Creed Since 1976, the Rocky franchise had entertained us in the life and struggles of becoming a professional boxer. It was more than just the rise of the boxing hierarchy, it was the personal struggles from within ranging from personal pride or ideologies to even personal fears. Nearly 40 years later since the first film, a new generation of boxers inherit the torch of their predecessors in rising to be the next best boxer. This movie also sets a new chapter in the Rocky franchise as the movie “Creed” is both a seventh sequel but also a spin-off of Rocky. Like the previous movies, Creed is set about a young man named Adonis Johnson in his struggle to being a professional boxer while trying to separate himself from his name sake of his father, …show more content…
Some do it for fame, make a name for themselves, or even out of poverty. What all three of the reasons listed have in common is a way of escaping from reality and their past. By escaping from their past, they can reform themselves to be how the public should view them. This is likely true in Adonis’s point of view as he tries to move away from the Creed name and as “Hollywood” Johnson. But for others, it was more of getting out of the hard life of poverty or abuse. In the 1952 American Journal of Sociology article “The Occupational Culture of the Boxer”, Weinberg states that many boxing scouts find boxers in such conditions such as being a minority or in the lower economic class. Weinberg states that “…The juvenile and adolescent culture of the lower socioeconomic levels provides a base for the boxing culture... A boy who lacks status tries to get it and to restore his self-esteem by fighting... Since he has otherwise little hope of any but unskilled, disagreeable work, the boxing way to money and prestige may appear very attractive” (Weinberg P.460-461). From this statement, Adonis somewhat started from a lower level before being adopted by his step-mother; No father, biological mother died, and going to different foster homes and juvenile hall throughout his youth. Perhaps he was lucky to be adopted at a younger age, but it doesn’t stir him away from the passion of boxing …show more content…
From minor setbacks like broken hands and noses to severe injuries like concussions. For nearly a century, many boxers suffer from head injuries due to prolong fighting careers. Even with the introductions of boxing gloves and reducing to 12 round matches, head injuries are still common even though the number of boxers having them have been dropping. Recently, many boxers would retire at a young age to reduce such life-long injuries such as concussions, Parkinson’s disease, and recently Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). According to the 2007 British Medical Journal “Boxing and the Risk of Chronic Brain Injury” by Paul McCrory, he states that “these injuries are unlikely to be seen in boxers today because of their relatively short careers. More recent studies of professional boxers find that 95% of registered boxers have fewer than three fights in their careers, and that the theoretical risk of concussive injury from sparring is almost non-existent” (McCrory P.781). It has affected many professional boxers like Muhammad Ali or fictional boxers like Rocky Balboa due to their long careers. While Adonis Creed only has a total of 17 fights, when will he decide to retire from the sport before he gets seriously hurt or even killed? Will Adonis finally understand the warnings Mrs. Creed and Tony Jr. gave him before becoming
Yes they might get paid handsomely but the lifelong damages it causes to the boxers are overwhelming. Life expectancy goes down even more when it comes to boxing because boxers have no head protection so if they get hit in the head it will cause severe
In Braddock’s case, this starts with The Road of Trials. Joe Gould, James’s manager, is able to get him a fight. During The Road of Trials, James spends his time training for fights in hopes to renew his boxing license. One of the many hardships James is faced with is his wife, Mae. She never wanted James to pursue boxing after his license had been revoked, in fear that he would get hurt, disabling him from work. She could be described as James’s Woman as the Temptress. The Initiation ends with the final step, The Ultimate Boon. After winning several fights, James gets his boxing license renewed and has had a steady income for the first time since the Great
Remnick does not shy away from discussing the shadowy history of the boxing world (no pun intended). It's well known boxing has been affiliated with the 'mob,' but perhaps what is lesser known is Clay's absolute refusal to be in any way associated with the Mafia.
James Braddock took his father’s lessons to heart when he practiced fighting in the old schoolyard before he reached his teenage years. He practiced for several years to be an amateur fighter. When Braddock first started boxing he avoided professional competitions for two years. Instead, they froze the title, which means Braddock earned money touring the country giving public appearances and boxing exhibitions. In 1926, he entered the professional boxing circuit in the light heavyweight division.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease attributed to single, sporadic, or repetitive brain trauma, including concussions and subconcussive hits (Baugh et al., 2012; Wortzel et al., 2013). This disease was originally referred to as dementia pugilistica, and nicknamed “punch drunk,” because individuals suffering from this disorder would present symptoms that were similar to someone’s mannerisms while being intoxicated (Wortzel et al., 2013). This “drunken” behavior is thought to be attributed to the cognitive, mood, and behavioral alterations as a result of the repetitive hits to the brain over an extended period of time. Because individuals suffering from this disease are often exposed to conditions that allow them to sustain blows to the head multiple times, the populations most often examined in these studies are athletes (football, boxing, rugby) and/or individuals in the military (McKee et al., 2009). Individuals can be symptom free for several years (Baugh et al., 2012). The onset of symptoms are sometimes seen about eight to ten years after an individual retires from their sport, which roughly equates to someone aged thirty to fifty yeas old (Baugh et al., 2012; Wortzel et al., 2013; Karantzoulis and Randolph, 2013). As with all diseases, symptoms can range from mild to severe. Researchers have found a positive correlation between the number of brain injuries sustained during a length of time playing a sport and the severity of symptoms (McKee et al., 2009).
