6/14/2023 0 Comments Film sandrelaThe bleakness of the times is the graininess and the sepia/greyness of the camera shots the images are stark but completely descriptive. Without using violins or cliché' pull-back shots showing the numbers of people homeless and in soup lines, Howard makes the Depression a visceral reality with scenes of near-hopeless men at the docks, pleading for a day's work a stolen salami Crowe's giving his daughter his breakfast piece of bologna, telling her he dreamed he was full. Ron Howard has made of the real life of Depression-era prize-fighter James J. But for all of Russell Crowe's reputation for being "difficult", it is hard to think of actors who can equal his personal force on the screen. You have to believe they are at the top of their game. It is not that Renee Zellwegger and Paul Giamatti, Paddy Considine, Bruce McGill and Craig Bierko, among others, give less than stellar performances: they all live up to their justifiably great reputations. I feel like I am being punched, as Renee' Zellwegger's character Mae Braddock says, and I'm not as tough as these prize fighters. I've already seen "Million Dollar Baby" and "Raging Bull" this year, and accidentally watched part of one of the "son of Rocky" serial movies on a Saturday afternoon. The dilemma: I hate boxing movies I love Russell Crowe movies.
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