Gordon Parks class=”text”> Portrait of boxer Muhammad Ali (© 2006 The Gordon Parks Foundation)
dedicates his latest project, Muhammad Ali’s greatest fight , to the intricacies of the legal battle that ended Muhammad Ali returning to his boxing title and boxing license.
is not the first time that a film deals with the charismatic figure of the former world champion, who played himself in The Greatest or was played by Will Smith in Michael Mann’s film Ali , but the first, as the director told reporters that someone episode focuses on the unknown in its history.
class=”imp”> The film, made for television, has the backing of HBO Frears film presented out of competition at Cannes and she was looking provide “perspective cool “about that character and the deliberations of the U.S. Supreme Court, ordering that the case is over after appeals by the boxer.
The author of Dangerous Liaisons , Irish Coffee or Queen has mixed archive footage to the role of Ali with a dramatization of the events starring among others by Christopher Plummer, Frank Langella and Benjamin Walker.
“I never imagined I would make a film about Ali or the Supreme Court. Of course I liked him, but there is great difference between that and wanting to do one, “he told a small group of international press, justifying the project on the quality of the script received.
Boxer, formerly Cassius Clay, he joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and at the height of his career, in 1967, after refusing to join the military for religious reasons, was convicted of treason to five years in prison.
Do not came to meet but saw his license withdrawn and spent four years out of the ring in that fight parallel to regain their rights in the courts, where Frears introduces his camera.
The telefilm was made by U.S. network HBO and makes Frears is in Cannes, he confessed, especially as a matter of “vanity”: “It is a film made for television. (…) I wanted to draw attention because I think about her a lot. “
Frears did not know Ali, because even met him in a room, had the feeling he wanted to be alone and not approached him. Although you tried to be faithful to what happened, makes clear that, despite all the documentation reviewed, the film is nothing more than “a guess”.
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