To preserve enough energy for a forthcoming fight (again with Robinson), Jake walks away from Vickie and pours cold water on his erection to suppress his sexual desire. Vickie begins kissing Jake's bruises lingering from the Robinson fight, and Jake becomes sexually aroused. After the fight, it becomes clear that Jake and Vickie are an official couple. Jake hands future legend Sugar Ray Robinson his first professional loss, thus launching what will become the greatest middleweight rivalry of the 1940s. They soon kiss in front of a photograph of Jake and Joey.ġ943. After a game of miniature golf cut short by the disappearance of a ball, Jake takes her to his father's apartment.
Impressed by Jake's convertible, Vickie agrees to go on a date with him. Jake thus sets his sights on the teenager the very next day, he gets Joey to introduce him to Vickie. Jake asks Joey if Vickie is in a sexual relationship with anyone, and Joey responds that nobody goes with her because she’s just fifteen. Jake and Joey are at the neighborhood public swimming pool where Salvy and his cohorts hit on a beautiful, young blonde name Vickie. Jake then abruptly provokes his brother into hitting him in the face as hard as he can, bare-fisted. Soon afterward, Joey enters Jake's apartment, and Jake laments over his small hands and complains that his middleweight physique prevents him from fighting heavyweight greats like Joe Louis. The argument ends with his upending the entire kitchen table. He gets into a heated argument with his wife over his steak not being cooked to his precise specification. Meanwhile, we see Jake revealing that his violent behavior is not restricted to the ring. Joey lets Salvy know that he already knows this. Salvy tries once again to convince Joey that Jake can never get a shot at the title without playing ball with Tommy, a situation Jake refuses to consider. After returning to New York City, Joey walks down the sidewalk with Salvy Batts, a mafia thug working under Tommy Como, the undisputed mob controller of the boxing industry in New York. Unfortunately, it is too little too late as the bell rings and-even though Reeves is physically removed from the ring-Jake suffers his first professional defeat. At the profane urging of his brother and manager Joey, Jake seems suddenly to wake from a somnambulistic dream state and gives his opponent Jimmy Reeves a pummeling. Jake is a svelte, muscular boxer in danger of losing a fight against Jimmy Reeves. The rehearsal ends with the repetition of the phrase “That’s entertainment.”ġ941. He recites Shakespearean monologues and recollects on his boxing career. After a stunning opening credit sequence, Raging Bull opens with Jake LaMotta rehearsing his “act” in the dressing room of a nightclub.
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