The film about his life, based on his book Raging Bull, My Story, was released in 1980 and was made on a script written by Scorsese with Paul Schrader, on a random island in the Caribbean, over a period of about 15 days.
Raging Bull, a classic film, is a mini biography of the turbulent and tormented life of the man from New York as Giacobbe La Motta on (10-7-1922 /10-9-2017), and known as Jake La Motta, The Bull of the Bronx, the New York neighborhood that idolized him. Seven sequels were made to the film, which was finished and exhibited in 1976. Rocky is a fighter of a certain quality, although not very enthusiastic about the gym, enthusiasm that is stoked when he is chosen as an opponent with no chance of victory, he trains with tenacity and at the last bell he ends up in the role of hero despite losing on points to a Creed who, with agonizing difficulty, retains his crown. In the fiction Rocky Balboa, as insignificant a ring pawn as Wepner, emerges from the shadows when he is randomly chosen as a title challenger by heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. The fight was witnessed on TV almost 3 thousand kilometers from his apartment in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, by the still unknown Stallone on the night of. For Stallone, Rocky Balboa was Chuck Wepner, a boxer ignored in real life who, in a heavyweight world title fight against The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, stoically resisted for 44’41” against a superior opponent to end up losing just before the end of the 15-round bout, staged in Richfield, Ohio. In the following 12 or 13 lines we will try to make up for this omission, although there are thousands who know the plot much better than we do. With this note, we hope to close the subject with a reference to Raging Bull, a film starring the multifaceted and award-winning American actor Robert De Niro with the equally award-winning Martin Scorsese in the direction of a production considered by a majority of connoisseurs as the best for the big screen in sports over time, perhaps only with Rocky, by the actor Sylvester Stallone, as the only other film that could dispute the place of privilege.Ī few days ago, we presented an extensive article on Rocky, however, in it we omitted a more detailed mention in relation to the plot. With this note, the third on the presence of boxing in the glamorous and fascinating Seventh Art, born in the late nineteenth century, in 1894, thanks to the genius of the French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
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