The films of sports in general and boxing in particular are not really much, but there are still excellent works that leave many imprints for readers. Here are the 5 best films, worth watching the topic Boxing – Boxing.
1. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
This Finnish film was released in 2016, with a real prototype, Finnish boxer Olli Maki, not too famous. Even in the movie, the main character did not win the glory of victory but had to give up on the boxing floor.
But “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki” is highly appreciated at the Cannes Film Festival without any reason.
The film tells the story of Olli Maki – the fist suddenly had the opportunity to compete for the World World belt – must be cut from the Lightweight 61kg class to the Featherweight 57kg relegation in just 2 weeks to the radio with a much higher level opponent at Helsinki home yard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laax7xwazpm
While the trimming trimming in a short time was extremely tired, Maki had to coordinate with an unpleasant shooting team that the manager invited to promote him; Comes with “extremely lost” dinner to welcome sponsors for the match. In addition to the pressure to prepare the upper radio with the opponent, all the pent -ups placed on the shoulder of the martial artist exploded just 2 days before the match.
According to many reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, the stress factors for boxers of boxers before the upper day were truly truthfully conveyed.
“The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” is probably not a film for those who expect the main character to easily win, easily kick through all obstacles; But it will be a movie worth watching for those who are interested in what really happened to a boxer before the day they competed on the floor light.
2. Rocky series (part 1 to 6) and 2 parts Creed
“Rocky”, the character Rocky Balboa and actor-acting acting Sylvester Stallone certainly always on the “classic” list of boxing films. “Rocky” was so successful that there were 6 different films with Rocky Balboa as the main character, and then the “Creed” films when Rocky acted as a coach.
Sylvester Stallone depicts the extremely excellent Rocky Balboa – a poor, non -reputation puncher, betting everything on the opportunity to fight with the defending world champion Apollo Creed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rypjaomo2m
Through Rocky's story, viewers experience the desire to win, the desire to become famous and the relentless efforts of a true puncher. The romance between Rocky Balboa and his girlfriend also causes strong dynamic to the audience.
The series “Creed” again exploited another main character line – the son of Apollo Creed, Adonis Creed; And who confronted him, Viktor Drago – the son of Ivan Drago (also the old opponent of Rocky Balboa). Here, Sylvester Stallone became a coach of Adonis Creed.
With the thrilling story, the hiphop soundtrack, and especially the upper stage is considered to be the highest boxing match ever staged on the screen, both of the Creed films are worth watching with the audience loving England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv554b7yhk4
3. Million dollar Baby
“Million Dollar Baby” is not pleasant to a part of the viewer, because it refers to one of the sadest patches of martial arts – injury and death. The story revolves around the Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) – the table girl is fostered by coach Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) to become an excellent punch.
At first, the story was very positive, with a series of victories, the success of Maggie Fitzgerald in the boxing arena. She even attended a belt match with a guarantee of up to $ 1 million – the reason for the name “Million Dollar Baby” of the film.
However, after Maggie had a broken neck and a limb fiercely because the opponent hit cold, the story line became extremely gloomy. No longer the ability of the radio, without the care of the family, besides Maggie, only the teacher Frankie – who considered her as a biological daughter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_rshrmirby
The scene of Maggie Fitzgerald, painful and miserable both physically and mentally, praying to the coach to help her die as one of the most haunting scenes throughout the 132 -minute movie. Maggie's death and torment in the soul of coach Frankie Dunn also took a lot of tears from the viewers.
4. Raging bull
“Raging Bull” brought the audience back to the 40s, when the boxing matches that day were still fierce matches, when the boxers were willing to “sell blood” on the floor at the casino against the mafia tycoons.
But it was only part of the film revolving around the life of Jake Lamotta – the boxing champion with the nickname “Raging Bull” – “Crazy Bull”.
Jake Lamotta always rushed into the opponent, launching the most violent punches, despite injury, like a gaur. That made his great success on the stage. Until now, Lamotta is still recognized as one of the hardest chin players ever appearing in boxing history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup6d79wrvi
However, Jake Lamotta has a sad personal life – what is depicted through the role of Robert De Niro.
Always tend to violate and jealous, Lamotta himself pushed the people who loved him the most, including his younger brother Joey Lamotta, his wife, Vickie Lamotta and his children left him. Then, when entering the end of life, the boxing champion can only recall everything in the endless regret.
5. Southpaw
“Southpaw” interwoven the journey to find herself on the stage and the journey to regain confidence from the daughter of the Light Heavyweight Billy Hope, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
Billy Hope fell to the bottom of his wife, Maureen, died of being shot while Billy Hope was fighting against rival Miguel Escobar. The pain of losing his wife made Hope completely lose hope, he repeatedly failed both on the stage and in his heart of his daughter Leila.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2EBPXHOLS
Southpaw's plot and motif is a bit flute, maybe even “pale”, but if the audience is a boxing fan, it is okay, the confrontation scenes are built excellent in the film that can compensate for that defect.
The blow in “Southpaw” is very sharp, the sound of each punch is extremely true. More great, director Antoine Fuqua also turned the boxing floor into a place where two punchers not only “fight”, but also have to “fight”, must be tense with each tactic, each piece of the two sides.
It can be said that the upper scenes in “Southpaw” deserve to be ranked in the first rankings of the boxing film genre.