影片對白 You're living in my house. You're going to town on yourself in my living room. And now you're moving in on my wife.

 

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Jake LaMotta 世界中量級拳擊冠軍

Jake LaMotta 是著名拳擊選手，曾因為懷疑自己的兄弟和自己的妻子有染，而對兄弟拳腳相加。Dupree這里是做個比喻說法，意即“我和Carl你是兄弟，你竟然像Jake LaMotta那樣懷疑我和你老婆”。

Giacobbe La Motta (born July 10, 1921), better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former boxer who was world middleweight champion and whose life has been as controversial outside the ring as it was inside it. He was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the biopic Raging Bull.

LaMotta won the world title in 1949 in Detroit against Frenchman Marcel Cerdan, who was the world champion. Cerdan, called by many boxing critics the greatest champion ever from France, dislocated his arm in the first round and gave up before the start of the tenth, the official scoring being LaMotta winner by a knockout in ten because the bell had already rung to begin that round when Cerdan announced he was quitting. A rematch was arranged, but while Cerdan was flying back to the United States to fight the rematch, his Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed at the Azores, killing everyone on board. LaMotta met two challengers (Tiberio Mitri and Laurent Dauthuille) and beat them, and then he was challenged by Robinson on their rivalry's sixth fight. Held on February 14, 1951, the fight became known as boxing's version of The St. Valentine's Day Massacre（情人節大屠殺）. Robinson won by a technical knockout in the thirteenth round, when the fight was stopped with LaMotta lying on the ropes. In 1960, LaMotta shocked the sports world when he was called to testify before a US Senate sub-committee that was looking at underworld influence on the boxing game. LaMotta said that he had thrown his 1947 fight with Billy Fox in exchange for a later title shot against Cerdan. While this admission affected his reputation, LaMotta still believed that it was worthwhile.

In the mid-1940s LaMotta suffered from a boxing injury and took time off to recover. He was always interested in baseball and decided to form the Jake LaMotta All-Star team. They played in Sterling Oval which was located between 165th and 164th Street between Clay and Teller Avenue in the Bronx. All of his Bronx friends came to the game. He also held professional fights at that field and his brother Joey often fought there. His wife Vikki was a very successful ticket seller because she was so young and pretty.

Nearing 1980, Hollywood executives approached LaMotta with the idea of a movie about his life, based on LaMotta's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story. The film, Raging Bull, was initially only a minor box office success, but eventually became a huge critical success both for director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro, who gained about 60 pounds (27 kg) during the shooting of the film, to play the older, corpulent, broken-down LaMotta in the scenes of LaMotta's later life. De Niro received an Oscar for his portrayal.

The movie depicted a violent and problematic LaMotta who once even went as far as beating his own brother, manager Joey LaMotta, accusing him of having an affair with his (Jake's) then wife, Vikki LaMotta.

In a 2000 interview, LaMotta recalled that after attending the premiere of Raging Bull with his by then ex-wife (the two had divorced in bitterness in the 1950s), he told her he could not believe he was that bad and apologized. Vikki replied: "Honey, you were worse." (answers.com)

考考你

將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. 警察控制了這伙人。

2. 影評界把他最新的電影數落個夠。

3. 他的幾個同伙準備對我下手了。

You, me and Dupree《同居三人行》精講之五 考考你 參考答案

1. 這件事無論如何不能拖延。

The work must not be hung up for any reason.

2. 我沒有想到向他要身份證。

It didn't occur to me to ask him for proof of his identity.

 

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