What I love about Raging Bull is its realistic dialogue (such as in the early scene where we see Joe Pesci walking down the street with the other guy toward the apartment) and its great LOOK: it really looks like it was filmed in the Forties. The way they made the girl (whose name slips my mind at the moment) actually look the way women looked back then is amazing. It's something you rarely see in movies. Characters in a period movie, especially the women, tend to appear as they do now except that they're wearing old clothes. Of course, De Niro is terrific, especially the way he transforms himself (he gorged himself on pasta and ice cream) as LaMotta gets older and fatter.