Raging Bull/Trivia


 * Creator Breakdown: This was apparently a vaguely personal project of Martin Scorsese.
 * Dyeing for Your Art: Robert De Niro put on 60 pounds to play the retired Jake LaMotta, arguably starting the trend.
 * Playing Against Type: Joey LaMotta is played by Joe Pesci. Yes, that Joe Pesci. Of course, it was before he was typecast. Pesci still manages to start a fight by breaking a glass over someone's head, and ending it by slamming their head and shoulders repeatedly in a car door. He does apologize after, but only at the insistence of an old mobster.
 * It still counts though as compared to DeNiro, he's really the collected one. It's Jake that has the Hair-Trigger Temper.