Great White Hope
Great White Hope of a movie with an eloquent and rather poetic performance from Sylvester Stallone in an articulate and literate script. This one is about growing old on one's own terms and the difficulty of sons living in the shadows of illustrious fathers.
Cultural tensions are subtly explored in the implicit discussion of whether Black fighters are better than White, especially because a Caucasian Heavyweight Champion of the boxing world is decidedly anachronistic. This is bundled up with the fact that the two fighters are from different generations; giving the whole enterprise an old age having a go at youth sensibility.
The love story is touching, tender and understated; rendering this as nostalgia with a human face and into a fairy tale told in a realistic environment that is thoroughly unashamed of its own clichés.
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