I took my dad to go see Cinderella Man for Fathers Day

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  1. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    I took my dad and mom out for lunch, then we went to see Cinderella Man. Holy smokes, what an excellent, inspiring movie!


    Take care,


    Abner :)
     
  2. little fauss

    little fauss New Member

    James Braddock had a great, up-by-the-bootstraps story. Although he wasn't exactly the most talented heavyweight to hold the title--why do you think the man who defeated him, Joe Louis, has pretty much overshadowed everyone else in his era?--he was about as close to "Rocky" as the sport has ever seen.

    One question: did they charicature Max Baer? I heard they made him out to be a man eater, cruel, driven by demons from a fight where he inadvertently killed a man. he did kill a man, but was deeply remorseful, and became a clown--not a killer--because of it. If they made him out to be a monster, it's slander. He was a fun-loving sweetheart of a guy, the father of "Jethro" from the Beverley Hillbillies, and there's some truth to the notion that Max Baer Junior was just playing the part of his mad-cap dad in his role on the show.
     
  3. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Movie

    Hey Little Fauss:

    Yeah, they did make Max Baer out to be a blood hungry killer. They did not explain the background of the guy he killed. In the movie, they said he killed two guys. I honestly did not know too much about Max Baer, so I did not know any better. I am glad to hear he was remorseful for having inadvertently killed a man, or men? Aside from that, it was a great movie. I got a sore throat from yelling out and shadow boxing at the same time, he he he!

    Take care,

    Abner
     
  4. little fauss

    little fauss New Member

    Re: Movie

    Thanks for the info, Abner. He really didn't kill two guys, he inadvertently killed one guy in the ring, and he fought another guy who was killed in the ring a few fights later by the big plodding Primo Carnera, a man who was among the worst ever to hold the heavyweight title. As an aside, my personal bottom three (that is, pre-modern era, where there are so many title-awarding organizations that any local yokel bum who doesn't hold at least two titles is laughed at by small children) are:
    1) Primo Carnera;
    2). Ingemar Johansson;
    3). Jess Willard

    Baer killed one guy in the ring, and it pretty much destroyed him emotionally; where Ron Howard got "he killed two guys" from that, I don't know. He was among the most talented fighters ever to hold the title, could have been the greatest fighter of his era, might even have given Joe Louis himself--my personal vote for greatest heavyweight of all time--a run for his money if only he'd trained harder and not been more concerned with acting and women than with the sweet science. But nonetheless, he had guts enough to put that big Star of David on his trunks--it was huge in real life, tiny in the movie--at a time when antisemitism was open and accepted, and he was a legitimate champion. He was the one who ended Carnera's reign. That's enough to put him on my good guy list.

    Anyway, thanks again, Abner! I'll have to see that one myself. I'll try to sit to myself so as not to accidently "shadow box" the guy in front of me.
     
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