Scorsese was coming off the failure of a big expensive movie, New York, New York, and he was in a bit of a personal crisis. And look for further than the in-depth "DVD special feature-esque" story on Cinephilia & Beyond for every little detail. Looking at how Scorsese planned the sequence, and literally delivered that exact plan in the final edit, is a master class in pre-visualization all it's own.īut before we get to the images in question, we should contextualize the movie itself. Thanks to Farout Magazine and Cinephilia & Beyond, we can take a look at Martin Scorsese's hand-drawn storyboards for Raging Bull, specifically from the pivotal and unforgettable fight between Jake LaMotta and Sugar Ray Robinson. One of the things we easily forget about directing is that it requires many disciplines to merge, and some of the best directing doesn't come down to one methodology but more likely a hybrid. Raging Bull is known in part for its excellent improvisation, but this sequence was precisely planned.
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