And who could know that Raging Bull would go on to become one of the most celebrated movies of its era? It seems astonishing 25 years later that there was no Raging Bull soundtrack album. The result was a collection of music that would have given a music licensing expert nightmares if a soundtrack album had been attempted at the time of the film's release. Scorsese did not employ a regular Hollywood composer to write a background score instead, he teamed with former Band guitarist Robbie Robertson in picking lots of period pop music of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, adding in excerpts from Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana, with Robertson bringing in a few instrumental tracks he cut with former compatriots Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel. It turned out to be a good move as Raging Bull is considered by many as the best film he has ever made.Director Martin Scorsese is known for the care he takes in choosing the music for his movies (indeed, he is known for the care he takes in every detail of his movies), and his 1980 film Raging Bull, a screen biography of the boxer Jake LaMotta, was no exception.

It was sports, which took me out of the picture.' Scorsese eventually agreed to direct the film after starting to relate to LaMotta's story. I didn't know what the hell was going on. 'It was always one angle on TV or in the movie theaters, where they'd show the fights on the weekend.

The interesting thing is Scorsese had no interest in directing the film at first, 'I didn't know anything about boxing,' Scorsese said in a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair. 1 ahead of Rocky, The Pride of the Yankees and Hoosiers. In June 2008, the American Film Institute ranked the 10 best sports movies of all-time, and Raging Bull came in at No. Due to the storytelling and action in the ring, Raging Bull is considered the best film of the 1980s. However, it also took a very close look at his obsessive rage and sexual jealousy, which led to him destroying his relationship with his wife and family. The film took a look at LaMotta's life as a boxer during the 1950s.

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