For example, take a look at think pieces on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. People often confuse performance with character. Raging Bull is a direct cinematic descendant of Italian Neorealism (movies about survival) and deconstructs a troubled man’s code complex. He directed a movie for self-aware adults with a basic understanding of how emotional intelligence works. But here’s the thing: Scorsese didn’t intend to make an uplifting boxing drama like Rocky. In today’s film culture, the morally righteous are always quick to point out that Raging Bull’s subject, a real-life boxer named Jake LaMotta, isn’t “relatable” or “likable.” And why? Because he does things, in a movie, that should NOT be done in real life. Occasionally, it even gets lumped in with Scorsese’s “gangster movies” as a shorthand to dismiss the director as a one-trick pony. ![]() Raging Bull - a complex character study about methods and codes of conduct - all too often gets reductively tagged as Martin Scorsese’s toxic masculinity sports movie that allowed Robert De Niro to lose (and gain) weight in pursuit of an Oscar. The Code Complex is a Vague Visages column about complex movie characters and the psychology behind their behavior.
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