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Tesco Books Warehouse › Tesco Electrical Warehouse › Tesco Grocery Shopping › Tesco Wine Warehouse › Tesco Entertainment › Tesco Flower Shop. Raging Bull DVD Certificate: 18 - Suitable for persons over 18 Released: 01/01/2001 Normally dispatched within 14 days Tesco Price: £11.99 RRP: £15.99 Synopsis: Raging Bull is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, every ready to erupt. Vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, the fight sequences are famed for the realism. Violent throughout, this film is a testament to Scorsese`s and De Niro`s skills, creating a thoroughly absorbing film about such an unlikable character. Renowned for throwing himself into the ro les of his character, De Niro went on a diet to gain fifty pounds during production for the role of the faded star. The Preliminary BoutsIn 1973, while in Sicily filming the second Godfather movie, Robert De Niro read Jake La Motta`s autobiography, Rag ing Bull, written by the ex-champ with Joseph Carter and Peter savage. The book hit De Niro like a sharp left hook. `There was something about it - a strong thrust, a portrait of a direct man without complications. Something at the centre of it was very good for me. I felt I could evolve into the character,` the actor said Hoping that Martin Scorsese would share his excitement for the book`s film potential, De Niro gave it to him when the director was working on Alice Doesn`t Live Here Anymore (1974). Bu t Scorsese, who had already worked with De Niro on Mean Streets (1973) - and whose future collaborations with him would include Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), The King Of Comedy (1983), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and Casino (1995 ), was sceptical. `A boxer? I don`t like boxing,` he told De Niro. Later, Scorsese revealed more of his feelings to biographer Mary Pat Kelly: `The only logical fight I ever saw was (in) a Buster Keaton film. He`s in the ring with this big guy. The guy co mes out swinging. Keaton goes to the corner and gets a chair and hits the guy with it. That was the only logical boxing scene I ever witnessed. The idea of `Let`s get two guys into the ring and let them his each ot Television | Comedy | Children | Animation | Documentary | Natural History | Sport | Health/fitness | Learning | Music . Online shopping at Tesco UK is affordable, easy and 100% secure. Tesco offers all their usual wares - and more. Sections include: Books, Computer Games, DVDs, Electrical, Flowers, Music, The Nutrition Centre, Travel, Videos, Tesco Wine Warehouse and the Tesco Store Locator. Tesco UK supermarket - online grocery shopping with home delivery!