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    “Cinderella Man” is a movie starring the characters James J. Braddock, the main boxer, Mae Braddock, James’ wife, Joe Gould, James’ boxing manager, and Max Baer, James’ hardest opponent. This story took place in New York and New Jersey during the 1930s, when the Depression struck America. This film is an action film for the intensity of the boxing and fighting, but also a drama film for the misery and problems that came with the Depression and the rivalry between James and his opponents. “Cinderella

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    Issues In Cinderella Man

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    In Cinderella Man, Ron Howard illustrates the events that occurred in the life of James J. Braddock, a boxer in the early 1900s who overcame rigorous challenges and became the world heavyweight boxing champion. While many people believe the film was made purely to entertain, it actually displays many prevalent issues in today’s society, with one of these issues being the importance of maintaining a proper appearance. Although it isn’t blatantly displayed throughout the film, Ron Howard demonstrates

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    Cinderella Man Essay

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    Cinderella Man: The Peoples Princess Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man is a cinematic work that bears the ability to strike the very core of any sentient being on planet earth. The film, which outlines the life and times of boxer James J. Braddock, features seemingly indomitable highs in the boxing career of The Bulldog of Burgen as well as his precipitous decent into squalor during the Great Depression. During the depression Jim Braddock is reduced to a shell of the man that he once was. He not only

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    The Man Who Left His Glass Slipper in the Ring Cinderella Man was a movie based on a true story during The Great Depression. The Great Depression began when the stock market crashed in October of 1929. During this time people lost their jobs, homes, families, and their basic way of living. Banks collapsed, and the drought killed most of the crops. In the film the setting is New York about four years after the Depression set in. James J. Braddock gets a call to adventure when he realizes that he

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    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

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    Cinderella Man Analysis

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    The movie Cinderella Man is a biographical film of boxer James J. Braddock that illustrates his struggle through the Great Depression. Movies often exaggerate the suffering of the Great Depression or just gloss over it, but Cinderella Man accurately shows the prevailing attitude of the time through the facial expressions of the actors and the obstacles they overcome. In the film, the people on the street and in the crowd in the boxing arenas appear worried and never smile. The only time that people

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    Cinderella Man Analysis

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    Cinderella Man the movie This movie took place September 25. 1933 which was four years into the Great Depression. The first impression I got was he was a happy man, was rich and made enough money from wrestling, I was wrong. His family included a wife, a daughter, and two sons. They lived in a run down apartment and didn't have enough money to pay for bills and there milk payment was past due. The daughter, Ariel woke up one morning and wanted breakfast she ate and was still hungry the father convinced

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    Cinderella Man was an incredibly magnificent and uplifting film that followed the life of the “Bulldog”, later entitled “Cinderella Man”, starring Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock, the American heavyweight boxer. Primarily, Cinderella Man embodies strength and willpower as once-undefeated heavyweight fighter, Braddock’s loses started to rapidly accumulate, so bad that he was released from his boxing contract and was merciless impeded from fighting. Correspondingly, deprived of work the bulldog

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    Representation of the Great Depression in Cinderella Man The movie Cinderella Man was about life in the Great Depression from a boxer's point of view. The focus of the movie was on the protagonist, James Braddock; a father who had to accept jobs on the docks and become a boxer again so he could earn money to buy food and pay the bills. The movie highlighted the conditions for the homeless, the trough in the economy, and the struggle to support a family. The movie was successful in being a true and

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    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

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