Text: Yuan Vivi (WeChat public account: self-beauty body)
The English name of "Iron Fist Man" is actually "cinderella man". It is a true and legendary story of boxer James J. Braddock, created by the original film production team of "A Beautiful Mind", who went from a slump to a thriving boxing career during the Great Depression in the United States.
The story takes place during the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s. James was once a professional boxer with an unbeaten record of 80 games. When he suffered an accident, he suffered multiple fractures in his right hand and was stripped of his boxing license and retired from his career. After several years of the Great Depression, James had to go to the docks every day to wait to be picked up and do temporary work, like other men who earned a living by labor. But life is still so difficult that there is no money to pay for electric heating and buy milk for young children.
"I was cut off from heating and electricity and the children were sent to someone else's house to raise. Now there is no job at hand, and the dock is not recruited every day. Just now I went to collect the state relief money, here are 19 yuan, I still have 18.38 to make up for the arrears and get back my children. You all know who I am, and if I had any other means, I wouldn't have opened my mouth to you. If you can help me, I will be grateful. ”"i'll be very grateful." At the boxing club, James finished speaking to his agents, and the men around him were silent for the once undefeated boxer. With a loud cry good Luck's generosity, coins and change bills were put into james's hat one by one. Between the crowds, he saw Joe, the former agent.
The four eyes were relatively speechless, and across the crowd, both of them had tears in their eyes.
At this moment, facing old friends, my heart is full of mixed feelings.
James said "im sorry, joe" in an inaudible voice almost in shame, and he couldn't utter the next full sentence.
“what the hell are you actually sorry for？！” Joe asked rhetorically. "Why apologize? There's nothing to apologize for. ”
Is it for fate? Because of the Great Depression? Because the child was sent away? Can't pay for electricity and heating? Because you are also short of money after receiving state relief, you have to seek financial support in public to make up for the costs you owe?
Because I once promised my child when I stole something from the food store and returned it, "I will never send you away." You will always be at home. I promise you. ”
Yes, it's because of this commitment as a father.
This is also the core concept that "Iron Fist Man" conveys to the audience - a firm belief in love.
One film critic said, "Looking at the whole history of boxing, you will find that no one's story will be better than James's. Bradek's is even more legendary. During the Great Depression in the United States, the declining economic conditions and the soaring unemployment rate hit all the American people, and society was immersed in the double depression of the economy and mood, and it was at this time that a folk hero, the most legendary and most exciting, was called "cinderella man" boxer James. Bradek, with his own actions, proves that only with confidence and hard work can we win a turnaround for ourselves and our families. ”
His beloved wife, Mae, has never complained about him, but her heart is very uneasy and frightened to hear that her husband will once again return to the boxing ring facing danger. Almost angrily, Mae approached Joe and asked him why he had dragged her husband back into the world of professional boxing. But when the door of Joe's luxury apartment opened, Mei was shocked to find that the apartment was already surrounded by walls and empty. It turned out that in order to get James to return to the field for training, Joe dropped all the valuable things in the family to advance James's training money.
"Sometimes you have an intuition about what you're going to see from the game.
You don't even know if all this is true, but you'll pin your hopes on him. ”
Mae was silent in the face of the great support poured out of her friends who knew her husband.
James successfully returned to the boxing arena and triumphantly reached the final of the duel with the top boxing champion Max. The story develops to this point, and the audience sees the difficulties he has made along the way. The physical pain, the pressure of life, the interruption of her career, and the fear and fear of facing the boxer who has killed people in the boxing ring twice, the wife. At a press conference, he was asked why he chose to make a comeback, and James simply said "for the milk"
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After reaching the final, James went to return the government relief money as much as possible, and when asked by the reporter, he simply said, "I believe in my country, can lead us out of the predicament, and I am confident in our future life." The sentence came out of the mouth of a downcast boxer, real, with a thousand pounds of weight.
James's seemingly disparate power struggle with the Boxer is just a very simple reason to live.
At the dinner on the eve of the showdown, James and his party meet the boxer Max in a restaurant. Max constantly provokes James with words and speaks ill of Mae, and Mary unceremoniously spills wine on him. Max didn't let go of it at all, "Hey, you see, now this guy is going to rely on his wife to shoot." James stopped what he was going to walk, looked back, smiled calmly, and said, "Yeah, she's great, isn't she?" ”
The next day, James said goodbye before getting into the car, and his wife did not say a word. Without even saying a word of parting to James, he hurried away with the children. The director's arrangement of pictures at this time and the low background music make the whole pre-game atmosphere extremely depressing. James needs to have an account of his life, but his wife Mae is nervous about the safety of his life and only wants him to be safe.
Before going on the field, Mae came to the church to pray for her husband, only to find that so many civilians gathered here were praying for their boxing heroes. Eventually she showed up in James's lounge. At this moment, the couple meets before the game. He may be in a mixed mood, his wife is still nervous, "Maybe I'm starting to understand now why you're on the field punching." You just have to remember who you are. You are everyone's hope, the hero of the children, the champion of my heart. ”
Looking at the tears in his wife's eyes, James pretended to be relaxed and said, "A beautiful girl like you, it is best to go home and wait." There are so many boxers hanging around here, you certainly don't want to be pestered by them. Mae burst out laughing. This moment is undoubtedly a warm moment in the whole film.
The final game scene can be described as "moving".
The result of the game? Go to the movie and find out.
The answer is in the plot.
From his performance, the audience can feel the principle of doing things conveyed by the character: never complain, have strength but do not abuse, and be passionate but can restrain themselves.
This is undoubtedly the most attractive to the audience, and there is a sense of substitution in the movie.
At this moment suddenly remembered bob dylan's lyrics "how many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man? ”
Or Hemingway's "A man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated." ”
In that social environment, life never seems to have a smooth day.
It's just that we expect that the difficulties at any time, sweet and sour, bitter and spicy will not knock the protagonist down.
In the end, when we return to life, we still have to rely on our own efforts and stick to our own beliefs.
The iron fist is a belief and a responsibility.
Beliefs and responsibilities are often invincible.
"Wait for me to come back at home."
bring home with title and turtles。
see you at home，baby。