Like a wild bull

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Movie
German title Like a wild bull
Original title Raging Bull
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1980
length 124 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Martin Scorsese
script Paul Schrader ,
Mardik Martin
production Robert Chartoff ,
Irwin Winkler
music Pietro Mascagni
camera Michael Chapman
cut Thelma Schoonmaker
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synchronization

Raging Bull (Original Title: Raging Bull ) is a mainly black and white twisted boxing drama of Martin Scorsese from the year 1980 about the rise and fall of the boxer Jake LaMotta .

Although the work received critical comments at the time of its first publication because of the language and depictions of violence, Wie ein Wilder Stier is now recognized as one of the best and most important films in American cinema. The film not only made it to number two on the Sight & Sound directors list in 1992 , it also made it to fourth place on the American Film Institute's 2007 list . In 1990 it was inducted into the National Film Registry and has also been named one of the best films of the 1980s and ever by major critics such as Roger Ebert .

action

"That's entertainment" . With these words, the former boxer Jake LaMotta prepares for a performance as an entertainer in 1964.

1941: Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey have set themselves the goal of making Jake world middleweight champion. They live in the harsh area of ​​the Bronx , New York , where local mafia boss Tommy Como has considerable influence. Como also controls the middleweight boxing matches, which is why Joey urges Jake to enter into an alliance of convenience with the mafia: Jake participates in the betting fraud and wins the fight for the world title after losing the fight to Billy Fox in November 1947 as instructed .

Jake meets the underage Vickie through Joey at a swimming pool and starts a relationship with her. At this point his marriage to Irma was already broken. After endless arguments with her, he finally divorced Irma and married Vickie in 1945.

On June 15, 1949, he won against Marcel Cerdan by a technical knockout and thereby won the world title in middleweight division. However, it is difficult for him to defend the title, as he lets himself go in the preparation time and is increasingly putting on fat. Jake develops a morbid and unfounded jealousy about Vickie and thinks she is cheating on him. When she throws at him in exasperation that she has relationships with his brother and half of the neighborhood, Jake feels his mistrust confirmed. He beats up Joey and knocks Vickie down. The reconciliation with his brother fails. Eventually he lost his world title to Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951 . In this fight he accepts the opponent's blows on the verge of unconsciousness and without cover.

After the end of his career as a boxer, Jake - meanwhile heavily overweight - moves to Florida and becomes the owner of a bar where he also appears as a conférencier with slippery announcements. Vickie is getting a divorce from him. Since minors frequent his bar and he sets them up with other men, Jake ends up in jail. The low point of his life has been reached. After serving his sentence, Jake makes up with his brother. Jake becomes an entertainer - a kind of stand-up comedian . While preparing for an appearance, Jake recites Marlon Brando's famous speech from the taxi scene in the classic film Die Faust im Nacken .

background

John Turturro makes a brief appearance at Club Webster Hall .

The intermezzo of the Italian opera Cavalleria rusticana was used as the musical background for the opening and closing credits .

Historical inaccuracies

In the first fight scene between Jake La Motta and Jimmy Reeves, Jimmy Reeves wins unanimously. In truth, the fight ended with an SD (split decision), i.e. a 2 to 1 rating for Jimmy Reeves.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created in 1980 based on the dialogue script and dialogue direction by Ivar Combrinck .

role actor German Voice actor
Jake LaMotta Robert De Niro Christian Brückner
Joey La Motta Joe Pesci Hartmut Neugebauer
Vickie La Motta Cathy Moriarty Angelika Bender
Salvy Batts Frank Vincent Herbert Weicker
Tommy Como Nicholas Colasanto Wolf Ackva
Irma Lori Anne Flax Marion Hartmann
Patsy Frank Adonis Leo Bardischewski
Mario Mario Gallo Arnim André
Guido Joseph Bono Thomas Rau
comedian Bernie Allen Erik Schumann

reception

criticism

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The Lexicon of International Films wrote: “Masterful cinematic biography of former middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta. Director Scorsese takes the story, which ran in episodes between 1941 and 1964, as an opportunity for the psychological study of a self-destructive and violent person, but also describes the social environment, "Little Italy", the Italian immigrant district of New York. Above all through the uncompromisingly tough fight scenes and the brilliant interpretation of Robert de Niro, the film reaches an oppressive intensity. "

Katharina Stumm from Critic.de wrote: “ Like a wild bull is probably one of Scorsese's most thorough elaborations of a topic that preoccupies him in many of his films: certain forms of masculinity and associated male values. Jake La Motta has his own idea of ​​all of this, and he desperately clings to it, even as he degenerates from a celebrated boxing champion to a fat, relatively successful stand-up comedian. "

Recognition in critic surveys

In a survey of film critics, Like a Wild Bull was named the best film of the 80s. In November 2002, another poll - this time it was about the best film of the last quarter of a century - voted second place by 50 British film critics and writers; the first prize went to Francis Ford Coppola with his Vietnam - war film Apocalypse Now .

In the American Film Institute published lists of the 100 best American films of all time is Raging Bull represented both times: in the 1998 edition at position 24 and in the 2007 edition ranked 4th appeared in 2008, one published by the American Film Institute List of top 10 sports films of all time. The film was placed at number 1. It also reached number 51 in the list of the best 100 thrillers of all time, which the American Film Institute also compiled.

Awards

The film received the following awards and nominations:

Oscars 1981

Golden Globe Awards 1981

literature

  • Dana Poppenberg, Gerhard Poppenberg: Martin Scorsese. Introduction to his films and film aesthetics. Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7705-5766-0 , pp. 93-99.

Individual evidence

  1. rogerebert.com
  2. boxrec.com
  3. Like a wild bull in the German dubbing index
  4. a b rottentomatoes.com at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on December 16, 2014.
  5. a b metacritic.com at Metacritic , accessed December 16, 2014.
  6. Raging Bull in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  7. Like a wild bull. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 26, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. Short review on Critic.de
  9. Movies, Oscars and Millions. Axel Springer SE, September 18, 2009, accessed on December 2, 2018 .
  10. Apocalypse Now voted best movie. BBC News, November 8, 2002, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  11. Top 10 Sports. American Film Institute, accessed December 2, 2018 .

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