Why Did Jake LaMotta Get a Movie, But Not Robinson

[iamboxing]

Love Raging Bull, but SRR needs a movie....agree/disagree?

[Tom Cruise]

Lamotta was a more captivating personality, with a more dramatic style and just a better character arc for a film to follow.

Plus he was white, which undeniably helps in Hollywood. Especially back in the day

[BostonGuy]

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

[SkillspayBills]

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

That was Sugar Ray Leonard bro. Wouldn't blame you for no remembering that movie sucked lol

[iamboxing]

Scorcesse is a racist cvnt too. Every black person in his movies is either killed or dumb. Look at how SRR looks in Raging Bull....he looks like a skinny Ethiopian with gaunt facial features, when he was actually a handsome guy IRL.



and then there's the scene in taxi driver:

[iamboxing]

That was Sugar Ray Leonard bro. Wouldn't blame you for no remembering that movie sucked lol

Duran was actually pretty good for what it was, a boxing biopic. Critics got it wrong.

[SilverMiles]

Love Raging Bull, but SRR needs a movie....agree/disagree?

Because someone decided to make a movie about him.

[soul_survivor]

Love Raging Bull, but SRR needs a movie....agree/disagree?

I'm not even that big a fan of Raging Bull, or Scorsese in general tbh.

I completely agree, there needs to be a Robinson film. He was the most iconic fighter of the late 40s and much of the 50s and there is just so much in his life to show on screen.

[Boxnation fan]

[Boxnation fan]

Scorcesse is a racist cvnt too. Every black person in his movies is either killed or dumb. Look at how SRR looks in Raging Bull....he looks like a skinny Ethiopian with gaunt facial features, when he was actually a handsome guy

I don't think he was a racist as much as he didn't really do stories that involved black characters.

Remember that his main actor during his 70/80's/90's films was Robert De Niro only dates or marries African American women.

I'd much rather Scorsese stayed away from telling African American stories in the same way Spielberg should have too rather then take to rewrite history in The Colour Purple and Amistad and pretend it wasn't the Jews who were the main people behind the African Slave Trade.