... is no spectacle; no one is there to see it but himself. In the Miami jail, it becomes clear Jake was the protagonist of Raging Bull, but also the antagonist. The usual villains of the boxing film (the femme fatale, the mobster, the crooked manager) are absent here. Even the mobsters Salvy and Tommy are portrayed as sympathetic characters that never act violently or even raise their voices, and so serve ... brother Charlie (Rod Steiger) for having made him throw an important fight for the benefit of the mob bosses: "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, i...

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