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The biggest inaccuracy was the portrayal of Max Baer.
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On the official website of James Braddock, a list of his fight record is displayed, including the dates, locations, and outcomes of every fight of his professional career. The fights were accurately depicted in chronological order as well. When listening to the Baer fight, she was described as “gripping the arms of her chair in front of the radio…silently listening with her hands clenched in her lap”. In the film she was more reluctant to listen to the fight on the radio, but she has been described as very pro-active and supportive of her husband’s fights. The wife, Adrian (played by Talia Shire) could not bear to watch a single punch thrown at Rocky. Although a little soft for the boxer that was portrayed in the film, the opposing expressions of feeling derives from Braddock’s fatherly intuition.Īnd what of the character of Mae, and how accurately was she seen by Ron Howard? Her loyalty to her husband was there, but she seemed to also fit the stereotype of every boxer’s wife portrayed in movies. In actuality, Mae expressed in a biography that Braddock had “broken down” emotionally. For cinematic purposes, this was a scene of a man who seemed to lose control not only of his family, but of his masculinity. When Mae had to send the children away to other family members because they could not support them, Braddock expressed his anger and disappointment to her for not consulting him first. His Irish-Catholic background played a major role in the values he held onto, specifically the one of family. Ĭinderella Man did an excellent job capturing Braddock’s character during this ordeal as well. The inability to support his family led Braddock to become one of 600,000 people in New Jersey to fall in line and apply for government relief.
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It was rare for Braddock to get more than two days of work a week.
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The movie emphasizes the struggle men had in finding work on the docks, where only five or six men would be picked for the whole day. This statistic was depicted in the movie through one scene where Jim Braddock briskly walks through the cold and over a newspaper headline with that startling number. “The worst point in the United States was 1933 when more than 15 million Americans – one-quarter of the labor force – were unemployed”.