Raging Bull

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• United Artists were unable to actively promote the film for awards consideration as it was then embroiled in serious financial trouble following the _Heaven's Gate (1981)_ debacle.
• Robert De Niro's performance as Jake LaMotta is ranked #10 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
• Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci are really punching each other in the famous "hit me" scene.
• Martin Scorsese claims that nothing should be read into his using the On the Waterfront quote. Jake LaMotta, in his declining years, used to appear on stage reciting dialogue from television plays and even reading William Shakespeare. According to Scorsese, he'd planned to use something from "Richard III" (because in the corresponding real-life event LaMotta used it), but director Michael Powell suggested that "Richard III" wouldn't work in the context of the film because the film in general and LaMotta in particular are inherently American. Scorsese picked the lines from "On the Waterfront".