Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible (2000) (TV)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.7/10   

Scénariste:

Dave Anderson (writer)

Release Date:

17 août 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Sport

Plot:

A look at the events leading up to and including the legendary March 1971 bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier...

Plot Keywords:

Boxing Match | Boxing | Boxing Ring | Boxer | 1970s

Awards:

2 wins

Avis des utilisateurs:

One Helluva Documentary

Ensemble

Joe Frazier	...	Himself
Muhammad Ali	...	Himself (archive footage)
Liev Schreiber	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
David Brenner	...	Himself
Jim Brown	...	Himself
Alvin Cooperman	...	Himself
Stanley Crouch	...	Himself
Angelo Dundee	...	Himself
George Foreman	...	Himself
Marvis Frazier	...	Himself
Eddie Futch	...	Himself
Bryant Gumbel	...	Himself
Joe Hand	...	Himself
Thomas Hauser	...	Himself
Stanley R. Hochman	...	Himself
Jerry Izenberg	...	Himself
Mark Kram	...	Himself
Ron Kuby	...	Himself
Butch Lewis	...	Himself
Neal Marshall	...	Himself
Arthur Mercante	...	Himself
Larry Merchant	...	Himself
Jerry Perenchio	...	Himself
Richard Selzer	...	Himself (as Mr. Blackwell)
Bert Randolph Sugar	...	Himself (as Bert Sugar)
James Taylor	...	Himself
Ben Wett	...	Himself

Durée:

58 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Company:

HBO Sports

Anecdotes:

This features the only media interview Jerry Perenchio has given since 1981. Perenchio is notorious for refusing all interviews.

Movie Connections:

Features The Hate That Hate Produced (1959) (TV)

Soundtrack:

I Shall Be Free No. 10

One Helluva Documentary

This is one of the greatest documentaries I have ever seen. It perfectly discusses the events that led up to the first fight in the greatest rivalry in the history of boxing. The film also captures what the mood of the country at the time of the fight and how it was divided along racial, generational and socio-economic lines. The thing I really found fascinating was the fact that Ali would call Frazier an "Uncle Tom", due to the fact that Frazier was perceived as being the "good" black and Ali was perceived as being more militant. Frazier took that as a personal insult whereas Ali saw it as a way to promote the fight. Also, the coda at the end of the fight showing how even though the forces that Frazier allegedly represented (Nixon, conservatives and Frazier himself) wound up winning that night eventually wound up losing within a few years of that special night in March of 1971.