Million dollar baby
I saw the movie y'day @ innovative multiplex
The story is all about Maggie (Hillary Swank)- she is very poor - she eats the left over of other custs in the restaurant. - she dreams big - to become a boxing champion. She comes to Framkie (Clint Eastwood) to be trained - Frankie doesn't want to train her as she is a woman, but she will not let it go...she manages to convince him to train her. Frankie sees in her his lost daughter...slowly they a build a strong emotional rapport.
Frankie Dunn, is a man who has trained boxing champions. He is a man at odds with himself. He has demons within him that are tearing away at his soul. We watch him going to mass on a daily basis, but does that qualify him as a devout Catholic? Not according to Father Horvak, who sees a troubled soul in search of redemption.
Frankie's letters comes back, returned from a daughter that wants nothing to do with him. Frankie, at the beginning of the film, loses the services of one his better boxers because a richer competitor is willing to pay the fighter much more. Frankie keeps the older Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris employed in the gym because he feels guilty in having let this former boxer down at the highest point of Scrap's career.
Into this world comes Maggie Fitzgerald. She is a young woman who wants to make it as a fighter; she comes from a white trash background and everything is against her. The only reason she has been allowed in the all-male gym is because she has paid six months worth of membership. We watch Maggie as she struggles on her own without any help from Frankie, the man she would like to interest in coaching her. Frankie realizes there is potential in this young woman, who he sees on a daily basis practicing, and he relents. Maggie proves she follows his instructions well. Then we watch her progress as she wins fight after fight until the million dollar fight with the vicious title holder.
The ironic twist toward the end of the movie arrives out of nowhere; it shakes us up because it was totally unexpected. It makes Frankie and Maggie become father and daughter. Because of the guilt he feels in his own life, Frankie does the right thing in accepting the responsibility of the situation.
If anyone had doubts about the genius of Clint Eastwood, they should run, not walk, to see "Million Dollar Baby", perhaps the best movie that came out of Hollywood on boxing...
Some trivia - as far as i can recollect
1) movie made in just one month
2) name of the restaurant - Irash roadside diner
3) name of the gym - Hit Fit gym
4) Hillary swank (best actress), Morgan freeman(best-supporting actor), Clint Eastwood(best director) bag oscars...
5) For the professional fight - Frankie gives Maggie a beautiful dress with "Mo Cuishile" written on it. It means "My darling/My blood" in Irish. frankie always says "Always protect urself" to maggie. Maggie fails because she forgets her mentor's words to always protect herself. Her last words " I think I did allright"
6) Franki reads out an Yeats poem ="The lake Isle of Innisfree" - Its Irish...so how do I understand? :-(
The story is all about Maggie (Hillary Swank)- she is very poor - she eats the left over of other custs in the restaurant. - she dreams big - to become a boxing champion. She comes to Framkie (Clint Eastwood) to be trained - Frankie doesn't want to train her as she is a woman, but she will not let it go...she manages to convince him to train her. Frankie sees in her his lost daughter...slowly they a build a strong emotional rapport.
Frankie Dunn, is a man who has trained boxing champions. He is a man at odds with himself. He has demons within him that are tearing away at his soul. We watch him going to mass on a daily basis, but does that qualify him as a devout Catholic? Not according to Father Horvak, who sees a troubled soul in search of redemption.
Frankie's letters comes back, returned from a daughter that wants nothing to do with him. Frankie, at the beginning of the film, loses the services of one his better boxers because a richer competitor is willing to pay the fighter much more. Frankie keeps the older Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris employed in the gym because he feels guilty in having let this former boxer down at the highest point of Scrap's career.
Into this world comes Maggie Fitzgerald. She is a young woman who wants to make it as a fighter; she comes from a white trash background and everything is against her. The only reason she has been allowed in the all-male gym is because she has paid six months worth of membership. We watch Maggie as she struggles on her own without any help from Frankie, the man she would like to interest in coaching her. Frankie realizes there is potential in this young woman, who he sees on a daily basis practicing, and he relents. Maggie proves she follows his instructions well. Then we watch her progress as she wins fight after fight until the million dollar fight with the vicious title holder.
The ironic twist toward the end of the movie arrives out of nowhere; it shakes us up because it was totally unexpected. It makes Frankie and Maggie become father and daughter. Because of the guilt he feels in his own life, Frankie does the right thing in accepting the responsibility of the situation.
If anyone had doubts about the genius of Clint Eastwood, they should run, not walk, to see "Million Dollar Baby", perhaps the best movie that came out of Hollywood on boxing...
Some trivia - as far as i can recollect
1) movie made in just one month
2) name of the restaurant - Irash roadside diner
3) name of the gym - Hit Fit gym
4) Hillary swank (best actress), Morgan freeman(best-supporting actor), Clint Eastwood(best director) bag oscars...
5) For the professional fight - Frankie gives Maggie a beautiful dress with "Mo Cuishile" written on it. It means "My darling/My blood" in Irish. frankie always says "Always protect urself" to maggie. Maggie fails because she forgets her mentor's words to always protect herself. Her last words " I think I did allright"
6) Franki reads out an Yeats poem ="The lake Isle of Innisfree" - Its Irish...so how do I understand? :-(
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