![]() ![]() However, Jake is constantly paranoid about Vikki getting involved with other men and becomes abusive towards her and everyone in her vicinity. Four years later, Jake and Vikki get married, and he seriously begins to go after the title. He becomes distracted by Vikki, a teenage girl in the neighborhood whom he thinks is the most thing he’s ever seen. Jake is very hesitant to get involved with those people. His brother Joey (Joe Pesci) pushes the idea of going for the middleweight title and using his mob connections to make it happen. Jake is nineteen and suffers his first loss in the ring. ![]() In 1964, we watch the older, overweight LaMotta (DeNiro) practicing a stand-up comedy routine in a dressing room mirror. Now, as he lay in a hospital bed, his body ravaged, he began to understand how people destroy themselves and climb to get back to where they started. Scorsese had been reticent to make the film because he didn’t get it initially. The book was Raging Bull, a memoir by Bronx boxer Jake LaMotta. He visited the filmmaker in the hospital and proposed that the two collaborate on adapting a book DeNiro had given Scorsese years earlier. Robert De Niro is credited as one of the people vital in saving Scorsese’s life. Scorsese abused his body to the point that he was hospitalized for internal bleeding and was thoroughly addicted to cocaine. He entered into a period of wild partying, with cocaine being his self-medication of choice. The depression that hit after New York, New York’s box office and critical failure was tremendous. By 1979, Martin Scorsese wondered if he might die soon.
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