The 2005 film “Cinderella Man” was based on the true story of James Braddock and his family during the Great Depression. As the film progresses it truly shows the hardships of the depression through the Braddock families perspective. The film also shows the changes in wealth among many through the years of the depression. With Jim’s boxing career crashing down and his work at the docks getting to be less and less each day the film also accurately showed the shortage of jobs during the Great
Movie Review PART 1: During the Great Depression, James J. Braddock (The Cinderella Man) became one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, his career appeared to be finished, after losing fights and a broken right hand the boxing chairman, Jimmy Johnston revoked his license to fight. Down on his luck, James began working at the New York docks and go on Public Relief. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot
Cinderella Man, a film written by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman, is a plot about heart, grit, and determination. James J. Braddock is a boxer from the state of New Jersey, who broke his hand in the ring, forcing Braddock to give up boxing. Due to James’ reiteration of his boxing career, Braddock is forced to work as dock laborer in order to earn sufficient wages to support his wife and family. Braddock has a drive and ambition for the sport of boxing and deep down wishes to get back into
Many events occurred in the movie “Cinderella Man”. The main character in this movie was James J. Braddock. Some other people that were in the movie were the Braddock family and Joe Gould, Max Baer and Father Roddick. The story takes place in New Jersey. It was about his family and other people's lives when the depression started. It showed how people were losing money and had a very hard time, some even had to sell all of their items just to keep food on their table. The main focus of the movie
Cinderella Man The film “Cinderella Man” directed by Ron Howard, is nonfiction movie created in 2005. The story is based on a boxer named James J. Baddock, played by Russell Crowe. Braddock starts off as a wealthy man living in a time where the economy was at a strong point. He owned a nice home and lived in a friendly neighborhood. However, this is all changed in the 1930’s when the biggest economy downfall caused unemployment to rise and money became scarce. This movie accurately depicts what
McMullin Movie Review #1 10/24/14 A Cinderella Story According to blogger Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts, Cinderella Man “grabs the heart, not only as a sports redemption story, but also as a tale of national inspiration.” Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, is a biographical film that tells the fact-based tale of depression era boxing champion James J. Braddock. The film is titled after Braddock’s nickname, which he earned for his fairytale-like rise from a defeated man to the heavyweight boxing champion of
The film, the Cinderella Man is a biographical film following the life of boxer James J. Braddock during the Great Depression. Movies such as Seabiscuit always over-exaggerate the horrible lives of people during the Great Depression. However, the Cinderella man correctly shows the life through the 1930s and accurately portrays the struggles during the Great Depression. The director, Ron Howard, depicts the depression perfectly and gives the viewer a sense of what life was like during that time by
The Cinderella Man In the movie the Cinderella man who is called James jay Braddock and he is a fighter and in his first fight he broke his hand and had a cast on for 6-8 weeks when he broke his hand the second time he got deregisted from the boxing industry until his hand was healed he could get back into the boxing industry so he could fight again and he fights to keep his family out of poverty. At the start of the movie he was fighting a boxer and he won a lot of money and then in a week or two
told in the film: The Cinderella Man. The Cinderella Man refrains from adding inaccurate thematic elements and accurately portrays James J. Braddock’s life, his boxing career, and the Great Depression. The Cinderella Man accurately portrays James J. Braddock’s family life. During the Great Depression, Braddock underwent many struggles including feeding his family. The film notes Braddock’s care and concern for his children influencing him to give them his food (The Man 1). Braddock’s publicized
Cinderella Man, released in 2005, stars Russell Crowe playing James J. Braddock. James is a husband, father, and a champion boxer. In the late 1920’s, the Braddock family is very well off. James or The Bulldog of Bergen is becoming more and more popular with each fight. He is able to bring home more than enough money to support him and his family, then the Great Depression hits. Even though Braddock is a wealthy, nationally known man, him and his family fall into the crisis. They move out of their
