Vikki LaMotta

Not knowing what a characters reason or intention might be is also known as Mixed Motives. Within the film Raging Bull, the 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

the professional and personal life of boxer Jake LaMotta. In the opening sequence, the film uses narrative, mise en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound to provide a framework for the rest of the picture. These elements also help to establish the film’s themes of nostalgia, isolation, loneliness, and suffering. In addition to setting up the film’s themes, these elements also help to create two distinct personas of the main character Jake LaMotta. The narrative form exhibited in the opening

Everyone lives in a different reality, that is why people enjoy watching movies. It gives insight into the world’s of others. Film directors strive to portray their characters’ lives as believable as possible. Many help set up the authenticity with costumes and such.      In The Governess Goldbacher sets the historical reality with subtle elegance. In the scene where Rosina enters the dining area to inform her employers of her departure, all are dressed in attire associated

Raging Bull is a 1980 biographical sports film about boxer Jake LaMotta, directed by Martin Scorsese. The Social Network is a 2010 biographical film about Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook, directed by David Fincher. This essay will be an analysis and a comparison of the two films that seeks to answer the questions: How do the films communicate messages to the viewer? What messages do the communicate? And finally should films of the biopic genre be viewed as biographical, or should they

Raging Bull, released in 1980, is a sports drama portrayed in black and white that tells the story of Jake LaMotta and the fluctuation of his boxing career and the personal relationships in his life. This movie is referred to as one of the greatest films ever made. It is extremely significant in film-making because it was nominated for several Oscars, and solidified Martin Scorsese as an amazing director. The movie was directed beautifully and uses many innovative techniques that were not used in

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

animal of a man, who encourages pain and suffering in his life as almost a form of reparation. Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece of a film drags you down into the seedy filth stenched world of former middleweight boxing champion Jake “The Bronx Bull” LaMotta. Masterfully he paints the picture of a beast whose sole drive is not boxing but an insatiable obsessive jealously over his wife and his fear of his own underling sexuality. The movie broke new ground with its brutal unadulterated no-holds-bard look

Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” is a movie that revolves around Jake La Motta fighting career, violence, and jealousy. Martin Scorsese really portrayed the inability of a man to cope his shortcomings and instead took his frustrations somewhere else. The character Jake was a macho man, that only saw women as object to have sex and kids, but also saw them as cheaters making Jake incapable to trust women, therefore always jealous and Jake took on his anger on the ring or other man that dare talk

Evaluation of Southpaw One of the most popular movies of 2015 was the sports drama Southpaw. The dramatic R-rated movie pulls you in, and makes you fall in love with the characters. Between the magic behind the camera and the actual scenes, Southpaw is a movie that is very well put together. It would be an understatement to say that the actors chosen to play the roles in this film are definitely a good fit. This movie will have you feeling all of the emotions as if you were the character yourself

Vyom Thakkar Film R1B: Boxing Films; Eliot Bessette, Harry Burson Word Count: 3227 Saved by the Brother: Role of Family Dynamics in The Fighter and Raging Bull Masculinity comprises the backbone of the boxing genre, with the boxer protagonist in an arena displaying masculinity to an audience that cannot in as pure of a manner. This depiction of masculinity calls upon the personality of the protagonist to portray a reclamation of a quality that may be repressed in other individuals by society through