Especially at a time when color cinema stands as the standard. The assumed meaning of color is better, more life and joy than black and white. The viewer’s immediate instinct is to be excited, relieved that we get to see more dimensions. The montage, or intermission, is also the only part of the film that is in color. To this point, there are two distinct parts to the movie, before Jake marries Vickie and after they are married. The only happy moments are represented in a montage, giving us a few moments of reprieve-almost like an intermission.

The whole film is a succession of fights and arguments. I am not talking about the other fighters, I am talking about Vickie, Joey, Salvy, and even his coach. For the entirety of the film, we watch people trying to get in the ring with Jake La Motta. Regularly voted among the greatest actors of his generation, De Niro won two Academy Awards before he was 40.ĭe Niro scored his first Oscar, for best supporting actor, in 1974's 'The Godfather Part II,' followed by another in 1981 for his leading actor role as boxer Jake LaMotta in 'Raging Bull.“Raging Bull” is one of those films that you could watch a hundred times, but every time you rewatch it, you realize it is not the movie you remembered. He also had twin sons with model Toukie Smith, whom he dated in the late 1980s and early 1990s.ĭe Niro is currently promoting his new comedy film 'About My Father,' which will be released in US theaters May 26.

The almost-octogenarian already shares two children with his first wife, 'Taxi Driver' co-star Diahnne Abbott, and two more with socialite Grace Hightower, from whom he separated in 2018.

'I just had a baby,' he told ET Canada, without revealing the baby's gender or the identity of the mother.ĭe Niro's publicist confirmed the news to AFP. Robert De Niro has become a father again at the age of 79, the 'Raging Bull' actor said in a recent interview.ĭouble-Oscar winner De Niro corrected an interviewer who suggested he only had six children, telling her it is now 'seven, actually.'

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