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Martin Scorsese's epic Raging Bull,doudoune moncler pas cher, which landed Robert DeNiro the Academy Award for best actor in 1981, is still considered a masterpiece. Cinderella Man got three Oscar nominations in 2006, two years after Million Dollar Baby nabbed golden statuettes for best picture, best director (Clint Eastwood), best actress (Hilary Swank) and supporting actor (Morgan Freeman).
"On some level,giubbotti moncler, America is hungry for a hero again, and the other thing I think is there's no whiners in boxing.
Passionate devotees


It creates this seemingly incongruous juxtaposition: Boxing has never been more popular on the big screen, and perhaps never less popular in real life.

The film about the hard-scrabble Boston-area boxer raked in more than $12 million (Dh44 million) its first full weekend, has been nominated for six Golden Globes and figures to be an Oscar darling when nominations are announced next month. Wahlberg and co-star Christian Bale even graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, which trumpeted the film as an instant classic.

Perhaps that is why boxing has been a formula for cinematic success.
Juxtaposition
"My thing is, every boxer that I've ever met has a story worth telling on the big screen or a book or television," Wahlberg said. "It takes a very special individual to choose boxing as a career, and usually the sport chooses them anyway, not having any alternatives."

Leight remembers how, when he was a kid, Ali and Joe Frazier brought boxing the same kind of attention that professional football and baseball have enjoyed. He equated the sport to jazz and theatre, which "have been dying for a hundred years" but still have passionate devotees.

The sport itself only wishes it could get the same kind of publicity.




"I don't know that boxing is coming back, but drama about boxing is coming back," said the show's executive producer, Warren Leight. "One of the reasons I found Lights Out a compelling project, the last few years everyone has been beaten up pretty badly, it's been a pretty rough time. I came in and thought this is a perfect metaphor for what we're all going through."
Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly star in a film called Real Steel that's scheduled for release in 2011. Produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, Jackman plays a washed-up fighter who promotes matches in the future in which boxers have been replaced by machines.
While boxing remains one of the great storytelling backdrops, with its inherent drama and truthful clichés about long odds and overcoming adversity, the sport continues to suffer.


Then there's the film that started it all, the original Rocky, which took home two Oscars in 1976 and is still spawning sequels. Sylvester Stallone's portrayal of the fictional fighter from Philadelphia even got him elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame this year.
"I guess my sense is,piumini moncler, you want to tell a story about people coming back and getting up after getting knocked down," Leight said. "The world of boxing,moncler sito ufficiale, it's a very tight-knit community,giubbotto moncler, and they're hoping these shows catch on. Maybe put a little spotlight on what they do."
On the small screen, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson stars in a reality show about his passion for pigeon racing on Animal Planet next year. And cable channel FX has filmed the first season of the drama Lights Out,moncler quincy, debuting in January, about a former heavyweight champion who struggles to find an identity and support his family outside the ring.

In the past year,air jordan, ESPN's groundbreaking 30 for 30 series featured a documentary about the 1980 fight between Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, and Frederick Wiseman earned rave reviews for a separate documentary called Boxing Gym that showed at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Thousands of movie-goers filled theatres across the US last weekend to see Mark Wahlberg's stirring portrayal of Micky Ward in The Fighter.



"Boxing is really kind of a pure sport. It's two guys, no team, no coach, and there's something elemental — a beauty — that works for drama.
"You've got a couple things happening,air jordan chaussure, you've got mixed martial arts and you've got no great heavyweight champion. You're going to need great boxers to bring people back to the sport," said Wahlberg, who first met Ward about two decades ago and has spent plenty of time with him at Arthur Ramalho's unpretentious West End Gym.
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