Great Depression Cinderella Man

The Great Depression is seen as one of the most sorrowful and desolate times in the history of the United States. This time was the longest period of recession ever seen by this nation so far. It lasted from 1929 to 1939, over ten years of complete confusion and despondency within the people. Many Americans were affected greatly by this tragic time and sacrificed much of their lives so that they and their families may have the chance to live. This act of desperation can be seen throughout the movie, The Cinderella Man, where a professional boxer, Jim Braddock, becomes crippled by the depression, both economically and spiritually. The observer can see this through the explicit cinematography of the movie and depiction of the Great

Life in the 1920’s was drastically different from life in the Great Depression. In the 20’s life was amazing. Wealth was being spread and the parties never stopped. It was all over when the stock market crashed in 1929. Banks closed and everyone lost their money. The movie Cinderella Man showed how life changed for boxer James Braddock. He was a famous boxer during the twenties. The movie showed the struggles he went through when the Depression hit. He lost his job and barely made it by. Cinderella Man shows James Braddock being on top to being at rock bottom. He was forced to go on public assistance to provide for his family. Cinderella Man showed how life changed from the 20s to the Great Depression and how the New Deal helped people

During the great depression, everyone had lost everything that they owned, this is represented by the movie, “Cinderella Man”. James Braddock was fighter that much like everyone else had lost everything they owned in the depression. He was down on his luck and happen been winning many fights in the past until he got something better than the motivation to get a title, his family was his new found motive to fight. Braddock was a true symbol of the time period that he was fighting in because every American was trying to fight their way back to where they had previously been and get out of the pit they were in. There were a few historical inaccuracies and many historical accuracies that were added to give general effect. “Cinderella Man” was an

Cinderella Man is a flim based on the rise of World Championship boxer James Braddock. Braddock's life was affected heavily by the great depression, and the film does well to show this. The film also does a good job of chronicling the life of the everyday man during the great depression. This essay aims to discuss the role of the stock market crash in the beginning of the great depression, the effects of the depression on the life of the everyday man, and the effects of the depression on the life of James J Braddock and his family.

The Braddock family faced economic hardships during the great depression. In the Cinderella Man movie, the man cut off the power because they weren’t paying the electric bills. Another scene was when they were eating baloneys to survive and Mr. Braddock hands the little girl his baloney. This depicted their economic hardships and inability to buy sufficient food for the family. The reason for the economic hardship was clear. During his conversation in the bar after working on the docks, Mr. Braddock tells his friend that he even invested his money on a taxi.

The Depression had many effects on the movie. All of the men down at the docks are very eager and most likely desperate the way they try to show there face to the man picking only a handful of them. The actions of these men are because they are unemployed and if they have family they are most likely struggling keeping enough food on the table for them to eat. Jobs were very hard to find and even if they did get them, it wasn’t like winning the lottery, it was hardly enough to pay ends meat. One day when James comes home he finds out his son has stolen a slab of salami for the local meat store. This is a very sad scene because after Jim finds out the true reasoning behind his son’s the audience finds out that he is really just scared of being sent away because he knows the times are tough and isn’t sure his father can provide for him and his two other siblings. His son stealing the meat is also symbolic for how and why the crime rate rose during the great depression. Another scene that represents the Depression’s affect on the Braddock’s family and there peers is all there kids together have one birthday party, all of there friends kids all share a birthday with one cake and little to no presents. The depression has hit all of the families so hard they don’t have enough money for individual birthday

James J. Braddock once said, " I have to believe that once things are bad, I have to change them". The movie Cinderella Man is about Braddock rising from a poor, unsuccessful boxer to the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The historical background to his life and career was during the same time period as the Great Depression. James Braddock was not always the boxer he is now known to be, in the 1920’s he had lost one third of his fights and people referred to him as a “bum” which is the lowest name you could label a boxer at the time. Despite a broken hand and the hatred the crowd brought upon him, Braddock never hesitated to do his best on the rink. However, when the

In Cinderella Man, James Braddock and his family demonstrate that the Great Depression was a tough time of unemployment and bankruptcy. On October Twenty Ninth, Nineteen Twenty Nine, the stock market crashed, leaving millions of the United States with little, to no money left in their pockets. Not only that, but the employment rate went up to twenty five percent, making it difficult for poverty-stricken people to find well needed jobs. It was challenging for anyone to provide for their family or put food on the table everyday. Many families ended up in “hoovervilles,” which were shantytowns that accommodated the homeless. Most hoovervilles were particularly dangerous. In relation, James Braddock in Cinderella Man, loses his children once the Great Depression hits, because he can not afford to keep them fed and cared for. James and his family has to move to a poor neighborhood because he could no longer afford his house. To try and provide for his family and find income, James Braddock works at the docks where only a few men get picked each day to do strenuous work for low amounts of money. He pursues the job, even with a

