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| new york city, reference, club, nas, buds, insultingpostcards, blogger, ray liotta, eaton centre, music, ice t, detroit, help wanted, west, southern california, store, quotations, french/appendices/slang, newsweekly, | Scorcese failed to win the best scott tobias director award, losing to first time director Robert Redford. Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) Customer Reviews Average Customer Review: Write an online review and share your thoughts scott tobias with other customers. ART, March 3, 2006 Reviewer:Scott Barton - See all my reviews This film is not like any of the other Boxing films I have seen, usually Boxing films are glorified scott tobias and bring an uplifting feeling to the viewer but not this film it is true Drama film. This film shows the true brutality of the sport of Boxing at its very best. This film makes you feel pity and sorrow for Jake LaMotta, but also makes you despise him for his dishonorable actions. This film leads you into Jake LaMotta's world, of paranoia and self pity. A downward spiral. The other thing that makes this film good is the well thought out cinematography and score it blends well with the black and white format. |
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| Mr. De Niro doesn't just act the part, he becomes Jake LaMotta. He explodes club off the screen as he takes us through the highs and lows of Mr. LaMotta's life from being middleweight champion of the world to being a club second rate lounge act. He is fierce, bitter, angry, touching and becomes somewhat sympathetic near the end. He trained to get into fighting condition and then put on about 100 pounds to play the Mr. LaMotta later in life. He is simply brilliant. In addition, an 18 year old Cathy Moriarty makes an impressive debut club as his abused wife and Joe Pesci, in one of his earliest roles, plays his tormented brother. Martin Scorcese decided to shoot the movie in black and white (there is a brief scene in color of a LaMotta home movie) and this adds to the film's intensity and darkness. Mr. De Niro deservedly won the 1980 Best Actor Academy Award, but the film (which many critics site as the best of the 80's) lost out to the bland melodrama Ordinary People and Mr. |
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