Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: Paul Schrader
, Mardik Martin
Photography: Michael Chapman
Producer: Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
Company (s) Distribution: United Artists
Country: United States
With Robert De Niro
(Jake La Motta
)
Frank Vincent (Salvy), Nicholas Colasanto
( Tommy Como) ...
Information Booklet DVD:
Without much conviction, Martin Scorsese
some ideas, at one point he even thought of adapt the book to the theater, then make a film called " Prize Fighter "'The idea was to turn the day and give theatrical performances in the evening, As comical as it sounds, that approach is not entirely novel, The Marx Brothers have indeed played" A Night at the Opera " and" A Day at the Races on stage to test them on the public, but even the Marx Brothers
did not have enough energy to tackle a film and representation theater the same day.
Scorsese attends some boxing matches and removes more keyframes (the blood flowing along the strings and also on the sponge) but still fails to invest in the project. The writer finds herself without any guidance. Indeed, Scorsese
not read the first drafts that when De Niro of law. At this point, the scenario is based on some research and hundreds of interviews, all the more contradictory than the other, Because of the reluctance of
Scorsese, the story is completely disjointed. Somewhat in the style of the film "Rashomon ", which offered several versions of the same scene from the perspective of different characters. Once again, the project flounders and Scorsese embarked on the realization of "The Last Waltz
. Only when his health took a turn almost inevitable that the film begins to focus seriously on the film.
De Niro and Scorsese then contact Paul
Schrader, the screenwriter of "Taxi Driver . But Schrader
just made his directorial debut with "Hardcore
" and believes that being engaged as
screenwriter is a step backwards. But to help them out, he agreed with little enthusiasm
to resume the script.
Schrader
radically transformed the structure of the scenario. While that of Scorsese
showed the beginnings of Jake La Motta and its passage in house of correction, the scenario begins Schrader with 1964, the ring, La Motta a puffy before cutting into 1941 and his first defeat. The scenario is dark and offers no compromise. Even De Niro is troubled by the frank sexuality of the film. The reaction
United Artists
was unanimously negative.
a split decision Having to face the threat of restructuring or selling, weighing on her, the company United Artists must do well. This is no time for her to take risks. Moreover, leaders of the studio did not hide their protest against the project. Reading the scenario Paul Schrader the scandalized. And when they learn that Scorsese wants to shoot the movie in black and white, they are horrified. At that time, the studio is just recovering from the commercial failure of "
New York, New York
. Scorsese's ambitious attempt to place a drama of love in the midst of the Hollywood musicals of the 40s proved to be a big disappointment. The shooting was immortalized. Moreover, incessant rewriting the script and improvisations, had resulted in huge cuts in the opening scene.
Grayscale During preproduction, Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman filming the sequence of home movie in color, they noticed that the bright colors clash with the images but think Scorsese turn black and white is too pretentious. However, the decision to shoot in black and white is much more than a fad by the director, " I based the film, very specifically, on Life magazine photographers of the 40s and especially Weegee, "says Chapman ," That's how people of my generation, and that of Marty, remember the fighting, they remember as Large pictures in Life, All the memories of Jake La Motta are black and white .
But purely technical issues remain unresolved. In 1979 , few laboratories are developing black and white (ironically, the film is developed in Technicolor). In addition, a shortage Silver nitrate causes a decrease in the stock of black and white film, so a much higher cost than the color. The DoP has ever shot in black and white. The scenes inside her problem. In the apartments of Bronx, the very low ceilings and lack of space makes it difficult to use extra light, indispensable to black and white. In order to meet the timetable, two lighting styles were then adopted. Jake's life out of the ring is turned to New York by a simple, quasi-documentary. The one on the ring, meanwhile, is shot entirely in Los Angeles studios in ultra sophisticated style.
Danse Macabre
Martin Scorsese do not like how the fights are filmed in movies, boxing because for him, they adopt the perspective of the viewer and insulate the public from the brutality of the spectacle. Drawing on "Body and Soul " where the legendary director James Wong Howe filmed with a handheld camera and wearing roller skates in order to be closer to the action, is Scorsese decided to enter the ring and make the public feel every punch, "I wanted to do fight scenes through the audience instead of shorts, they feel the same feelings, they know what he thinks, what he feels, what he hears. I wanted every shot to be felt ".
During the entire filming, Scorsese's mantra was "stay in the ring."
"It almost always turned on inside the ropes" remembers
Chapman. Describing meticulously choreographed fight scenes. "There are large movements of cranes who slip through the ropes that rise and descend. It shot like a dance But at the same time, they really are fighting on a regulation size ring around them with a Dolly, a camera, poles and everyone is jostling, is both sophisticated and completely abstract. "
In the film, the sound is as important as the images.
Scorsese spends 6 months to mix the movie, like pictures, it takes a different approach by showing sequences Jake La Motta 
on or off the ring, the fight scenes are recorded in Dolby Stereo with sound effects so sometimes accented animal while also striking use of silence, As for the dialogues, they are normally recorded to support the concentration of Jake in the ring.
Taurus Bronx
For the fight scenes, Robert De Niro trained intensively for 18 months. Then, the shooting is interrupted for four months so that the actor can take the 30 extra pounds needed for the latter part of the film. As such, Scorsese is so concerned about the weight gain of De Niro
it reduced the duration of filming 17 to 10 days.
"Bobby had so much weight that he was breathing like I did when I asthma attack" remembers Scorsese. "With the weight that took, there was no question of 30 or 40 plugs. Three or four, no more. The body of Bobby telling him what to do. And it is quite naturally become another person ".
's concerns Martin Scorsese about the health of Robert De Niro were unfounded. But cons, director of health remained poor during the entire shoot. And when he fell ill again, the scene of the wedding reception of being filmed by his father, Charles Scorsese, Well it is not a professional director, Scorsese Senior knew exactly what to do and for good reason, the scene was inspired by his own marriage.
repugnant and detestable
The studio, far from convinced by the film tries throughout the period of post-production sell the film to another company. In vain, the film is uncomfortable. Steven Spielberg
compare the discomfort caused by the scenes of domestic violence, that which is to look through the open door of his neighbors and to catch a fight, knowing that we should not be there. It quickly became obvious that the film is not commercial at all, the studio then concentrated its marketing efforts on the $ 36 million for "The Door
of paradise. "
American criticism is much more impressed by the performance of Robert De Niro than the film itself, Variety The film describes stating that
"
Martin Scorsese made films about people you would not know"
Reviews are the remarkable fight scenes but consider
Jake La Motta as " one of the loathsome and detestable protagonists in film history. " They also write that the film is deliberately trying to alienate the public. However, elsewhere, the reactions were unanimous, " is the best film of the year . But it's still not enough.
The eight Oscar nominations seem to be a consolation, Best Film, Best Director (Martin Scorsese ), Best Actor (Robert De Niro
), Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci ) Best Supporting Actress (Cathy Moriarty
) best picture ( Michael Chapman), best sound and best editing (Thelma Schoonmaker ). But the Oscars is proving a disappointment for the first in its history, the ceremony was canceled when John Hindley pulls the
President Reagan, Although reports with "Taxi Driver
" have been made too late to affect the vote, Scorsese was escorted by two FBI agents towards the exit before the announcement of Best Picture, 
They tell him that "In all, how is the movie Robert Redford " Ordinary People "who will win ," Robert De Niro won his first Oscar and Thelma Schoonmaker
won the Best Editing, Scorsese meanwhile, returns empty-handed.
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