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Women's Edition [Rocky]
Beulah 2022-11-07 14:02:39
[Million Dollar Baby] It needs to be divided into three parts. The first part of it is full of boxing movie clichés, with the women's version of [Rocky], but without any exciting boxing scenes. The second part is getting better and better, describing in detail how the two protagonists who desperately need affection to fill each other's shortcomings and establish a father-daughter relationship, with more sincerity but new ideas still lacking. However, the third part, which is the essence of the whole film, suddenly turned around with an astonishing battle, causing the audience to suffer emotionally unpreparedly while in chaos. They wanted to fully express their innermost feelings without destroying the mystery of the plot. It is almost impossible to be shocked. Eastwood’s films are always male-centered. The role of Maggie is definitely the heaviest and most complex female character in his work. Before that, it seems that only Meryl can count the main heroine. Streep played Francesca in [Covered Bridge Last Dream]. Maggie is not an ambitious Cinderella. Without a good education and family warmth and support, she can only make a desperate bet in boxing. The strong desire for victory is about dignity and loyalty rather than fame. She was not deliberately portrayed as brutal and fierce, on the contrary, she often gave people a sense of freshness and tranquility. The various emotions in her heart were also conveyed through very restrained body language. As the saying goes, great wisdom is foolish, great skill is clumsy. The calm and calm Eastwood did not adopt any flashy and hypocritical modifications to [Million Dollar Baby]. He chose to use the most concise expression technique to realize his profound artistic pursuit. Don't underestimate the word brevity, it is often a sign of excellent quality. Unfortunately, most movies nowadays have abandoned this quality, they are busy expressing a single thought in a complicated way.
Extended Reading
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Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: All fighters are pig-headed some way or another: some part of them always thinks they know better than you about something. Truth is: even if they're wrong, even if that one thing is going to be the ruin of them, if you can beat that last bit out of them... they ain't fighters at all.
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Maggie Fitzgerald: You're gonna leave me again?
Frankie Dunn: Never.