Fight for Your Right

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-fighter-20101209

I love this writer. He is wrong though.

Peter Travers has been all over the ins and outs of movies in the last decade, and he is (most of the time) spot on. His analysis of The Fighter is just the same. Markie Mark Wahlberg, after training for four years and working hard to get the movie production off the ground, is a stunning “Irish” Micky Ward (not Micky with an ‘e’). And then there’s the Funk Bunch…

Wahlberg is surrounded by actors and actresses with breathtaking performances. Amy Adams. Christian Bale. Melissa Leo. Directed by David O. Russell. After seeing the movie, I instantly envisioned Christian Bale receiving the nomination for an Oscar for best supporting actor, and then winning the Oscar. He was that good. Remember how huge and ripped Bale was in the Batman movies? Well he lost over 30 pounds to play the role of Micky Ward’s crack head half brother, Dickie Eklund. And Bale, being British, mastered the Lowell, Massachusetts semi-Boston accent. No problem. Travers uses the same word I would have… “Phenomenal.”

But Travers, like I said, is wrong about something. Please do not read further if you have not seen the film, because I am about to reveal a very small part of the movie, so don’t read the rest if you haven’t seen the movie…

In the film, Bale’s character is shown being filmed by HBO in what he says is about his comeback as a fighter. Now in my opinion, Eklund knew the whole time that the movie from HBO was an expose on crack addiction, but Travers seems to think that Eklund really thought it was on his comeback and then was “devastated” to see it was on crack addiction. I believe that Travers is dead wrong.

Why would Eklund talk about crack on camera and smoke crack on camera if he thought the piece was on him and boxing? When his girlfriend asked the cameramen what the piece was on, Eklund buried his head in his hands as the cameramen told her it was an expose on crack addiction. Travers. You’re wrong.

When reading his article, this bothered me.

I loved this movie. I recommend it to everyone.

I hope my hero doesn’t read the whole article if he hasn’t seen it……

Drew Harris is My Hero.

-B