Ali

Synopsis: In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of du

Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport

Director(s): Michael Mann

Actors: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles

Production: Columbia Pictures

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 25 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.8
Metacritic:: 65
Rotten Tomatoes:: 67%

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: R
Year:: 2001
: 157 min
: $58,183,966
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Thank you very kindly.
Ladies and gentlemen,
right now we'd like to introduce...
the star of our show, the young man
you've all been waiting for.
So let's all get together and welcome
him to the stage with a great big hand.
How about it for Sam Cooke?
Before we do anything, we'd like
to say how are you doing out there?
- Is everyone feeling all right?
- Yeah!
How are you doing?
- You doing okay?
- Yeah!
- You two doing okay?
- Yeah!
Well, I ask you one more time.
How you doing?
Yeahh!
What you running from, son?
We got a call.
I'm gonna bust you up.
Beat your ass
like I was your daddy.
For those of you
who think you came here today...
to hear us tell you
like these Negro leaders do...
that your times
will just get better...
that we shall
overcome someday...
I say to you,
you came to the wrong place.
Because your times will never
get better unless you make them better.
Those of you who think you came here
to hear us tell you...
to turn the other cheek
to the brutality of the white man...
and this system of injustice
that's in place right here in America...
you think you're gonna come here
and hear us tell you...
to go out there and beg
for a place at their lunch counter...
again, I say you came
to the wrong place.
We don't teach you
to turn the other cheek in the South.
And we don't teach you
to turn the other cheek in the North.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
teaches you to obey the law...
to Cary yourselves
in a respectable way...
in a proud
Afro-American way.
But at the same time,
we teach you...
that anyone puts
their hand on you...
brother, you do your best to see they
don't put their hand on anybody else...
again.
Time.
Just like that, Daddy.
Never jump in one place.
Bad for the heart.
Forwards, backwards, sideways.
That's the most important thing.
I'm called Bundini.
Rhymes with Houdini.
He was a Jew too.
Some people call me Fast Black.
Some call me Daddy Mac.
Gave Sugar Ray Robinson
my power for seven years.
My voodoo. My magic.
Now Shorty done sent me here
to work for you.
- Who's Shorty?
- I call him Shorty.
Call him Shorty
'cause he like 'em circumcised.
Original people. Like Moses.
And I was a babe in a basket too.
Born on a doorstep with a note
across my chest that read...
"You do the best
you can for him, world."
I wanna be your inspiration.
Your motivator in your corner.
Can I be in your corner,
young man?
Time!
Be the invisible man
as soon as he swings.
Get personal with him.
Sonny Liston,
you ain't no champ! You a chump!
Float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee.
Oh!
Rumble, young man, rumble.
Y'all wanna lose y' all money?
Then you bet it on Sonny.
He know I'm great.
He will fall in eight.
Come on, you big, ugly bear.
I'll whup you right now.
Two-ten and a half.
Two-ten and a half!.
The challenger, Cassius Clay,
two hundred and ten and a half pounds.
- Man, you sure that's right?
- That's what the weight is.
Old, ugly bear, come on.
Let's go.
You got these folks fooled. I ain't
scared of ya! I ain't scared of ya!
Two hundred and eighteen.
Two hundred and eighteen.
Sonny Liston,
the champion of the world.
Two hundred and eighteen pounds.
- Pounds of what?
- Pounds of ugly.
That man's so ugly,
when he sweat...
the sweat run backwards off his forehand
just to stay away from his face.
Come on, you big, ugly bear!
I'll turn you into a rug!
Keep talkin'.
I'm gonna fuck you up.
If you whup me...
I'll crawl out of the ring and take
the first jet airplane out the country.
- Is that a promise, Mr. Clay?
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