The film Cinderella Man focuses on the main character, James Braddock, an ex-boxer, who loses his job due to the Great Depression. Not over analyzing, the film may seem as though the intended audience is for ex-boxers or for those who lived through the difficult times of the Great Depression, but, analyzing the film more thoroughly, it seems as though the intent is to aim for those who have suffered or are in the midst of suffering poverty and for those who lack determination or a support system
In “Cinderella Man” a man named James J. Braddock is a man of many words. The movie shares controversial sightings of constant struggle with Braddock and his family of four: his wife Mae Fox and children James jr., Howard, and sweet little Rosemarie. The movie is cast upon true events of how this man not only fought for his family but fought in the ring. He’s an outstanding heavyweight champion back during the Great Depression years. He was unstoppable, an unlikely source. He grew doubt in himself
Ron Howard’s film Cinderella Man tells the real-life story of James Braddock and his family before and during the Great Depression. The film begins with his first light heavyweight championship during the Roaring 20s, and then fast-forwards to his Great Depression, when he struggles with a broken right hand and eventually loses his right to box after too many losses against minor opponents. Braddock then tries to find work on the docks but only succeeds some of the time, and even has to resort
Cinderella Man The visual text, “Cinderella Man”, directed by Ron Howard, is centred around James J. Braddock, otherwise known as Jimmy Braddock, a washed-up ex-Boxer living in 1930’s New Jersey with his wife, Mae, and three kids, during the height of the Great Depression. When his manager and friend, Joe Gould, gets him a one-time-only fight after he loses his boxing license, everything begins to change and Jimmy’s luck begins to improve. Not only that, but he becomes a national icon and a symbol
In society, there is a thing called a hero’s journey. It is when our destiny is before us, and with the choices we make, depict our course for the rest of our lives. In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Cinderella Man directed by Ron Howard show how the hero’s journey affects Santiago and Jim Braddock lives. In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago is a poor Shepard. He travels across Spain and the middle east selling wool from his sheep. For some time, Santiago has been having the same
The Man, the Father, the Legend In Damon Runyon's Cinderella Man From its title, one gets the idea this story is going to be a myth about redemption and empowerment. In actuality, this is a tremendous true story about a man named Jimmy Braddock who lives out a fairy tale, not a sugar coated fairy tale, but more of a grimace one. Cinderella Man is a film of survival and people finding strength within, to do what they have to do to carry on, particularly for what it takes a man to provide for his
Cinderella Man is a flim based on the rise of World Championship boxer James Braddock. Braddock's life was affected heavily by the great depression, and the film does well to show this. The film also does a good job of chronicling the life of the everyday man during the great depression. This essay aims to discuss the role of the stock market crash in the beginning of the great depression, the effects of the depression on the life of the everyday man, and the effects of the depression on the life
culture of the time did not reflect this. People wanted to escape from this harsh time so movies, dancing and sports became very popular. Radios broadcasted boxing matches and boxers became stars. The heavyweight champion James J. Braddock aka “Cinderella Man,” gained popularity. James Braddock gained fame by winning many fights and proving everyone wrong when they said he was too old and couldn’t win. James Braddock took his father’s lessons to heart when he practiced fighting in the old schoolyard
Ron Howards film Cinderella man centers around an up and coming boxer named James J. Braddock who is following the American Dream during the Great Depression. The movie begins by painting Braddock as a star riding on cloud 9. He has wads of cash sitting on the dresser, a beautiful wife, healthy kids, and a house in a nice neighborhood. The bulldog of Bergen, as he is called in the ring, is on the cusp of being a world champion. Then without any immediate explanation James is destitute. He is living
Cinderella Man is the story of professional boxer, James J. “The Hope of the Irish” Braddock’s rise back into the spotlight. James was a championship boxer in the late 1920’s and was known by everyone in the New York/New Jersey area. Everyone has their downs, James’ down hit him when the stock market crashed in 1929, when he lost almost all of his money. After the market crashed, Braddock was getting worse and worse at boxing, he went from unstoppable to easily defeated. 4 years into the Great Depression