Max Baer
Max
Baer
fue campeón de los pesos completos cuando solo tenía 24 años y fue el papá de Max Baer Jr., el actor que representa a Jethro en Los Beverly Ricos (The
Beverly Hillbillies). En la entrevista de abajo Jr. y su hermana reniegan de la película de Ron Howard, Cinderella Man, que representa a Max Baer como un bruto violento.
Para saber: Cinderella Man
y en vocabulario: fuming y boorish
He didn´t give a
damn about what I have to say because he had already pre-designed in his mind
that Max Bear was going to be a
villain…
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| Max Baer |
Maximilian
Adelbert Baer (11 de febrero de 1909 - 21 de
noviembre de 1959) fue campeón mundial de los pesados desde el 14 de junio de
1934 hasta el 13 de junio de 1935. Sus peleas fueron dos veces (1933 victoria
sobre Max Schmeling, pérdida de 1935
ante James J. Braddock) calificadas
como Peleas del Año por The Ring Magazine. Baer también fue árbitro de boxeo, y tuvo papeles ocasionales en
cine o televisión. Fue padre del actor Max
Baer Jr. Baer está clasificado #
22 en la lista de la revista Ring de
los 100 mejores pegadores de todos los tiempos.
According to his
son, actor/director Max Baer Jr. (who
was born seven years after the incident):
“My father cried
about what happened to Frankie Campbell.
He had nightmares. In reality, my father was one of the kindest, gentlest men
you would ever hope to meet. He treated boxing the way today's professional
wrestlers do wrestling: part sport, mostly showmanship. He never deliberately
hurt anyone.”
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| Max Baer Jr., 1962 |
In the case of Campbell, Baer was charged with
manslaughter. Baer was eventually
acquitted of all charges, but the California
State Boxing Commission still banned him from any in-ring activity within the
state for the next year. Baer gave
purses from succeeding bouts to Campbell's
family, but lost four of his next six fights.
Boxer
Max Baer, Pt. 1
The story of
Sacramento heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer, specifically his portrayal in
the film Cinderella Man.
— … the villain
of that movie is a Sacramental legend, as KCRA 3 sports director Ron Hyde
explains the family of Max Baer is fuming
over the movie´s portrayal of the former heavyweight champ.
—Ronny Howard actually
used the name Max Baer and created a fictitious person to be the villain. (Max
Baer´s son)
—He didn´t need
to do this to a man that was total opposite of what he portrayed. Everybody
loved him.
—Max Baer was
born in Nebraska in 1909 but eventually settled in Sacramento so he could be
closed to his manager Ansel Hoffman. At 25 he became the heavyweight champion
of the world, a popular and entertaining champion. His larger-than-life persona
endeared him millions, but film critics have used words like boorish and brutal to describe
the unscreened Max Baer.
—The
characterization that the person was, another form of Mr. T, from the Rocky 3
movie, was absolutely correct. There were no redeeming qualities in the Max
Baer on the film or in the film Cinderella Man at all.
—A tragic turn
in Baer´s career perhaps helped fuel a villainous portrayal of Max in the
movie. In the summer of 1930 Bear knocked out Frankie Campbell during the fifth
round of their fight in San Francisco. Campbell later died of his injuries. In
the film the Baer character boasts of the death he caused but in real life the
sorrow that Max Baer felt was so strong it haunted him the rest of his life.
—It hurt him
terribly that Frankie Campbell died in the ring that I don´t think he got over that.
(Maudie Goodwin, Max Baer´s daughter)
—Baer was so
affected by Campbell´s death that he quit fighting for a stretch. He began raising money for Campbell´s
family, enough to put Campbell´s kids through college. Bear returned to the
ring culminated with a world title, which he then lost to Braddock, the Cinderella Man. As for Ron Howard he´s
been mostly silent, regarding the treatment of Baer. His spokesperson released
a statement that says, quote: “The script was written from the point of view of
the Braddock family. To them Max Baer was a real threat. Ron felt that was how
the character needed to be drafted.”
—Max Baer was
not sadistic. He was a fun-loving person.
—Local historian
Bill of Fair Oaks knew both Braddock and Baer as well as their families.
—He would not
have been the type at all it´s portrayed in the movie. He was just not that way
and everybody liked him even Cinderella Man liked him.
—That´s one of
the reasons I believe why Ronnie Howard never contacted me. He didn´t give a
damn about what I have to say because he had already pre-designed in his mind
that Max Bear was going to be a villain and he certainly wasn´t going to get a
villain description from me…
Vocabulario
Fuming: fume: to be very angry, sometimes without expressing it:
I saw her a week
after they'd had the argument and she was still fuming.
Boorish: boor: a person who is rude and does not consider other people's
feelings
Para
saber
Cinderella
Man
es una película de 2005. Protagonizada por Russell Crowe, y Renée Zellweger en
los papeles principales.
James
J. Braddock sufre los efectos de la Gran Depresión, después de haber sido boxeador
profesional y perdido toda su fortuna. Trabaja como estibador en el puerto y su
familia vive hacinada en la miseria. Su mánager cree en él y le impulsa a
reintentar suerte en el boxeo a pesar de no ser ya joven. Su mujer se opone al
boxeo. Le llega una segunda oportunidad en la cual tendrá que enfrentarse contra
Max Baer, un brutal boxeador que ha
matado a dos contrincantes con una potente derecha en el cuadrilátero. (Síntesis
del argumento)
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