensures a certain shame attaches to

In this essay I will be writing about how happiness to some extent can be achieved for the characters within the film but how the majority of aspects to the narrative cause both Jack and Ennis to be unhappy and how both are dually to blame for this. Despite some slight bursts of happiness within the film I will also be mentioning that although the two men’s desires working against each other to make them unhappy, the fact that Ennis represents the expectations and fears of 1960’s small town American

self-destructive tendencies cause him to lash out at his brother and his wife, imagining cases of infidelity. The film does not culminate in Jake’s victory and becoming champion as is characteristic of the boxing genre, but instead goes further and shows how Jake poorly adjusts to retirement, and ends up isolated from his family. Raging Bull’s approach to the boxing film focuses on the negative characteristics of the boxer that account for his masculinity, rather than solely on the boxer proving his masculinity

Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull is a movie based on the real-life story of a headstrong middleweight boxer as he strives to become a champion. His name is Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro), a world renowned boxer in the 1940s. Themes of violence, jealousy, and insecurity carry the film. LaMotta is written off as a physically and verbally abusive man, who seems limited only to the brutal emotions of wrath, anger, and envy. His life passes through sequential phases of punishment, negotiation, and self-disintegration

Bull Durham is a 1988 romantic comedy sports film, based upon the minor league experiences of director Ron Shelton and the players and fans of the Durham Bulls, a minor league baseball team from Durham, North Carolina. The film stars Kevin Costner as "Crash" Davis, a veteran catcher brought in to teach rookie pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) about the game in preparation for reaching the Major Leagues. Along with Annie (Susan Sarandon), a baseball groupie, who at every season, finds one player

was a cool story behind it, but what became of it onscreen ended up being a mess. Enemy is directed by Denis Villeneuve, who is well known for great award-winning movies such as Prisoners and Sicario. This Canadian production also stars the famous Jake Gyllenhaal in a multiple lead role. Talking about receiving awards, Enemy did get a bunch of them as well. But I don’t know why it deserved them. The film tells the story of a middle aged college history professor, Adam who is living with his girlfriend