In the new film “Big George Foreman,” the story of the young boxer’s childhood and rise to fame has a tense and turbulent charm, but the energy goes out of the movie as he ascends to the championship.
With “Big George Foreman,” the director George Tillman, Jr., accepts the challenge of depicting a protagonist who is also, essentially, his boss—this is a bio-pic of a celebrity who is also one of its executive producers. Tillman tells the story in a way that divides along practical and artistic lines.
Nancy asks two things of him: to control his fighting and to thank God for the family’s blessings. But George is overcome by rage and uses his formidable strength to sustain his pride. He perceives little to be grateful for, dismissing religion and putting faith in his own efforts, such as they are. Here, too, the details that Tillman brings to life are vivid and invigorating.
George’s mother is appalled that he plans to devote his life to violence and asks God to help him; in response, George asks what God has to do with it. George, driven by the urgency of personal and familial need and his own inner fury, wants to make it big, fast. By 1967, Doc sets forth a five-year plan to get George into the Olympics in 1972; instead, George sets his goal on the 1968 Olympics, in Mexico City, where he indeed wins the gold medal in the heavyweight division.
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