Raging Bull

Probably the best output from the paring of Scorsese and De Niro. It’s a movie that features some of the best and bloodiest fight scenes ever made, but its not really about boxing. Its about the dumb, bloody minded jealousy of the former prize fighter Jake LaMotta, a man with such low self esteem that he cannot accept that his wife would want to sleep with him or that she could possible not be having affairs with just about any other man. LaMotta is a real character who rose to be the middle weight world champion in the 1940s, but then sank into oblivion as a third rate stand up comic and ended up in jail for corrupting the morals of an underage girl. De Niro is completely committed to the performance, for which he won an Oscar. He became LaMotta, gaining weight to the extent that he looks completely different at the end of the movie.