Boxing was earlier known by the name Pugilism ,meaning “sweet Science”(The Editors Of Encyclopedia Britannica).Historical evidence lead to the fact that boxing was prevalent in North Africa in four thousand B.C, it was also popular in Greek and Rome(HOB).Now Back to MMA, the fastest growing sports organization in the world ,the Ultimate Fighting Championship(UFC),started in 1993 as a professional mixed martial arts(MMA) organization(UFC). UFC matches take place inside the Octagon ,an eight-sided structure comprised of metal chain link fence(Britannica). The fence is six feet high and allows for 30 feet of space from point to point of the Octagon(Britannica). For a fight recap if a kickboxer was matched with a brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, the kickboxer would realize that he must become more adept at defending takedowns ,thus prompting him to train with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner(UFC). From that point forward ,competitions were no longer between athletes who focused on a singular martial art ,but between to an athlete with two are or more
Fight Club is a story about the never-ending struggles between classes. The Project Mayhem is formed in an attempt to overthrow the upper class who undermines the lower class. There are a number of scenes in the story, which highlights the struggle between classes. For instance, when Tyler pees in the soup of an upper class person, when he splices pornography into films and the scene when a mechanic takes the unnamed narrator to steal body fat. The characters here do all they can to fight against the upper class people and to get revenge.
The Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, constructs an underground world of men fighting with one and other to find the meaning to their lives. Ed Norton and Brad Pitt are the main characters who start the fight club. They make a set of rules in which everyone must follow.
Being a professional boxer didn’t do much for his mental health because he says he would feel on top of the world and yet so lonely at the same time after a fight. Therefore, he suffered not only the physical demands, but the mental demands in the professional arena of the sport.
Fight Club. Novel by Chuck Palahniuk. Screenplay by Jim Uhls. Dir. David Fincher. 1999. 20th Century Fox, 2002. DVD.
Analysis of Fight Club The changeover scene of Director David Fincher’s film Fight Club emphasizes the inner battle of self-versus-self that takes place within the main character. The changeover scene begins when the main character Jack enters into the unfamiliar setting of the bar, and a bartender, whom Jack does not recognize, identifies him. Fincher employs techniques of mis-en-scene, such as lighting, to help convey the doppelgänger motif. The utilization of two distinctly diverse characters aids in the portrayal of the paradigmatic changeover scene because they depict the psychological allegory between the characters Jack and Tyler Durden in order to convey themes of consumerism and psychological repression/release.
yet only light of possible success. Despite the feasibility of fame and wealth, middle and upper class men “don’t mind professional baseball and football, but to be labeled a ‘prizefighter’ is something they can’t quite. swallow”(237). In opposition to my current beliefs, Elliot J. Gorn, the author of The Manly Art, believes that “boxers are victims of racial and class discrimination”. discrimination, that the ring encourages violence, and that pugilism appeals.
Frequently, the typical underdog sports movie discourses one’s own sense of individuality and perseverance. Many times, individuals tend to distinguish underdog sports movies as cliché and homogeneous. In John G. Avildsen’s film The Karate Kid, an underdog story is articulated that not only addresses the prominence of discipline, individualism, and conformity but thoroughly depicts the American perspective of social values and cultural boundaries. As an individual who has a passion for music similarly to how the characters in The Karate Kid have a passion for karate, it can immediately be accredited that telling an underdog story allows one to comprehend the lessons valued in an American society.
Fight Club “Its only after we’ve lost everything are we free to do anything”, Tyler Durden as (Brad Pitt) states, among many other lines of contemplation. In Fight Club, a nameless narrator, a typical “everyman,” played as (Edward Norton) is trapped in the world of large corporations, condominium living, and all the money he needs to spend on all the useless stuff he doesn’t need. As Tyler Durden says “The things you own end up owning you.” Fight Club is an edgy film that takes on such topics as consumerism, the feminization of society, manipulation, cultism, Marxist ideology, social norms, dominant culture, and the psychiatric approach of the human id, ego, and super ego. “It is a film that surrealistically describes the status of the American
The narrator is changed by his experience with fight club; his life becomes all about fight club. Fight club becomes the reason for the narrators existence. The narrator experiences a shift in consciousness; in that, he is able to understand more of who he is and what really matters in life through fight clubs trial by fire. Through battle and a mindset of counterculture and a complete expulsion of ...