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Do women like Raging Bull?

posted 8 years ago by fede_4488
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It has so much testosterone, it drips from the screen. Female characters are treated like crap and literal punching bags. And bless if you're a black woman and you watch this film...

[–] tobetheligo 8 years ago

My wife (23 Year Old) only knew Scorcesse from Shark Tale...and I recently made her watch Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino, Goodfellas, The Departed, and a few others before Silence comes out locally...out of all of those movies her favorite was Raging Bull...I wouldn't be have guessed it.

[–] filmmagnet 8 years ago

She might be interested to know that he has shown a feminine side in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and The Age of Innocence as well as a family friendly side (as a director) in Hugo.

[–] filmmagnet 8 years ago

If you want to know what men and women feel about a film you can click on the number of votes. This takes you to the voting breakdown. One of the things you can compare is the male and female ratings for a film. This is 8.3 for males and 7.8 for females so still pretty solid for women if not as high but no way of telling for black women sorry. Anyway no healthy person man or woman will give a film like this a high rating because they enjoy the violence against women, it's about being compelling and powerfully acted.

[–] fede_4488 8 years ago

Thanks, I didn't know that.

Anyway no healthy person man or woman will give a film like this a high rating because they enjoy the violence against women, it's about being compelling and powerfully acted.

Of course, it's just that women might be more sensitive to the misogyny in this film, and rightfully so.

[–] fzane (1105) 6 years ago

It was not powerfully acted. It was just violent overblown aggression that is not fun to watch. No one acts like that, so it's just not even realistic really. This trash film was just propped up by the mob. Nothing more.

[–] johnmiller (3889) 6 years ago

Only if they "enjoy" watching women get the hell beaten out of them.

[–] liscarkat (18373) 2 years ago

My wife and I watched it together, and she liked it.

[–] Zarkoff (1853) 4 months ago

The movie doesn't come right out and tell you what to think, because Scorsese is a brilliant movie maker and knows better than that, but I think most people will realize how toxic La Motta is.

Scorsese does make a lot of movies about these brutal, violent sort of men. I think he grew up around people like that, in New York. It left a mark on him.

Like filmlingo pointed out, he's done movies on other topics, and with a very different approach.

[–] Luffy (1236) 4 months ago

For me Raging Bull is very inferior to Taxi Driver, and I prefer Casino to the former (despite knowing that RB is the 'better' movie).

Scorsese was always intellectually dishonest about his use of violence.

Also they had to pay La Motta even more to make him say that had De Niro boxed for real, he would make it as a boxer.

[–] DoctorThirteen (13936) 4 months ago

'Scorsese does make a lot of movies about these brutal, violent sort of men. I think he grew up around people like that, in New York. It left a mark on him.'

That does make sense.