Million Dollar Baby Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s latest movie as a director has been getting more and more positive reviews recently and it is even better than Mystic River. At first glance, the film looks like another boxing-movie cliché. However, Eastwood has succeeded in creating a compelling and moving story about the intricate world of human relationships, the price of success and the realization of dreams. The movie explores many different subject matters. Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood, is a film exploring how ones success is not guaranteed by victory. Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) struggles to grasp the concept of training an aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) as he is going through hardships which are setting him back. Clint Eastwood implements the use of cinematography techniques to symbolically convey the true meaning of success where winning is not a measurement, instead the hard work you put in and risking your shot
award-winning film ‘Million Dollar Baby’ the director, Clint Eastwood, uses many significant scenes throughout the film such as the final fight scene ‘dirty fight’ to present themes and ideas to the audience, Clint Eastwood uses the four aspects of camera work, sound, dialogue and lighting. To do this, Clint Eastwood utilizes a variety of important film techniques to present these ideas, which help to create emotion and craft the scene. One of the most important scenes in ‘Million Dollar Baby’ which uses
Supriya Singh Manisha Sinha NTCC A STUDY OF GENDER AND SPORTS IN MILLION DOLLAR BABY Million Dollar Baby is story about fighters/warriors who fought both in the boxing ring as well as in their life. This book is made up of of short stories that defines the struggle of his life and the struggles of people around him.. Although it is about boxing, focus of each story is not the sport, but everything that is going on around him, like training, privacy, private struggle, ups and downs of talented young
“Million Dollar Baby” directed by Clint Eastwood, is a film that shows the life of female boxer by the name of Maggie Fitzgerald. Maggie is an aspiring boxer, and she is gambling whatever she has left in her passion. Clint Eastwood is shows the hard work Maggie and that her success can be implicated in life in a good or bad way. Eastwood emphasises these moments Maggie partakes through cinematography techniques such as camera angles, characterisation and the uses of light. These techniques are used
Million Dollar Baby is a very inspirational movie. In the movie a woman named Maggie works as a diner waitress. Maggie was practically poor. She would take home the food her customers had not finished eating. She didn’t have enough money for food. She goes to a gym to train in boxing. Frankie the owner and trainer told her that he does not train girls. She was very persistent and started getting training from Frankie. Frankie made her rich and famous. Maggie bought a house for her ungrateful hillbilly
Abstract This film review will discuss Clint Eastwood’s 2004 movie Million Dollar Baby. Like a deluxe restaurant meal, veteran movie director and lead actor Eastwood carefully selected unique, high-quality ingredients for the script and co-actors, and skilled chefs – i.e. film artisans - to plan and create something exceptional. The final result leaves a subtle, distinct and memorable flavor. A Million Dollar Baby (MDB) film reviewer suggests that Eastwood’s “touch only gets lighter with
Rudy, directed by David Anspaugh and Maggie Fitz from Million dollar baby, directed by Clint Eastwood, show us the importance of dedication and determination in the pursuit of dreams and goals, while fighting against all odds and difficulties. One can compare the two movies in terms of family relationship, in terms of getting ostracized due to their gender and physicality, and in terms of economic problems. In the movie, Million Dollar Baby shows that having faith and being self-confident can lead
Mice and Men/ Million Dollar Baby Essay In the book Of Mice and Men By: John Steinbeck, it gave us a lot of life lesson to learn about and a lot for us to think about. Also in the movie Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood have a lot of similarities to Of Mice and Men. Some similarities are that they have some of the same themes like loneliness and poverty and have characters are have the same traits like Lennie and Maggie also, Frankie and George. Maggie in Million Dollar Baby has a large
The movie that will be examined in this critical film review is Million Dollar Baby. Million Dollar Baby was set back in time with a girl wanting to fit but the trainer did not want to train her. In the beginning of the movie, Frankie the trainer did not want to teach her how to fight because he does not train girls. As the movie progresses, Eddie “scrap”, a back in the day amazing fighter was able to convince Frankie to take Maggie and train her to be the best. When Frankie starts to train Maggie
