Anthony Quinn plays a sad husk of man who has no direction of life after he is forced to retire from boxing.
He is kind of like Brando in On The Waterfront's cab scene where he talks about being ranked #5 in the world in a touted division at the time, but that's all he has the past. He tries applying for jobs but gets rejected until he meets. Grace miller who sees the potential in mountain past all the boxing and the slurred speech she tries to help guide the man, but Mountain's loyalty to his corrupt manager just holds him back in life.
Mountain seeks the wrestling ring which is similar to the boxing ring, but with less hits and damage. Mountain will have to humilate himself for this job and he refuses to do it until he finds out it will save his friend from possibly death.
This movie is a hopelessness similar to Aronofsky's The Wrestler. Mountain and Randy The Ram have no escape from the professions and the people around them. The things they have made a career out of own them no matter if they try to leave or not.
The film ends similarly to 2008's Wrestler with Mountain stepping into the ring for his wrestling match similar to how Randy has his "last match". The parallels between these films also have to do with both of these professions wrestling and boxing both are vicious and body harming sports and you have to be at the top if you want to succeed, but the enjoyment is so fufilling that it gets people to stay and it consumes them past their worth and value to the game.
The Rod Serling did a great job at packing a punch with this one. This and Fat City are very similar and it's fitting I watched them Back to Back.
Anthony Quinn plays a sad husk of man who has no direction of life after he is forced to retire from boxing.
He is kind of like Brando in On The Waterfront's cab scene where he talks about being ranked #5 in the world in a touted division at the time, but that's all he has the past. He tries applying for jobs but gets rejected until he meets. Grace miller who sees the potential in mountain past all the boxing and the slurred speech she tries to help guide the man, but Mountain's loyalty to his corrupt manager just holds him back in life.
Mountain seeks the wrestling ring which is similar to the boxing ring, but with less hits and damage. Mountain will have to humilate himself for this job and he refuses to do it until he finds out it will save his friend from possibly death.
This movie is a hopelessness similar to Aronofsky's The Wrestler. Mountain and Randy The Ram have no escape from the professions and the people around them. The things they have made a career out of own them no matter if they try to leave or not.
The film ends similarly to 2008's Wrestler with Mountain stepping into the ring for his wrestling match similar to how Randy has his "last match". The parallels between these films also have to do with both of these professions wrestling and boxing both are vicious and body harming sports and you have to be at the top if you want to succeed, but the enjoyment is so fufilling that it gets people to stay and it consumes them past their worth and value to the game.
The Rod Serling did a great job at packing a punch with this one. This and Fat City are very similar and it's fitting I watched them Back to Back.
