![]() And Raging Bull is the rise and fall story. While they purport to be about complex humanist stories of redemption, they simply cannot contend in terms of emotional intrigue with a good old fashioned rise and fall story. Bad decision.įor anyone who doesn't know the story, Raging Bull is effectively the filmic counter-point to films like The Wrestler and The Fighter. But blu-ray boxes don't lie (pffft!), and this week's 30th Anniversary Special Edition Blu-Ray is pretty firm evidence.īut, can we start with the cover? The film features some of the most iconic images in cinematic history- one of which the Special Edition DVD cover took advantage of to such success- and yet this celebratory edition features a bloated close-up image that looks more like a bad wax-work of Sylvester Stallone. Hard to believe that it has been 30 years since Robert De Niro pulled the original Christian Bale method-acting-insanity trick and hung the health consequences to balloon in weight for the role of Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
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