seems to be that you are open to all types of movies. The film I would like to introduce you to is called Million Dollar Baby. It is a sports drama film. This film was nominated for 48 different awards. Actors include Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Hilary Swank. Hopefully, these are some reasons to intrigue your interest. You do not need to be a fan of boxing to enjoy Million Dollar Baby. There is a deeper meaning to this movie like realizing that one always has a place in someone’s heart. Out
closer look at Maggie’s relationship with Frankie reveals that Maggie’s only purpose in the film was to be the daughter Frankie lost so that he could redeem himself by being a good father. Instead of portraying an empowered female athlete, Million Dollar Baby reduces Maggie to a tool in Frankie’s redemption of masculinity. As Hannah Hamad explains, “Postfeminist fatherhood is the new hegemonic masculinity.” Frankie’s aging masculinity is thus reversed by his paternal redemption. From the beginning
Three major negative female stereotypes are presented in Million Dollar Baby. The first is the innocent girl next door, whom, “Like the ideal woman, seeks the protection of a strong man” and “tries her damndest to please him,” (Krupat). The narrator introduces Maggie as a struggling woman who “grew up knowing one thing: she was trash,” (Million Dollar Baby). She wears baggy clothing, her hair is a mess, and for dinner she eats the scraps she picks up from her job as a waitress. Her naiveté due to
obtain our dream, and how our dream changes us. This is evident in our learning of dreams and aspirations through the texts Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? by Lasse Hallström, and through my own studies of Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood. These three highly acclaimed texts represent the same ideas on dreams and aspirations, which can be defined as hope, desire or the longing for a condition or achievement, but these texts express the same ideas differently
We arrive into this world without a choice; and depart just the same. In the movie “Million Dollar Baby”, Maggie Fitzgerald’s fictional character is a prime example active euthanasia. Maggie’s decision to die is morally acceptable, but it is not ethically acceptable by philosopher James Rachels’ argument. Maggie’s decision was not ethically permissible because she violated Kant’s categorical imperative “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any
Things that unknowingly remind her of the past cause her to shift personalities. In the first shift we see as an audience, Frankie steps on a baby doll rattle. She picks up the doll and begins to hear a baby’s cry. She walks over to the crib in the room to see that there is no baby there. She shifts into Alice, who is an white southern women with extreme racism who says, “Frankie is not here.” We later learn through hypnosis that Frankie is suppressing memories
Gonsalves tries to support his argument of Million Dollar Baby being a bad film by stating that it is dark, gloomy, and about death. However, this is a huge exaggeration. The film is an inspirational story about a rookie boxer who rises against all odds. The story takes a dark turn during the crisis of the film, but that is less than ¼ of the movie. He also argues that Million Dollar Baby is a bad movie because the script is not complex and it is generic. Although the film may be generic at some
After watching all three films Million Dollar Baby, In a world…, and The other Boleyn Girl my first impression was that these three movies had multiple things in common between one another. These movies showed the mere fact how women were treated unfairly based on their gender. Women weren’t seen fit as good enough compared to men to be accomplished and powerful. The movie Million Dollar Baby and In a World were more in common with each other because it shows how women are pursuing a passion they
Keyed Draft - Comparison Essay The book Of Mice and Men and Million Dollar Baby both show that though it is a hard and rough world it still brings the characters to shine. The men are tough, but the girls and even tougher, although the ranch life is not easy curley's wife still manages to talk a few times. Maggie has not given up trying to be trained by Frankie, and she will not stop until he trains her. One of the tough settings is the man's world setting. In the novelette curley's wife fights
In this essay I will show differences and similarities to euthanasia in the movie Million Dollar Baby which we watched and the book Stuck in Neutral witch we read. Like how the two main characters Maggie from the movie and Shawn from the book are similar and different to the idea of death and euthanasia. And finally euthanasia to each of them and how it affects everyone around them. Shawn is a 14 year old with cerebral palsy and can't speak, move, or eat without help. Maggie is in her 30’s and