Raging Bull Director
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In the following scene from Raging Bull, Jake La Motta is fixing his television set and talking to his brother Joey about his wife’s sexual behavior. Jake accuses Joey and others of sleeping with his wife, Vickie. Despite Joey’s loyalty, he is offended over Jake’s desperately reaching attempts to find betrayal and disloyalty among those who care most for him. It is a major turning point in the film because it is the point where Jake’s personal demons cause him to push those who love him most away from him. His personal and professional decline begin.The mise en scene is well developed in this scene. Jake is a pool of emotional passion and all impulse with little education. He goes through life entertaining others with skills successful in the ring but unsuccessful outside of it. The director has him fixing his television set in this scene which is fuzzy and cannot receive a clear picture. This is an excellent juxtapositioning of images. Both Jake and the TV are mechanistic entertainment machines who are either “on” or “off” with little in between capability. Likewise, as is the television set, Jake is fuzzy and cannot get a clear picture of who his friends are and who are his enemies. He, like the TV set, is unable to get “clear” of his own demons. The mise en scene is also well done in that it reinforces themes of character and action. Joey is seated on a couch and shots of him show a statue just off to his screen left w
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