Ron Howards film Cinderella man centers around an up and coming boxer named James J. Braddock who is following the American Dream during the Great Depression. The movie begins by painting Braddock as a star riding on cloud 9. He has wads of cash sitting on the dresser, a beautiful wife, healthy kids, and a house in a nice neighborhood. The bulldog of Bergen, as he is called in the ring, is on the cusp of being a world champion. Then without any immediate explanation James is destitute. He is living paycheck by paycheck to just keep his house running. Boxing helps to fill in the gaps but when he breaks his hand all is gone. He cant pay his bills and his wife sends the kids away to her parents. This leads to one of the defining moments of the movie. James J. Braddock the once proud fighter has to go to his old bosses and beg at their door for money. On top of that he gets on welfare just so his children can come home to a house with heat. After months of not being able to fight he is given one last chance. A series a wins later the bulldog finds himself in the ring for the championship. He defeats the reigning champion by unanimous decision. The winnings from the fight stabilize his family’s financial status for the rest of their lives. …show more content…
The movie as a whole has a fairly predictable plot which is unpredictable until it is over.
That sounds like an oxymoron but it is really a compliment to the film. The story can almost be explained simply by viewing the title and knowing it is about boxing. However it is easy to get so wrapped up in the individual parts of the characters lives there isn’t time to stop and think about the fact that what will happen next is obvious. The underdog boxer, or athlete, wins the title and it impacts his life and those around him. That movie has been made multiple times but it’s done so well that the recognizable plot line is masked. That is the best aspect of the movie as there are so many movies that fail at the attempt to remake a common
story. The ideas of the American dream and working harder are prevalent in both Cinderella Man and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Jurgis and James both have been placed in times of financial hardship and both of their driving motives are their families. They fight to keep food on the table and for a home. They want the lives of their children to be better than the ones they have. The American Dream is the idea that if you work hard enough it can be yours. In both stories the American Dream is just out of reach. In the end of Cinderella Man, Braddock and his family make it out of their hard times alive. That can not yet be said for Jurgis and his family.
The Cinderella Man In the movie the Cinderella man who is called James jay Braddock and he is a fighter and in his first fight he broke his hand and had a cast on for 6-8 weeks when he broke his hand the second time he got deregisted from the boxing industry until his hand was healed he could get back into the boxing industry so he could fight again and he fights to keep his family out of poverty. At the start of the movie he was fighting a boxer and he won a lot of money and then in a week or two he had no money left to feed his wife and children and he suffered in the great depression badly cause it was hard to get a job to earn money to get food for his family and one of his kids got sick so he went down to the docks to get work to earn Money
The film Cinderella Man focuses on the main character, James Braddock, an ex-boxer, who loses his job due to the Great Depression.
The Great Depression of the 1930’s caused widespread poverty, but the popular culture of the time did not reflect this. People wanted to escape from this harsh time so movies, dancing and sports became very popular. Radios broadcasted boxing matches and boxers became stars. The heavyweight champion James J. Braddock aka “Cinderella Man,” gained popularity. James Braddock gained fame by winning many fights and proving everyone wrong when they said he was too old and couldn’t win.
..., and many times in literature such as in Golden Boy, both the play and movie, athletes perform for the hope to be recognized by their coach. The drive for an athlete to succeed is affected by the player’s relationship with their coach. For Rosie, Peter was a handsome coach she was attracted to, but wasn’t always there when she needed him. Because Rosie was looking for more attention, she invested herself into Luther who became a second “coach” and took his advice to improve her skills. In Golden Boy, Joe Bonaparte proved he could fight having no prior experience as a professional boxer. Joe had the motivation and the will-power to gain attention from the doubtful Tom Moody and proved himself a true fighter knocking a man dead. Rosie and Joe both wanted a chance to succeed in their athletic careers and their relationships with their coaches enhanced the opportunity.
The way Mailer paces the piece also aids in carrying the message that boxing is inhuman and uncivilized. The entire fight seems to go on for hours and Mailer uses a series of comparisons and similes to describe every minute gritty detail of the fight, it feels like the fight was 45 minutes rather than 45 seconds. The actual death of Benny Paret almost feels as if his death is an afterthought, that it wasn’t the paramount part of the fight, but rather the hypnotizing and engrossing fight that just consumed this large audience.
initially it was the downfall of the stock market. Many social and economical conditions worsened as the depression progressed. The unity of the Braddock family was displayed as strong and determined. The title Cinderella Man is true toward Jim Braddock because he came from a rundown apartment to a champion boxer. His twist of fate is a “Cinderella story” because he came from nothing in the depression but with strive to give for his family made him a champion. Nothing is more important than family and love which is portrayed by the Braddock family.
