![]() Producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler produced the critical and financially successful Rocky and you can imagine them on the opportunity to produce Raging Bull saying, “Scorsese wants to make a boxing movie? How can we lose?” But Raging Bull was a very different movie than Rocky. A film that in one sense he smuggled past studios on the backs of the success of the 1977 Oscar-winning Best Film Rocky. What jumps to mind is the opening scene of Raging Bull (1980). And as he’s about to release his newest film this month, The Wolf of Wall Street-and begins to talk about retirement-he is a new old master well worth studying. ![]() My last post was about Martin Scorsese saying that he “still considered himself a student,” that he was “always looking for something or someone I can learn from,” and encouraging young filmmakers to “study the old masters.” Of course, he made those remarks in 1995, and now at age 71 I think he certainly is one of cinema’s living masters. I don’t know how else to discuss it other than to make a film about it.” And I’m sorry to have to talk in that way about these films, but that is what they are about. “I’m just obsessed with this search for a spiritual core in life. ![]() “The desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other.” ![]()
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