Why Did Jake LaMotta Get a Movie, But Not Robinson

[boxinggod101]

Cause they racist yo

[boliodogs]

Give it more time. Robinson will get his movie and some actor who can't box and doesn't look anything like Robinson will play the part of Robinson.

[HarvardBlue]

Raging Bull wasn't a flattering movie about LaMotta. It's was about what an obsessive, insecure person he was. The better question could be why did Mickey Ward get a movie made about him and not other more famous, more compelling boxers?

[Team Reek]

De Niro had wanted to make Raging Bull for years after reading the book but Scorsese didn't care to. Scorsese was depressed about abusing drugs and De Niro eventually convinced him to do it. Scorsese wasn't planning on making movies after that.

The movie version of LaMotta was a saint compared to how he really was. Read the book Raging Bull.

[Team Reek]

You know who else needs their own movie? Sonny Liston. Great story, no need to edit jack shít.

Ving Rhames starred in Phantom Punch and it was a joke.

in the story, the mafia demands Liston's manager to make Sonny take a dive against patterson. The manager never tells Sonny, and Sonny goes out and beats Patterson.

Liston's manager decides to bet on liston with the money the mob paid him, so the mob doesn't kill him when Liston doesn't take a dive.

Later on, Liston has an affair with his manager's girlfriend, and to get revenge, the manager ****s her and then tells doesn't tell Liston that the Mob wants him to take dives.

Liston doesn't take a dives, so he is killed by the Mob.

[Redd Foxx]

The film was a drama. It wasn't about who the best boxer was or even necessarily about the sport itself. That was just a backdrop to the life of the man they made the film about.

[A.K]

Didn't Robinson already get a movie? Usher played him

Shows your knowledge of the sport, and not only was that srl he played it was Durans movie smh

[McNulty]

Ving Rhames starred in Phantom Punch and it was a joke.

in the story, the mafia demands Liston's manager to make Sonny take a dive against patterson. The manager never tells Sonny, and Sonny goes out and beats Patterson.

Liston's manager decides to bet on liston with the money the mob paid him, so the mob doesn't kill him when Liston doesn't take a dive.

Later on, Liston has an affair with his manager's girlfriend, and to get revenge, the manager ****s her and then tells doesn't tell Liston that the Mob wants him to take dives.

Liston doesn't take a dives, so he is killed by the Mob.

Wow, no kidding eh?

I want Spielberg to do a Liston movie.

[GhostofDempsey]

HBO did an excellent documentary on him that was probably better than any biopic that could be made.