The eyy's and ohhh's fly almost as frequently as the expletives, and everyone is shouting more often than not, though usually not over anything of significant consequence. For example: De Niro uses the word “mamaluke” twice. I'll say this as objectively as I can: this movie is really damn Italian. Scorsese is notorious for using music to heighten and often dominate scenes in his films, so the classical music was an excellent choice. The music is largely of Italian composer Pietro Mascagni, who lends a sad, but vibrant complementary tone to the whole story.
For any Scorsese fan who is familiar with his other classics such as Casino and Goodfellas will find much more of the same in terms of style and delivery, only filmed in black and white, a choice that helped to separate Raging Bull from the Rocky films and to aid in the historical feel of life in the 40s-60s. This film has a lot of great things working for it.
Highly suspicious and controlling, Jake's insecurity often boils over into rage and some pretty relentless displays of domestic violence toward his wife (Cathy Moriarty) and brother. Jake is a fierce, hungry competitor angry, wild (many characters call him an animal throughout the film), but also not without his charm, and at his core a very emotionally insecure person. Alongside his brother and sparring partner Joey (Joe Pesci), Jake ascends the ranks toward middleweight glory, but not without a significant struggle along the way. “Raging Bull” (1980), voted AFI's #4 Greatest Movie of All Time and AFI #1 Greatest Sports Movie of All Time, is the epic biography of Jake “Raging Bull” La Motta (De Niro), a hotheaded American middleweight champion boxer living in New York in the 1940's.
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