Over a long period of time, an individual’s social status has always had a great impact on relationships between others. Relationships such as friendship, romance and even family relationships are greatly influenced by one’s social status. When people value social status to the utmost importance, it often acts as a barrier to further solidify relations with others. “Wuthering Heights” is a classic novel written by Emily Bronte which illustrates how social status gets in the way of relationships. This story (set in eighteen hundreds) displays the true nature of the people at that time because they excessive had pride. Since they had excessive pride, they often judged people based on their social class; hence changing their relationship between each other. In this novel social class was measured by observing an individual’s wealth, appearance and manners. Heathcliff happens to be the male lead character of this story that lacks social class due to his rebellious relationship with Hindley. Afterwards, Hindley degrades Heathcliff’s status this affects his connections with Catherine and Nelly. Since Heathcliff’s status diminishes, Catherine becomes reluctant to continue her affair with Heathcliff. Nelly also becomes wary of Heathcliff because his personality changes after restoring his own status. Thus, it is clearly seen that social class has an impact on the story by altering Heathcliff’s relationship between Hindley, Catherine and Nelly.
Cinderella Man takes place during the Great Depression. James Braddock, who truly is a family man, will do anything to both support and feed his kids. James and his family are first doing very well off when his boxing career is flourishing. James is supporting his family through his boxing because he cannot get a job at the dock. Jame’s wife really hates how James is putting himself in this position in order for his kids to eat and stay warm, but without his winnings from boxing, they would be hungry and cold. The only reason he boxes is because when the economy is dropping dramastically, many businesses are forced to cut people off from working due to the demand for most products to be dropping. James, just like many people
The Grimm’s stories have strict criteria for good and evil. Good women are not the hero, they do not plan, nor do they get themselves out of bad situations; they are obtuse and wait until a Prince saves them. These qualities doom the female protagonists (and readers) to pursue the only destiny women have, and that is to be a wife and mother (Rowe, 1978). Cinderella is the heroine and the ideal good girl. She is unambiguously beautiful, kind, and compassionate. She does not complain or get angry. This is foreseen early in the Grimm’s Cinderella story:
The main theme of the movie is the boxing career of Maggie Fitzgerald (played by Hilary Swank) - a 30-year old waitress who lives alone and barely gets by. However, she is strongly determined to become a professional boxer and this is why she seeks the help of Frankie Dunn (played by Clint Eastwood), a boxing trainer and an owner of a gym. Initially, Frankie is unwilling to train her because she is female and too old to have any chance of achieving significant accomplishments in professional boxing. However, Frankie’s friend and associate Eddie Dupris (played by Morgan Freeman), really believes in Maggie and lets her train in a corner of the gym. As time passes, Maggie’s persistence and Eddie’s pushiness finally change Frankie’s mind. This is when the true story begins. Maggie’s determination and strong will to fulfill her dream, combined with Frankie’s excellent training skills launch both of them into the professional boxing orbit where they gloriously win battle after battle.
In 2009 Chimamanda Adichie gave a TED talk about the ‘danger of a single story’. A single story meaning, one thought or one example of a person becoming what we think about all people that fit that description, a stereotype if you will. In today’s America, I believe that we have all felt the wave of stereotypical views at some point or another. Adichie gives many relatable examples throughout her life of how she has been affected by the single story. Her story brings about an issue that all humans, from every inch of the earth, have come to understand on some level. A young child reading only foreign books, a domestic helper that she only perceived as poor. Her college roommates single story about Africans and her own formation of a single
Essay on Themes Pride and Prejudice. In this novel, the title describes the underlying theme of the book. Pride and prejudice were both influences on the characters and their relationships. The.
When adapting a novel, there are three different ways directors can translate that into a film. They may take on the literal, traditional or radical interpretation of their adaptation of the novel; in Joe Wright’s 2005 Pride and Prejudice, he takes on the traditional interpretation. This translation demonstrates the same ideas, central conflicts, and characters as those of Austen’s novel 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice. Linda Costanzo Cahir, the author of Literature into Film, gives sufficient evidence to prove that this adaptation is in fact a traditional one.
221B Baker Street, is where a well-known detective resides. Sherlock Holmes, born in 1854, started his career as a private eye after college when a colleague’s father inspired him to do so. He worked alone for a number of years employing agents and using informants. Later on, he accepted a roommate Dr. Watson. Eventually, they become good friends and crime solving partners. Sherlock Holmes was not only an influential and respected detective, as well as, a good friend, but also a well-read fictional character in British literature.
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