Raging Bull analysis

It is pretty evident that the first thing to note about Raging Bull is the choice of making it black and white. I feel like it was Scorsese's idea so the audience gets the nostalgic feeling. Then again, it also could be so something like the editing would be so seem less. Think about it, if there is less varying degrees of color than the transitions should be pretty smooth.

As previously said, the editing in Raging Bull was very smooth. Personally, I could not pick it up at all. The boxing scenes were by far the most intense editing. I can only imagine how long it took to put all of that together. The very slow shots, to the very fast shots gave the feel of how it must be to be in a boxing match like those. These transitions from slow to fast (especially in the last fight) could make someone (me) forget about watching for editing, no matter how many times I watch it. It also gave the feel of the rhythm of the boxers punches (rhythmic editing!!!) On top of this, the match almost had the feel of a conversation. They had an establishing shot when they went into the center to fight, they went back and forth (or forth with the punches to LaMotta), and they had a few reestablishing shots with added two-shots. I also noticed how the over the shoulder shots gave you the feel that you were actually punching LaMotta, or getting punched by Sugar Ray with the medium shots.