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Raging Bull (1980)

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• Continuity: Early on in the movie, there is a scene where Jake tells Joey to punch him. Joey does so, repeatedly, and leaves his ring on thereby cutting Jake with each new punch. Yet right before he throws the last punch, all of the puncture wounds in Jake's forehead have been removed.
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the film when Jake is leaning out of a back window, shouting, he is leaning right out of the window when viewed from outside, but is hardly leaning out at all when viewed from inside.
  
  
• Continuity: Ring announcer's glasses in opening match.
  
  

• Continuity: During the opening fight between La Motta and Jimmy Reeves, La Motta punches Reeves' mouth-guard out, then a second later when he is still punching him the mouth-guard is back in his mouth.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jake is in the phone booth towards the end of the movie saying that he wouldn't be able to raise the $10,000 that he needed, his lips aren't moving.
  
  
• Continuity: When Joey and Salvy are told to shake hands (after the fight), their hands are interlocked in one shot, but in the next, they are back in their respective laps.
  
  
• Factual errors: Joey and Jake attend a dance that occurs on Saturday, 6 August 1941. In 1941, August 6 was actually a Wednesday.
  
  
• Continuity: When LaMotta is sitting by the TV arguing with Joey, the bunny ears on the TV change positions between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Jake hurries to the bathroom after pouring ice water down his shorts, the top of a crewmember's head appears briefly in the lower left-hand side of the screen. (This may be peculiar to the 1988 MGM/UA videotape version.)
  
  
• Continuity: when Jake is in the bathroom pouring ice water down his pants, the bruise on his eye has disappeared
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A rubber tube, to carry fake blood, is visible behind Janiro's nose as Jake punches it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Vickie is sitting in the car outside Jake's club, telling him she's divorcing him, Jake, standing outside the car, puts a lit cigar in his mouth. The shot immediately switches to a point-of-view from inside the car, and Jake's mouth is empty. He then puts an unlit cigar in his mouth. The POV changes to back outside the car, then back to inside the car. Now Jake's cigar is lit, although he never lit it.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Jake follows his brother into the parking garage, hip-hop-style graffiti is visible outside it.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jake and Joey are sitting at the kitchen table, Jake tells Joey to grab a towel to hit him. When Joey picks it up Jake says "Now wrap it around your hand," but the first half of the sentence seen from behind Jake focusing on Joey, Jake's mouth is not moving.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the Entrance to the Last Fight as Jake makes his way to the ring you can hear the ring announcer but as Jake passes the bottom of the ring the announcer has his hand by his side holding the microphone, therefore not able to be broadcasting.
  
  

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