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Nov 18, 2016 · Too many boxing films downplay the fragility of the body, unless a hero is being warned that if he keeps fighting, he’ll go blind or suffer brain damage (he always disregards the warning and wins anyway).
Nov 18, 2016 · Over the course of 12 rounds, a boxer has endured the full spectrum of emotion; each punch and blow to the body retracing a life story, mending a broken past, all of it mediated by an...
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May 16, 2024 · But while the best boxing movies are unmissable, it’s increasingly hard to justify the sport’s existence at all. Paying people to hurt each other is unconscionable and watching the process ...
Conflicts around bodily deterioration that are central to the boxing film genre (Grindon, Knockout) are therefore played out in relation to Frankie’s/Eastwood’s body (Modleski; Woodward) and the boxing sequences can be read as a corporeal dramatisation of his ageing and troubled masculinity.
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- Raging Bull (1980) Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci. Biography, Drama, Sport (2h 9m) 8.1 on IMDb — 93% on RT.
- Rocky (1976) Directed by John G. Avildsen. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young. Drama, Sport (2h) 8.1 on IMDb — 92% on RT. Even people who've never seen a single boxing movie have still heard of Rocky.
- Southpaw (2015) Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence. Action, Crime, Drama (2h 4m) 7.3 on IMDb — 60% on RT. Calling all Jake Gyllenhaal fans!
- Snatch (2000) Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham. Comedy, Crime (1h 42m) 8.2 on IMDb — 74% on RT. At first glance, you might mistake Snatch for a gangster film—and it certainly is, as is true of most Guy Ritchie movies.
Like Robert Warshow’s gangster, the boxer is a tragic figure; he personifies a division between body and spirit, and since time dictates the deterioration of the flesh, he is destined for a fall (Warshow 1975). The reason for, and purpose of, suffering arise as questions central to the genre.
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Oct 5, 2024 · If ever a movie scene can be said to convey the ambiguity and misplaced optimism that courses through the sport and business of boxing, it's that one.
