Found inside – Page 285Leslie Hamilton. Requiem for a Heavyweight The mighty Quinn . A " You owe me . ” -Anthony Quinn could , in fact , have been a contender . For a great double feature , rent it with Raging Bull . Seen it but in the mood for something similar ? Found insideRaging Bull's great theme is incarnation. ... Waterfront (1954): 'I could have been a contender; I could have been somebody', he says; 'it was you, Charlie; ... Found insideAnd where Raging Bull continued to elevate De Niro's stardom, ... training for Raging Bull; by the time of the film he really could have been a contender. Found insideThen we got talking about the movie Raging Bull--it had just been released--and he cracked, 'Maybe I shoulda married Jake LaMotta. Found inside – Page 97De Niro / La Motta plays the scene from Chayevsky's On the Waterfront , the ' I coulda been a contender ' speech made famous by Marlon Brando , and does an ... To call Raging Bull a boxing picture is ridiculous , ' Scorsese later said . Found inside—Chip (1949) (Frank Sinatra) to Brunhilde Esterhazy (Betty Garrett) On the “I coulda had class, I coulda been a contender, I could have been Water-front ... Found inside – Page 1056Raging Bull earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and ... in baseball history, but one wonders how much more he could have been. Found inside... patterned after Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), ... I could have been a contender, instead of a cartoon, which is what I am. Found inside – Page 50In Raging Bull, LaMotta loses his championship belt and ends up alone in a jail ... Brando's poignant admission, “I could have been a contender instead of a ... Found inside – Page 159Think of Jake La Motta's ''I could have been a contender'' speech at the end of Raging Bull (1980) – this is De Niro doing La Motta doing Brando – or Rupert ... Found inside – Page 41In (quasi-)fiction, Raging Bull (1980) revived Brando's infamous “I could've been a contender” speech from On the Waterfront, and William Plummer described ... Found inside – Page 60It's a commitment to acting Pesci said has been misinterpreted: Robert did ... His final monologue is the famous “I could have been a contender” speech from ... Found inside – Page 67What does it mean to have La Motta deliver this lament that he could have been a contender instead of a bum when it's clear that La Motta is both a champ and a bum ? ... He is no longer trapped within his negative identity as raging bull . Found inside – Page 19The lack of contrast and shading reduces Raging Bull to less than the sum of its parts . ... to the line " I coulda been a contender - I coulda been somebody , instead of a bum , which is what I am , " his phrasing is awkward , his intonation flat . Found insideGangs had Oscar written all over it, especially since Martin Scorsese, who should have won for Raging Bull, if not for Goodfellas, had never been honored. Found inside – Page 243Marlon Brando could have been a contender in On The Waterfront if he hadn't gone down under orders from his mobbed ... to hit the canvas in Pulp Fiction ; and Raging Bull ( 1980 ) doesn't pull its punches about boxing's Mob connections . Found inside – Page 221SEE ALSO : Raging Bull ( “ Real Sports Movies " ) My Left Foot ( " Writers ” ) Silence of the Lambs ... WHAT TO EAT In honor of Mean Streets , have some Sicilian - style pizza . Then , in honor of ... I could've been a contender . I could've been ... Found inside – Page 159In the last shot of Raging Bull, Scorsese appears partially reflected in a ... of the “I could have been a contender” scene from On the Waterfront (1954), ... Found inside – Page 70And he dearly loves Marty , who has come to be the guiding parental figure he always longed for . ... a deluxe edition of Raging Bull on DVD , and Rocky himself , Sylvester Stallone , on the tube with a new reality show called The Contender , the time would appear to be ... As we eventually learn , Marty could have been a contender too were it not for the fact that he was outed as gay in his youth , sending ... Found inside – Page 822... I could have been a contender , " somewhat earlier than Robert De Niro in Raging Bull . The snobbishness evident in that last example begins , though , to infect the last stretch of the play . There are clues throughout that Claire Rushbrook's ... Found inside... his act speech , after all , about one brother's unsatisfied emotional dependence upon another ( ' I could have been a contender .... ' ) . The narrative of Raging Bull , then , has its own inner logic , its own internal correspondences and inter ... Found insideIt's been imitated in everything from Looney Tunes to 1980's Raging Bull to ... in their best breathy Marlon Brando voice, “I could've been a contender. Found inside – Page 129Raging Bull is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in ... But for himself, LaMotta could have been a contender with staying power, ... Found inside – Page 115his hands after a day's work and wishes aloud he had some other line of business . ... To watch actors using episodic techniques with an awareness that they are doing so , study any one of the performances in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull ( 1980 ) , the biographical story of the ... and awkward way , including I could have been a contender — a line made famous in On the Waterfront when delivered by ... Found inside – Page 84to be told in a story which related as much to the director himself directly as it did to the themes involved . ... film meant that everything , or as much as he was capable of producing in his state of health , would be put in to Raging Bull to make it a classic . ... to point the finger at , as perfectly evoked in his final speech - recalling that he could have been a contender if it wasn't for all those hangers - on and ... Found inside – Page 91The Alpine hero's luck turns in Madison Square Garden when he throttles a raging bull . Tonio , the film suggests , could have been a contender . Found inside'Raging Bull, Somebody Up There Likes Me [based on the life of Rocky ... It was you, Charlie, you, you was my brother; I could have been a contender. Found insideIt's a lovely scene; and you don't have to be a Minnelli fan—I'm not, ... recites Brando's famously heartbreaking I-coulda-been-a-contender speech into ... Found insidemoment in Taxi Driver, or Jake LaMotta's 'I could have been a contender' reflection in Raging Bull. Pop culture links: the New Hollywood directors, too, ... Found insideThis is an engrossing and candid book, a beguiling exploration of what it means to be a producer, including purchasing rights, developing scripts, casting actors, managing directors, editing film, and winning awards. Found inside – Page 11... in his own night club ("Jake La Motta' s"), quoting Brando, and droning on about how he too "could have been a contender." If Raging Bull is about ... Found inside – Page 269Yet their collaborations have exerted more influence on the art and craft of acting ... Brando transformed the screenplay's “I could have been a contender” ... Found inside – Page 165The decision by Scorsese and De Niro to have LaMotta render a slightly scrambled rendition of Terry Malloy's 'I could have been a contender' speech, ... Found inside – Page 144I could have been a contender A crucial figure which provides the central focus in Scorsese's Raging Bull and in Avildsen's Rocky is Marlon Brando's Terry ... Found inside – Page 222It's a fall from grace : he has that he could have been a contender given up the only thing that counts . instead of a bum ... He Major Credit Cards Accepted Open Weekdays 9 A.M. - 6 P.M. New York ” and “ Raging Bull ” is says , “ ' Play Dirty ... Found inside – Page 65For the extraordinary thing about Jake La Motta in Raging Bull is precisely that he has no history . ... He delivers , in front of a mirror , Marlon Brando's famous lines from On the Waterfront— “ I could have been a contender " -and they are so ... Found inside – Page 349Only someone from within that community could properly assess how successful ... of Brando's “I could have been a contender” scene from On the Waterfront. 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