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Muhammad Ali
When We Were Kings
1996
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Ten film powstawał niemal 25 lat. W założeniu miał być relacją z odbytej 1974 roku walki o tytuł bokserskiego mistrza świata wszechwag pomiędzy Muhammadem Ali a Georgem Foremanem, opowieścią o tym, jak dwaj czarni bokserzy wracają do Afryki, by na ringo w Kinszasie, stolicy Zairu, przypomnieć światu o swoich korzeniach. Dziś jest świadectwem tamtej epoki - burzliwych lat 70, ich napięć i politycznych nastrojów, spojrzeniem za kulisy bokserskiej karuzeli. A także świadectwem ducha walki dwóch wielkich indywidualności światowego sportu. Lecz przede wszystkim kroniką wspaniałego - w wymiarze sportowym i moralnym - zwycięstwa Muhammada Ali.
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This is a legend of Cassius Clay
the most beautiful fighter
in the world today.
He talks a great deal
and brags indeedy
Of a muscular punch
that is incredibly speedy.
The fistic world
was dull and weary
With a champion like Liston
Things had to be dreary.
Then someone with colour
Someone with dash
Brought fight fans
All running
with cash.
This brash young boxer
Is something to see
and the Heavy Weight
Championship
Is his destiny.
Muhammad Ali, 1963
Muhammad Ali
THE GREATEST
2002
Documentary covering the career of the greatest sporting personality of the 20th century, Muhammad Ali--The Greatest adds little or nothing in the way of footage or insight unavailable elsewhere. However, it certainly provides an adequate summary of a much-told tale and makes for a good potted introduction to Ali, his sensational conquest of Sonny Liston, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, his exile from boxing following his anti-war stance and return to perform his own "personal age of miracles".
The fight footage here is mostly recycled from Bill Cayton and Jim Jacobs' vast stock of film as opposed to telecasts. Here again, then, are the grainy, quicksilver images of the skinny young Ali bamboozling ponderous journeymen Tunney Hunsaker in his debut fight, of the never adequately explained "phantom punch" against Liston in their second fight, of the dancing demolition job he performed on Cleveland Williams in 1967, perhaps the three most awesome, albeit one-sided rounds of heavyweight boxing ever. There are occasional excerpts of Ali running his mouth outside the ring, but these are too few and too familiar. Ian Darke of Sky TV provides a professionally glossy narration that's just about the right side of glib, but the budget doesn't really extend to much beyond cut and pasted footage (with only stills shots of his knockout of George Foreman) spliced with interviews with the likes of Henry Cooper, Ali's old Doctor Angelo and trainer Angelo Dundee who explains, for perhaps the hundredth time to camera, that he thought "Muslim" was a piece of cloth.
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