It focuses on the life of the famous middle weight boxer Jake LaMotta, who is known to have had abusive tendencies towards his wife, and problems with overindulgence in a range of vices. Master director Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull was released in 1980. Let me talk about the cinematography in the fight entrance scene of ‘Raging Bull’.
When we looking deeply into a film with cinematography, elements can include the positioning of camera (camera angle, camera level, camera height as well as camera distance), choice of lens, choice of film stock, exposure and finally, using of color. Different from Mise en scene, cinematography is the activity that contributes to a film and film-making. (DeNiro famously gained sixty pounds in order to be able properly to impersonate the aging, retired La Motta).In the previous film studies seminars, we were talking about Cinematography. What do you make of the film's emphasis on the male body, particularly the body of De Niro as Jake La Motta? Consider both the goriness and physical intensity of the boxing sequences, and LaMotta's corpulence in the framing narrative and in the later parts of the story. How do all these elements contribute to or reinforce the film's meanings? And what about the pacing and organization of the narrative? Why does the film skip over some important events, and dwell for a long time on others? What sort of style does Scorsese give to this film? Consider the decors (the apartments, the boxing ring, the nightclubs), and the use of a highly mobile camera in some sequences, and of tight editing in others. Why is the film, made in 1980, shot in black and white? What kind of lighting does Scorsese use? How do lighting and (lack of) color affect the overall feel of the film? Is this "realism" (as Bordwell and Thompson suggest) or something else? And what do you make of the one color sequence, with the sense it gives of home movies? What do you make of Bordwell and Thompson's interpretive suggestions? Consider particularly the ways in which they suggest that the film charts a course between identification with Jake LaMotta and a critique of him also the suggestions of subtexts involving violence, masochism, and repressed homosexuality. Try to perceive the overall narrative structure of the film, and think about how this structure colors the movie's multiple meanings. Read the discussion of this film in the textbook (Bordwell and Thompson, 426-431). Written by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, from the book by Jake LaMotta, with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage. Raging Bull Raging Bull Directed by Martin Scorsese, 1980
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