And though the Copacabana sound was never adjusted, anyone claiming to dislike 'Raging Bull' because of the Cutty Sark line deserves a LaMotta-sized punch to the breadbasket. Scorsese finally relented, but not before threatening to take his name off the picture. Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta 's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story. Scorsese claimed he could not hear an extra's line ordering 'a Cutty Sark and water' in the Copacabana scene. After nearly a year of sound mixing, United Artists told the director they needed the prints for the film's opening the following week.

Scorsese's obsession with detail almost cost him the entire film. It is an exercise in using extrinsic techniques to tell a story on a psychological level. 'Raging Bull' ostensibly turns the subject of boxing into the battle occurring inside one man's head. In answering that question, Scorsese decided to never leave the ring when filming the fight scenes, leaving LaMotta's experience to become the viewer's sensibility. 'And what if the interpretation of the fight is subjective it's what the fighter sees or what he hears? How he perceives sound, image, physicality and everything you can think of.'

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