It happened in Depression-era in New Orleans. A strong streetfighter Chaney hooks up with a small-gambler Speed who borrows money from other people to bet on Chaney's fight. Chaney is an all-time winning as he's so strong but his characteristic is way too quiet. Chaney wins all fights and Speed takes away all the winnings by gambling. For one last time that Speed has to give back the old debts to the mafia but he has no money so they have a deal of having Chaney fight with another streetfighter from another town (who they thought was stronger than Chaney) Now guess who won? Of course my Chaney!
I think this movie aims to tell us about the working coditions of some of the factories back then and that prosperity runs parallel to morality. Honesty is one of them. Chaney has it all. He helps Speed because he thought he doesn't have to help but that he should. After the problems have been solved he gave quite amount of money to Speed and Poe. The good thing is that Chaney's morality has affected Speed and Poe that they wanted to start doing something new and legal. It also shows that when a man fights, he should fight with dignity and must be able to accept the fact of losing.
Fighting on the boat?!? Well I guess it's just because the American Law has no law against fighting on the boat so that it starts off on the boat? But if those pigs catch them fighting somewhere else - they're in trouble. Remember that there's always "holes" between laws.
It's the third movie of Charles Bronson I've seen so far! He's cool!
Not bad peeps... y'all should get to watch this.
1 comment:
I love Charles Bronson but most of his movies have really weak story lines. This one is no exception. What exactly was the story line? Fight the good fight? Honesty and hard work convinces others to be honest and work hard? Not sure.
You did great on the story line. It is as good as any I could have come up with. What impressed me about this movie is its depiction of the Great Depression era. There were guys moving around all over the country trying to make a buck as best they can. This can be seen in movies like Paper Moon, O Brother and others.
The movie says something about the American spirit of never giving up or never say die. It also says to me, loud and clear, that one is never to old to continue in their chosen profession :-).
Great blogging Charlene. I am going to load you up on movies quickly so you can have more fun than you ever dreamed of having at ABAC.
Now watch and blog, blog, blog.
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