For all the reams of paper poured out on the grandeur of the recreations of Jake LaMotta's most celebrated bouts, which strike the movie like a drumbeat, Martin Scorsese had no interest in strategy or prowess. or even a GoodFellas, but the angry voice of American cinema rang as clear and cold as the ringside bell back in 1980, when Martin Scorsese laid down a peerless imprint of what cinema could aspire to - art, truth and exhaustion.

It is hard to adore Raging Bull like an E.T. The chocolatey velvet of its blood - incidentally, all Jake LaMotta's - spurting, gushing and draining away like rainwater, where every vital droplet tells you something you probably didn't want to know. Those virtuoso dimensions of character, boldly grim and depressing to the bitter end, reducing viewers to gibbering wrecks, slumped by the shocking depravity that can be touched by the human spirit. Those contrasting licks of docu-drab and dreamily inventive black-and-white cinematography, framed to perfection.

What to you is like a red rag to a bull? Write some example sentences.Let’s not quibble, Raging Bull is everything it is cracked up to be. 'It was like a red rag to a bull when Samantha heard John say that men should be paid more than women.' 'Don't tell him you support Manchester United - it's like a red rag to a bull!' Strangely enough, bulls are in fact colour-blind, and therefore the colour of the rag is irrelevant. Soon after came vipers, and then turkeys, and even Frenchmen! It wasn't until 1873 that bulls were added to the list. There are, apparently, a large number of things that were believed to be distracted or angered by the waving of a red cloth, and the original expression, in fact, mentioned pheasants. The expression may appear to have originated from bull-fighting, but this is not the case. Definition: Something that will cause an angry or violent reaction.Ī red rag to a bull is something - perhaps a comment or a criticism - intended to deliberately provoke someone else into reacting negatively.

Raging bull in colour