“Since I’m not an island person there was nothing else to do but work on the script,” he said. The island setting was perfect for Scorsese. Martin in the Caribbean to do a final pass.
After that, Winkler sent Scorsese and De Niro to St. “Schrader gave us the structure - the biggest problem was the structure,” he said. ** Screenwriter Mardik Martin did the first draft of the “Raging Bull” script but it was “Taxi Driver” scribe Paul Schrader who “cracked it,” De Niro recalled. The audience of movie buffs swooned at the mention of two other bona fide classic films.
“Then I had to do ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘The Deer Hunter,’ ” De Niro said. De Niro recalled that he was working on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “1900” when he first read La Motta’s biography.
Scorsese and De Niro first began talking about it in 1974 but it took Scorsese some time to understand the character, and both of them were busy. ** “Raging Bull” was a long-gestating project. Here are seven more things we learned from revisiting the majesty of movies via “Raging Bull.” “It’s late in New York, Ben,” Scorsese chided at one point. So Mankiewicz could be forgiven for holding the “Raging Bull” quartet on stage while he had them. (And yet, Joe Pesci nearly steals the picture with his prowess as Joey, La Motta’s brother-manager.) Scorsese’s take on the highs and lows of 1940s “Bronx Bull” boxer Jake La Motta endures as masterpiece, a blend of grit, arthouse, matchless fight sequences and an Oscar-winning performance by De Niro that stands as a high-water mark for an actor’s transformation into a character. The movie demonstrated its own legend by screening to a nearly packed (and vaccine-screened) house. It was a lot of fun to do.As the “Raging Bull” foursome shared memories of making the movie and perspective on its impact after 40-plus years, Mankiewicz couldn’t help going over (by a lot) his allotted Q&A time. And so that’s where we are and the script is being re-worked again. And I said, ‘Sure! Fine.’ So it’s been going through these kind of changes." When quizzed about what his character will be doing he continued, "Well, he’s helping the son of Charles Grodin he’s gotten himself in trouble. If somebody comes up with a great, great script, I’d read it and say, ‘Yeah, it’s great, I’ll think about it, consider it, sure." On Midnight Run 2 he spewed, "Somebody approached me, a young writer and he said how much he liked and he said, ‘I’m writing a sequel if you want to ’. When asked about the recently announced Raging Bull 2 he said, "Well, I don’t know about it (laughter). 's Mike Flemming also conducted a funny Q&A with De Niro and he answered some online questions as well as scribe queries. Robert De Niro's Tribecca Film Festival is in full swing, which means the normally reclusive and press shy legendary actor is being quizzed by journalists on his own upcoming projects as he's knocking about New York.
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