WTF Really Happened to The Fighter?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2022
- David O. Russell's The Fighter is arguably the director's most acclaimed movie. It tells the true story of boxer Mickey Ward and his older brother, Dicky Eklund, played by Mark Wahlberg and (in an Oscar-winning performance) Christian Bale. While based on a true story, you might very well be surprised by how many liberties were taken with some of the micro-and-macro details in the film while still honoring the overall legacy of the scrappy Lowell underdog and his embattled, drug-addled half-brother Dickie Eklund. To be clear up-front, most of what transpires in The Fighter genuinely occurred in how it's depicted onscreen, with incredible efforts made to recreate the precise in-ring action as it truly happened.
However, in the interest of time and to increase the riveting dramatic stakes of Ward as a true underdog, O. Russell altered several details regarding fighters, won-loss records, weigh-ins, knockouts, and several other glaring and minute details that may have gone over casual fight fans' heads, yet have seriously called into question the movie's overall integrity. And that doesn't include the spate of out-of-ring changes, mainly relating to Dickie's delusions and self-destructive dalliances.
So let's dive into David O. Russell's The Fighter, which, even if it took some liberties, remains a classic in the big-screen fight genre and certainly ranks as a high point in Russell, Bale and Wahlberg's careers. This episode of WTF Happened to this Movie is written by Jake Dee, edited by Adam Walton, produced by Taylor James Johnson and narrated by Steve Seigh.
Let us know in the comments what you think of The Fighter and the place it holds in the filmography of all involved.
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The whole cast killed it in this movie😤
Agreed
Dickie wasn't running from the cops when he jumped out the window. His mother and family were out front and he didn't want his mother to see him there.
Always watch this movie when nothing else is on. It just has a replayable charm to it. Kind of like The Martian (Matt Damon, Dir Ridley Scott) for me
Agreed
I believe it’s pronounced “Mah-shun”
Bale, gave a masterpiece performance.
An 8.5 lb difference is actually *enormous* in combat sports! On that note, it's also interesting--and odd--that training for this film was the reason for Wahlberg's famous home weight room. In reality boxers, unlike wrestlers or grapplers, do not tend to have big muscles at all. If he was interested in realism, Wahlberg should have *lost* muscle to get down to Mickey's weight, like he famously was willing to in Boogie Nights. Apparently they decided to make him look more like a movie fighter than a real one, however.
Christian Bale and Amy Adams were phenomenal . Mark did a good job, but I believe the supporting cast made him better.
Christian Bale did an amazing job in this film. He makes you FEEL like a crack addicted ex-boxer lol
Lowell, MA was my backyard growing up. Ward was and still is the Man to everyone in and around Lowell. Such a scrapper, just like the people in and around Lowell.
It did for boxing what Warrior did for MMA. Both were superb films.
I was lucky enough to attend Ward vs Gatti 1. It was the greatest professional fight I have ever seen in person.
That was a good one. Great movie. I'm not a huge boxing fan so the discrepancies don't bother me really
This movie is a hidden gem! Great cast, and just a damn good movie 💯😀👍👏
Dude it's not a "hidden gem" it won Oscar's! Everyone knows this movie kills it it all categories... this is as far from "hidden" as you can get - however, Yes, it definitely is a "Gem"
A lot of times your corner will tell you (the fighter) that you're down on the judges score cards to get that extra fire out of you.
How did it only make 129 million it’s such a classic.
I was disapointed the film didn't cover the Gatti fights which I know take place sometime after the events of the film but considering how they moved timeline for other things, it would have been better to end the film with those fight as they better represent the type of fighter/legend Ward is than just some illegitimate world title fight.
Good friend of mine worked on the mom when she was dying. I was told it was uncanny how exact the sisters and mom were portrayed in the movie.
those Gatti fights bro... my god. and this movie was dope im glad boxing fights knew exaggerations
How the wars with gatti we're not in this were crazy to me best fights of the decade
Yep, they should've found actors with the same birthdays for authenticity
turn down that AWFUL MUSIC PLEASE!!
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An Arturo Gatti movie would be better movie than Wahlberg's "The Fighter". Gatti's boxing career and demise has so much story telling value then Ward's career
Awesome video!
