![]() John's Gospel, chapter 3, beginning with verse 3: "Verily, verily I saw unto thee except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." By the time Raging Bull was completed, Scorsese decided to change the citation to later lines in St. ![]() The original script ended with images of Jake shadowboxing, a description of Jake as "still alive, still a condender, a forty-two year old man fighting for a shot," and a citation from St. The title cards with which Scorsese chooses to end Raging Bull suggest that he did not feel equivocal about La Motta's salvation. From Les Keyser's Martin Scorsese (Twayne Publishers: New York, 1992), pages 121-122: However, it wasn't how the script originally ended. And because he's on that animalistic level, he may be closer to pure spirit." And therefore he must think in a different way, he must be aware of certain things spiritually that we aren't, because our minds are too cluttered with intellectual ideas, and too much emotionalism. As Scorsese describes La Motta: "He works on an almost primitive level, almost an animal level. "All I know is this: once I was blind and now I can see." On this level, La Motta's life becomes a kind of spiritual odyssey of the kind encountered before in the work of Schrader and Scorsese, both separately and in collaboration one with another. John's gospel preceding the final credits, which tells of a man whose sight has been restored by Christ rebuking the Pharisees: "Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know," the man replied. For Scorsese himself, La Motta's trajectory from promising boxer to middleweight champion of the world to night-club performer is the story of "a guy attaining something and losing everything, and then redeeming himself." Such a reading is clearly reinforced by the quotation from St. Martin Scorsese's telling of the story of Jake La Motta has given rise to a number of different, often conflicting, readings. ![]() "Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know," Summoned the man who had been blind and said: The final title commemorates Jake's "once I was blind and now I can The quote both relates how, by the end of the film, Jake LaMotta has found his own peace and as a tribute to Martin Scorsese's film teacher, Haig P.
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