THE SUMMARY OF CINDERELLA MAN
As the United States enters the Great Depression, Braddock does manual labor to support his family. Thanks to a last-minute cancellation by another boxer, Braddock's longtime manager Joe Gould offers him a chance to fill in for just this one night and make a little money. The fight is against the number two contender in the world and Braddock is seen as little more than a convenient punching bag.
Braddock stuns the boxing experts and fans with a third-round knockout of his formidable opponent. He believes that because his hand is now healed, he is fit to fight. Against his wife's wishes, Braddock takes up Gould's offer to return to the ring.
Mae resents this attempt by Gould to profit off her husband's dangerous livelihood until she discovers that Gould and his wife also have been devastated by hard times.
With a shot at heavyweight champion Max Baer a possibility, Braddock continues to win. Out of a sense of pride, he uses a portion of his prize money to pay back money to the government given to him while unemployed. His rags-to-riches story gets out, the sportswriter Damon Runyon dubs him "The Cinderella Man" and before long Braddock comes to represent the hopes and aspirations of the American public coping with the Depression.
A title fight comes his way. Braddock is a 10-to-1 underdog. Mae is terrified because Baer, the champ, is a vicious man who reportedly has killed at least two men in the ring. He is so destructive that the fight's promoter, Johnson, forces both Braddock and Gould to watch a film of Baer in action, just so he can maintain later that he warned them what Braddock was up against.
Braddock demonstrates no fear. The arrogant Baer attempts to intimidate him, even taunting Mae in public that her man might not survive. She cannot bring herself to attend the fight at Madison Square Garden or even to listen to it on the radio.
On June 13, 1935, in one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, Braddock defeats the seemingly invincible Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.James J. Braddock is a hard-nosed, Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is a relief and an upset to his wife, Mae, who cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his chosen profession, and yet knows without him boxing they'll have no good income.
As the United States enters the Great Depression, Braddock does manual labor to support his family. Thanks to a last-minute cancellation by another boxer, Braddock's longtime manager Joe Gould offers him a chance to fill in for just this one night and make a little money. The fight is against the number two contender in the world and Braddock is seen as little more than a convenient punching bag.
Braddock stuns the boxing experts and fans with a third-round knockout of his formidable opponent. He believes that because his hand is now healed, he is fit to fight. Against his wife's wishes, Braddock takes up Gould's offer to return to the ring.
Mae resents this attempt by Gould to profit off her husband's dangerous livelihood until she discovers that Gould and his wife also have been devastated by hard times.
With a shot at heavyweight champion Max Baer a possibility, Braddock continues to win. Out of a sense of pride, he uses a portion of his prize money to pay back money to the government given to him while unemployed. His rags-to-riches story gets out, the sportswriter Damon Runyon dubs him "The Cinderella Man" and before long Braddock comes to represent the hopes and aspirations of the American public coping with the Depression.
A title fight comes his way. Braddock is a 10-to-1 underdog. Mae is terrified because Baer, the champ, is a vicious man who reportedly has killed at least two men in the ring. He is so destructive that the fight's promoter, Johnson, forces both Braddock and Gould to watch a film of Baer in action, just so he can maintain later that he warned them what Braddock was up against.
Braddock demonstrates no fear. The arrogant Baer attempts to intimidate him, even taunting Mae in public that her man might not survive. She cannot bring herself to attend the fight at Madison Square Garden or even to listen to it on the radio.
On June 13, 1935, in one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, Braddock defeats the seemingly invincible Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
I effected from this film very much because of his ambition and life arguement. In the beginnig of the film he is very good at boxing so his financial situaition is enough. However after his injury he had to stop boxing but he didnt give up he tried so hard and started boxing again. This ambition is effected me also films topic and events are very interesting. Boxing is an exciting and attractive.
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