Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Feb 20246/10
There are flashes of the legendary Muhammad Ali wit and quick-thinking delivery peppered throughout this otherwise rather long and ponderous story of the life of Cassius Clay from relative poverty through to his mastery of not just the boxing ring but of the television media that, at that point, fed successfully from this truly global sport. It's Will Smith who takes centre stage after his gold medal victory at the Tokyo Olympiad in 1964 and like many other pugilists in history, his character offers the down-trodden, working class, an inspiration. With sweat, tears and hard work he can escape the ghetto and have his fame and fortune, so why not them? What Michael Mann now proceeds to do is offer us a biopic of this man - of his peccadilloes, his religious beliefs, his persecution by the government when he refuses to be drafted to Vietnam and of some of his friendships with the great and the good of the equal rights movement that were gaining in prominence and effectiveness under the likes of Malcolm X (Mario Van Peebles). We are presented with a plausibly flawed individual, but one who is a proud and savvy man who knows just how to push the buttons to keeps his life-blood's publici
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Cast
- Will SmithMuhammad Ali / Cassius Clay
- Jamie FoxxDrew 'Bundini' Brown
- Jon VoightHoward Cosell
- Mario Van PeeblesMalcolm X
- Ron SilverAngelo Dundee
- Jeffrey WrightHoward Bingham
- Mykelti WilliamsonDon King
- Jada Pinkett SmithSonji Roi
- Nona GayeBelinda Ali
- Michael MicheleVeronica Porche
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- Michael MannDirector
- Stephen J. RiveleScreenplay
- Christopher WilkinsonScreenplay
- Eric RothScreenplay
- Emmanuel LubezkiDirector of Photography
- Pieter BourkeOriginal Music Composer
- Lisa GerrardOriginal Music Composer
- William GoldenbergEditor
- Lynzee KlingmanEditor
- Stephen E. RivkinEditor
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