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Distant Relatives: Raging Bull and The Social Network  Robert
here, with my series Distant Relatives, where we look at two
films, (one classic, one modern) related through theme and ask
what their similarities/differences can tell us about the
evolution of cinema.﻿  At what price greatness?  You may think,
at first glance, that the 2010 film that has the most in common
with 1980’s masterpiece Raging Bull is The Fighter. Yes they’re
both about boxing and boxers, but that’s practically where the
similarities end. As far as stories about misanthropes striving
to do something great while sabotaging their own relationships,
few come closer to Jake LaMotta than The Social Network’s Mark
Zuckerberg. One immediate simila