This is a movie I only just saw for the first time a couple years ago how the hell I missed it I don't know. Great flick
Basically, the real life characters lives was so uninteresting that the director and screenwriter had to dramatically make sh*t up.
I understand adding elements to a biopic for dramatic purposes, but when 50% of the story is pure fiction, then, what does that tell you about the person the movie is based on?
"What're you doin running back here like a silverback gorilla??"😂👍
Lol that noise Dickie made when he jumped... I rewind it every single time.
Mark kills every movie he's in.
Facts
I can’t believe he hasn’t won multiple Oscar’s
Just bit nit picking here, but you got the the age differences wrong at the 3:35 mark wrong. Wahlberg is 11 years younger, and Bale 14 years younger than Leo.
Christian Bale stole the show!!
It's NOT "lo-well" it's "Lowell" pronounced as one word... I know Massachusetts towns can be tough to say, but this is an easy one compared to others
Watch: The Shooters Gallery Podcast starring Boxing Legend "The Pride of Lowell" Dicky Eklund 🔗
This movie is a masterpiece for purely for THAT scene 🤤
Hey doesn't YT Rock316AE uses this music on his video?
Did he say no one ever saw a WBO title belt as legitimate? 🤔
Wow I didn't know there was alot of stuff they got wrong in this movie
The WBO counts as a proper title, The WBU is definitely Mickey Mouse lol
Let's go notigang 💪
Great movie 😎🤟
Women should be characters, not simply plot points for men
I wished they have made it about his Gatti fight.
Underated
I actually know one of Mickey Wards lifelong friends and training partners. He’s a former Lowell police officer who was actually in the beginning of the movie lol. Really good guy
ERIC WAYNE!
Though the timeline is all out of wack the film is one of the better boxing movies out there. I always wanted to see a sequel for Arturo Gatti but unfortunately we never got it
I feel like this was written by a bot
Besides being an all time great movie, it definitely got the feel of MA deteriorating old mill cities and the people that live there... spot on
Omg ppl need to chill unless it’s call a documentary then things will be jazzed up it’s a movie
The music mix on this is a bit high.. makes it hard to hear what you're saying especially near the end
Wait so these types of movies aren’t 100% accurate?? 😮
Verisimilitude. Nice word power 😎🧐
A good vid about a good movie, but I am just about losing it every time he calls David O. Russell "O'Russell"! A fitting tribute to Irish Mickey, and a pretty clever joke to make.
Damn Charlene looks like she could beat Mickey worse than gotti could. In the movie she’s half his size and she’s actually got a few inches and 40lbs on him.
Just remember high on crack street as a kid
WTF happened to the way you pronounce Lowell
RIP O'Keefe ❤
Lowell Massachusetts is pronounced Lole not Low El the pronunciation is getting worse here I thought the pronunciation of Michael Crichton ( CRISHON) for the Jurassic Park video was disrespectful enough 😂
Watch: The Shooters Gallery Podcast starring Boxing Legend "The Pride of Lowell" Dicky Eklund 🔗
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JoBlo is an absolute dupe if he believes most sports movies about true events strictly follow the facts. Is he serious?
The real bullshit alert is how you pronounce “Lo-well” lol
You sell your rights to Hollywood and your story is just a start off point for their story. Their story is not the truth but you must realize it’s their story, you sold it to them. Without them your story does not make a memorable movie. It’s up to you to set people straight not them. I don’t agree what they do but again the rights were sold and a story was told they not only made all parties money but got Ward and Eckland some publicity.
Who plays his sisters? THEY WERE SO GROSS AND FANTASTIC!
Excuse me the fighter movie scenes about the movie so stop answering the question
Good movie, but this is a boring truth to fiction retelling
Christian Bale is superb in this movie. Yet another great British (born in Haverfordwest Wales) actor who can do a convincing U.S. accent.
Damien Lewis is another
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I quit because of the terrible background music. TURN IT DOWN, MAN (or off actually).
Is your microphone a soup can and a piece of string? Unlistenable.
Hbo
WTF happened to this movie? Simple: Marky Mark (I'm annoyed by just writing that name...) is in it. Top of my list of most hated actors ever, along with his also dumb faced and expressionless brother.
Tell us how you really feel 😂