The Great Depression was a time of economic loss. People lost their homes, and lost everything they had earned. It affected the middle and low class americans, and the rich become richer and the poor become poorer. People in upper classes even dropped to the lower class. It began on October 29, 1929, and the leading cause was the crash of the stock market. Everyone who put their money into stocks had lost everything they had, including the Braddock family. In the movie Cinderella james braddock and his family show the struggle of life during the great depression. Overall Cinderella Man showed many of the different aspects we covered, and was worth the watch during the class.

The 1930s was one of the most challenging times in US history, where the Great Depression caused millions of Americans to suffer through hardships because of the economy. Many people were out of work and unemployed, and the government at the time, believed that the best option was to stay out of its affairs, leaving the struggling people hung out to dry. It was not until Franklin Roosevelt was elected president, that the state of the country began to change. And that was due to the creation of the New Deal; a plan to alleviate the state of the country, providing help through increased government spending and programs, that led to its eventual recovery after the second World War.

The Great Depression had resulted in a lot of people suffering. The horrifying event lasted from 1929 to 1939. It was the worst economic downturn in history. The Great Depression happened in October 1929 when the stock market crashed. It had wiped out millions of investors and sent Wall Street into panic. In the movie “Cinderella Man,” it tells the story of James Braddock, a boxer, and his struggles throughout the depression. It shows him steady on his feet in the 1920’s, suffering from the outcome of the depression, and then how he got back on his feet. “Cinderella Man” portrays the struggles of the Great Depression through James Braddock’s harsh complications.

“On the morning of October 29, 1929, panicked voices shouted over one another. Here and there, men leaned against the walls, hands over their faces as if trying to shut out the scene. In the street outside, a crowd had gathered, trying to learn the news. A man staggered out the door, clutching his hat in both hands. He looked as though he might weep. “It’s gone,“ he whispered, so quietly only the few closest to him heard. “It’s all gone.”# The term ‘Great Depression’ according to Kristin Brennan evokes black-and-white images of thin men in threadbare suits and worn-out shoes selling five-cent apples on city streets, of “grim-faced women lined up three deep to collect bread and milk at relief stations.”# The Great Depression of the 1930s

The 1920’s was a decade of discovery for America. As mentioned in “who was roaring in the twenties? —Origins of the great depression,” by Robert S. McElvaine America suffered with the great depression due to several factors but it managed to stay prosperous at the end. In “America society and culture in the 1920’s,” by David A. Shannon there was much more to the great depression. It was a time of prosperity an economic change. Women and men were discovering who they were and their value to society in “The Revolution in Morals,” by Gilman M. Ostrander. Even if Racism still existed as mentioned in “ The Tribal Twenties,” by John Higham, the 1920’s still was time of change that affects people today.

The film Cinderella Man was about a boxer name James Braddock and his struggles through the great depression. Through boxing Braddock gave hope to the people who faced the great depression just as he did. He gave them a type of hope that nurtured them to thinking that they would persevere through the hardship just as he did with his boxing career. From an audience perspective this film earned a 5 out of 5 stars rating because director Ron Howard served his purpose well by not only developing a boxing film that did not just only acknowledge the perseverance about the sport side of things. The director Howard showed adversity and many aspects in the film such as Braddock’s struggles with his wife, kids, career, and friends. In essence Howard was able to incorporate how the great depression played a magnificent role in everything that occurred.

“personal assertion of existential meaning in a universe of potential cosmic meaninglessness” (Mast, 246). In the adventure films and Westerns, heroes are willing to challenge authority for their personal beliefs and feelings. They take actions based on individual beliefs, definitions of right and wrong, and the urge to complete their personal goals and dreams. The helpless antiheroes in screwball comedies present the situation during the Great Depression from another aspect. They cannot make choices themselves because of others’ intervention, and unfortunate things just happen to them. The denial of humanness is one feature of antiheroes. Powerlessness of antiheroes in the ridiculous world definitely reflects the desperate situation faced by the Americans during the Great Depression.