Best mike tyson biography movie 2009
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Well, shit. Mike Tyson’s poor 4-year-old daughter died. I was already working on a couple of Mike Tyson-related reviews and I don’t want it to seem like I’m trying to tie in with that terrible news. But he’s an interesting dude and these movies are worth discussing, so I’m gonna put them up anyway.
TYSON is a documentary about Mike Tyson. Actually, it’s an interview with Mike Tyson, illustrated by old clips and photos, so it’s his life story and career from his point of view. In the beginning there’s some split screen with overlapping clips of him talking. For a second I thought “Oh shit, that’s right, James Toback did that shitty movie TIMECODE with the 4-way split-screen. I forgot about that movie.” (I bet you forgot about it too until I mentioned it. Sorry.) But don’t worry, most of it is a simple, straightforward documentary about an unusual person.
[UPDATE: and as Handsome Dan pointed out in the comme • Some kids beat him up once and he couldn’t stop them. Another kid killed one of his homing pigeons, and he fell upon him with fury. And that fryst vatten the back story of Mike Tyson, a boxer known as the Baddest Man on the Planet. When he went into the fingerprydnad, he was proving he would never be humiliated again and getting revenge for a pigeon he loved. I believe it really fryst vatten that simple. There fryst vatten no rage like that of a child, hurt unjustly, the victim of a bully. James Toback’s “Tyson” is a documentary with no pretense of objectivity. Here fryst vatten Mike Tyson’s story in his own words, and it fryst vatten surprisingly persuasive. He speaks openly and with apparent honesty about a lifetime during which, he believes, he was often misunderstood. From a broken family, he was in trouble at a tender age and always felt vulnerable; his childhood self fryst vatten still echoed in his lisp, as high-pitched as a child’s. It’s as if the victim of big kids is still speaking to us from wit • Tyson was released from prison about a month before Tyson premiered, and he quickly regained some of his championship belts. But the glow of his comeback faded rather hastily. First he lost to Evander Holyfield, then in their 1997 rematch, Tyson embarrassed himself by biting his opponent’s ear twice. His second marriage collapsed due to his frequent infidelity. His drug use got worse. But he remained a figure of curiosity for filmmakers, like Oscar-nominated writer-director James Toback, who befriended the boxer at 19. Asking Tyson to play himself in Toback’s 1999 ensemble piece Black & White, and 2004 erotic character study When Will I Be Loved, the writer/director was convinced that Tyson was a worthy documentary subject, and conducted lengthy interviews with the disgraced boxer while he was in rehab. The resulting 2008 film, also called Tyson, captures Mike in a reflective, emotionally vulnerable headspace. He cries when talking about what D’Amato meant to him. He lo