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STUNNING ARTISTRY: RAGING BULL...
This is not to say that all great biographical filmmaking must center around the verisimilitude of a performance or novel interpretations of events. Indeed, a film like Raging Bull does not achieve its greatness through either of these, but instead more for its enthralling and ultimately tragic story and the artistic greatness of director Martin Scorsese. Based on the true story of mid-20th century boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull seeks to do more than simply recount events and re-interpret them; instead, it is rich with artistic adornments such as beautiful cinematography (especially in its stunningly real...
...viewer of Raging Bull does not need to know the first thing about Jake LaMotta the real man, nor even the first thing about boxing, for the film achieves its greatness through its aesthetic brilliance and through its touching metadiscourse on the sturm und drang of the human soul. Of course, the film also benefits greatly from an incredible performance by Robert De Niro—but in the end the legacy of Raging Bull is that of a surpassing work of art, rather than a piece centered around one performance...
Never mix a 200-pound python and a pit bull. A California guy did this and the former ate the latter. For safety reasons, officials could not corral the python...
...toughest regimen of all. Archers regularly go on forced moonlit marches. At past sessions, they have handled snakes, practiced nighttime combat-style beach landings and run up mountains while carrying boats. Physically demanding, the weird regime also hones the mental toughness archers need to consistently plunk arrows into a bull's-eye 70 m away. But a few athletes are fighting back, criticizing such workouts as not worth the risk. Midway through the August training camp, which was meant to prepare athletes for the Archery World Championship held two weeks ago in Beijing, four male archers suddenly quit. The Korean...