Bleed for This got me thinking, why so many boxing movies with white protagonists?

[Roland Coltrane]

Was it good?

haven't watched it yet but I heard Usher did a decent job as Sugar Ray Leonard

 

[MJ Truth]

Because having a white hero, particularly one who beats up Black people during the movie, is an easy way to get greenlit and a $50M+ budget in Hollywood.

 

[BlackAchilles]

Same reason as every other type of flick

 

[8WON6]

can we get that Jack Johnson movie tho?

 

[Anti-Anime]

You can't have a white patriarchy without your media consistently putting them in the most masculine roles possible

 

[Roland Coltrane]

@Ol' Otis I'm not even ten minutes in and they got the Duran character as a kid knocking out black kids and they segue to his early boxing career as an adult and they got him ONLY knocking out black dudes

oh, and they got him hollering at the blonde white-looking Panamanian(and I know that part is real life) but I'm sensing an agenda here eerily similar to the usual boxing movies if they catch my drift


I hope they do right by Sugar Ray Leonard

 

[kingdarius]

haven't watched it yet but I heard Usher did a decent job as Sugar Ray Leonard

it was solid....chick that plays his wife is my boo thang now ....bish look just like that porno slut lexi belle but she's even badder

 

[Roland Coltrane]

can we get that Jack Johnson movie tho?

the pure unadulterated fury if that movie gets made

the possibilities

 

[Roland Coltrane]

it was solid....chick that plays his wife is my boo thang now ....bish look just like that porno slut lexi belle but she's even badder

it's 2016 and the boxing scenes shouldn't have looked THAT fake breh

 

[Dad]

I feel you but they cast that cac perfectly cuz he's got the most punchable face in Hollywood

 

[kingdarius]

it's 2016 and the boxing scenes shouldn't have looked THAT fake breh

didnt see a problem with it not a boxing aficionado either tho

 

[dish lowry]

micky ward did have an interesting story though...but its always the same hard-luck, inspirational type story...they should make one about livingstone bramble, he was one of the more entertaining fighters & was great at pysching out his opponents....

 

[Ol’Otis]

@Ol' Otis I'm not even ten minutes in and they got the Duran character as a kid knocking out black kids and they segue to his early boxing career as an adult and they got him ONLY knocking out black dudes

oh, and they got him hollering at the blonde white-looking Panamanian(and I know that part is real life) but I'm sensing an agenda here eerily similar to the usual boxing movies if they catch my drift


I hope they do right by Sugar Ray Leonard

Typical Hollywood shyt

 

[Roland Coltrane]

micky ward did have an interesting story though...but its always the same hard-luck, inspirational type story...they should make one about livingstone bramble, he was one of the more entertaining fighters & was great at pysching out his opponents....

the only thing I know about Mickey Ward is Floyd put the beats on him

 

[Big Boss]

Because having a white hero, particularly one who beats up Black people during the movie, is an easy way to get greenlit and a $50M+ budget in Hollywood.