Robert and deniro and biography pdf
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Robert De Niro, a famous actor, was born in New York City on August 17, 1943. He began acting at a young age and continued to pursue his passion by studying at prestigious acting schools. De Niro’s breakthrough came with the movie “Bang the Drum Slowly” in 1973, where he showcased his talent as a baseball player with a terminal illness. He gained further recognition for his role as Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver” and as Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull,” for which
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Robert De Niro's Raging Bull: The History of a Performance and a Performance of History
THE HISTORY OF A PERFORMANCE: FROM NOVEL TO SCREEN
According to the Harry Ransom Center's website, the "collection includes more than 1,300 boxes of papers, film, movie props and costumes." The Raging Bull File alone includes ten revisions of the script, research materials, correspondence between De Niro and other key figures on the production, and, importantly, the actor's hand-written notes in the margins of all of these materials. Inspection of the files demonstrates that the actor is an active collaborator, avid researcher, and consummate perfectionist. The long numbered lists which accompany the actor's personal scripts-containing character insights and revisions to dialogue-present a comprehensive portrait of the actor's career writ large, the likes of which would take years to sufficiently catalogue. Regardless, the Raging Bull file provides insight into De Niro's acting process in addition to his unique relationship with Martin Scorsese. The experience of going through these files is less like doing your own research than reading through a historian's already collected materials as the various boxes present a clear, chronological thread that i