Bleed for This got me thinking, why so many boxing movies with white protagonists?

[Roland Coltrane]

It's like they need Hollywood to explicitly spell it out for them like how The Chinese Government do with The Chinese film Industry.

nikka my post was just a rhetorical question

of course I already KNOW why, I just wanted to hear everybody else's thoughts on the matter

 

[Jazzy B.]

nikka my post was just a rhetorical question

of course I already KNOW why, I just wanted to hear everybody else's thoughts on the matter

That post you quoted wasn't even referring to you



It was referring to the "It's art" and "It's just a movie" types

 

[Roland Coltrane]

That post you quoted wasn't even referring to you



It was referring to the "It's art" and "It's just a movie" types

my bad

 

[TRIPLE M]

can we get that Jack Johnson movie tho?

its been done
Great White Hope with Jame Earl Jones, came out early 70s
and Pbs did a great documentary on him, Unforgivable Blackness

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

why do many boxing movies, period? i mean, christ, it's a genre in itself. every guy who ever had even a modicum of success probably has his life story optioned.

There have been like 5 good basketball movies, ever, yet 3 boxing movies come out every year. Also, Warrior ws the best fighting movie of the decade and i can't stand mma. don't argue with me.

Most boxing films are biopics or based on an event or person..plus it happens to bw that boxer's from the past and current have a story to tell..some sad, bad or controversial.

 

[Conz]

Most boxing films are biopics or based on an event or person..plus it happens to bw that boxer's from the past and current have a story to tell..some sad, bad or controversial.

understood, but most people in the public eye have a story to tell. ... let's just pick one at random. The Fighter. That was a solid movie, not shytting on it, probably 1 of 2 David O Russell movies I didn't hate... but did we NEED to see the story of Mickey Ward and his drug addict brother? Mickey Ward was known for what? 3 marathon fights with Arturo Gatti? (he's dead, i bet his biopic is coming soon.) I feel like Hollywood just wants the fighter, then finds the story after it. Something about being able to toss in a fight scene every 20 minutes fits some kind of lazy formula they love to use.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

understood, but most people in the public eye have a story to tell. ... let's just pick one at random. The Fighter. That was a solid movie, not shytting on it, probably 1 of 2 David O Russell movies I didn't hate... but did we NEED to see the story of Mickey Ward and his drug addict brother? Mickey Ward was known for what? 3 marathon fights with Arturo Gatti? (he's dead, i bet his biopic is coming soon.) I feel like Hollywood just wants the fighter, then finds the story after it. Something about being able to toss in a fight scene every 20 minutes fits some kind of lazy formula they love to use.

I understand your point clearly.. it gets tiresome.

 

[Conz]

to be fair, boxing movies and Mayweather/Pac are basically the only things keeping boxing afloat. who the hell talks about boxing in any other context?