It feels so different now that I know who acted in this movie.
I watched this movie in 1981 and I thought that the lead actor was Sugar Ray Leonard. You see, after the Ali era of boxing came the Sugar Ray Leonard era and then the Mike Tyson era. This movie was released during the Sugar Ray era and I was excited to see Sugar Ray and Ali in the same movie.
However, I had a discussion on Nairaland with Caveatemptor in 2017 and I wrote about this movie and he wrote about another movie that Sugar Ray had done, only for us to discover in the course of our discussion that Sugar Ray did not act in any of those movies. The actor was actually Leon Isaac Kennedy, who actually looks like Sugar Ray.
This movie was highly entertaining because of its boxing scenes, the presence of Muhammad Ali, the moral story line and the immoral scenes. It's about a boxer who gains fame and fortune, but the fame and fortune get to his head and he has to find his way back.
Leon Isaac Kennedy acted opposite his real life wife.
(Caution, there's a little bit of nudity in the "immoral" section of the movie).
The final match reminded me of Sugar Ray vs Duran.
Burnley have said they "strongly" condemn those responsible for flying a "White Lives Matter" banner over their Premier League match with Manchester City.
The football club branded the banner "offensive" after it was towed by an aircraft above the Etihad Stadium on Monday evening.
The small plane trailing the words "White Lives Matter Burnley" flew over the pitch shortly after kick-off.
In a statement, Burnley said: "We wish to make it clear that those responsible are not welcome at Turf Moor.
"This, in no way, represents what Burnley Football Club stands for and we will work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and issue lifetime bans."
They added: "We apologise unreservedly to the Premier League, to Manchester City and to all those helping to promote Black Lives Matter."
After the game, Burnley captain Ben Mee said he was "ashamed" and "embarrassed" by the stunt from a "small number of fans".
"It's completely missed the point", he told Sky Sports.
"These people need to come into the 21st century and educate themselves.... I'm really upset that happened."
Former Manchester City player and Sky Sports pundit Micah Richards said the banner was "so disheartening".
"After how far we've come in this last couple of weeks, it really does hurt me," he said.
"Just at a time when things looked on the up, you've always got a small fraction - it's not everyone - who just want to spoil things. But I don't want to make a massive thing of that when we've got something so positive going on."
Burnley's players and coaching staff had joined Manchester City in taking a knee as their match kicked off, becoming the 20th Premier League club to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Since the Premier League resumed on 17 June after a three-month break because of the coronavirus pandemic, all players have taken a knee before kick-off and have worn "Black Lives Matter" on their shirts.
It is a show of support for racial equality following widespread protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis.
Kick It Out, English football's anti-racism charity, said the sentiments of the banner flown over the Burnley game represented a grave misunderstanding of the Black Lives Matter initiative.
The organisation's chairman Sanjay Bhandari said: "The point of Black Lives Matter is not to diminish the importance of other people's lives.
"It is to highlight that black people are being denied certain human rights simply by virtue of the colour of their skin.
"It is about equality. We shall continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for greater equality for all in football."
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has faced criticism after he called taking a knee a "symbol of subjugation and subordination" and suggested it was inspired by Game Of Thrones.
The symbolic gesture was popularised in 2016 when NFL star Colin Kaepernick got down on one knee while the US national anthem played before games to highlight racial inequality and police brutality.
Manchester City ran out 5-0 winners over Burnley with two goals each from Phil Foden and Riyad Mahrez and another from David Silva.
This movie was a fantastic feel good movie. The plot was unpredictable, the soundtrack is one of the best out there (I still have 2 of the songs on my exercise playlists), but you see this courtroom scene, this courtroom scene was everything. It's one of the funniest scenes in moviedom.
I had the videotape of this movie from around 1983 till 1988, but the videotape was only clear until around 5 minutes to the end of the movie. I have never watched the end until now.
It was a gripping movie, I loved the sword, the dwarf grossed me out, I was impressed by the elf and I absolutely fell in love with the witch.
So, in this case, someone drops a review of a Black Lives Matter movie. Another person quotes the review and talks about the movie's position with the reality of black lives matter protest. Another person then quotes the second person to talk about race and black lives matter internationally. The original person who dropped the review quotes the third person and gives his own knowledge on race issues internationally.
The 3rd person and the op's second comments are tangential. What you are now saying is that the op should only drop reviews and not drop another comment (or reply in this case) on the themes of the movie. That is silly. So, someone cannot follow up on the review he posted. They should now be commenting on two threads- first, the movie review thread and secondly the movie chat thread. Stop making up silly rules.
Please, stop trolling as well.
You see this is the problem. You want to make up rules to suit yourself when the rules are clear. Rule 1 was created and people were mandated to enforce it. It says do not derail the thread by posting off topic. The mods have repeatedly enforced this rule and created threads for people that want to discuss issues that are related to the topic and not the main topic.
You know all these, you've seen all these, but you want to go on a 3 page spree that takes you away from the topic, when you know that the issues that you are discussing are only slightly related to the topic and there are threads for such issues.
NaijaMemes: Nonsense upon nonsense. That thread is for everything from gossip to politics to movies.
We are talking about the limits to one thread and you are bringing another thread into the matter.
The matter is about the movies thread- is it wrong to talk about black lives matter after analysing a black lives matter movie?
Do you even know the meaning of tangential? Because what you are asking people to do is to mention a movie in the movies thread and then go to another thread (the cinema lounge thread) to discuss it. So to discuss a movie, one should use 2 threads?? That is nonsense
naptu2: Rule 1 exists for a reason. Nairaland is a huge forum and nothing stops you from having your meaningful discussion in the right place. This is a thread on the literature section. It is a story thread https://www.nairaland.com/1205583/iyawo-nylon-bag
People who derailed that thread had their posts hidden and repeat offenders were banned. I wanted to discuss issues about that thread. I did not derail the thread, rather I created a discussion thread in the general section https://www.nairaland.com/1272634/iyawo-nylon-bag-gist-thread
Is that so difficult to do? Besides, you and I know that those "meaningful discussions" contained insults. Swear that the black lives matter discussion that was hidden yesterday did not contain any insults.
It isn't too hard to obey the rules.
In fact, I have been reading Nairaland since 2006 at least and I know that, in order to prevent derailment, the mods actually created discussion threads so that people can have off topic discussions.
It is those off topic discussions on the movie thread that lead to insults, bullying, mocking, trolling and so on, like we had in the Black Lives Matter discussion yesterday.
naptu2: Here it is. The chat thread for tangential discussions.
This thread was created by the moderator for all off topic discussions and chats in the TV/Movies section.
Background. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s it was quite common for black people in some parts of America to be beaten up, have a noose tied around their necks and hung from trees until they were dead. This is called lynching.
Noose found in stall of Bubba Wallace at Alabama NASCAR race
By JOHN ZENOR 2 hours ago
TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — A noose was found in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace at the NASCAR race in Alabama on Sunday, less than two weeks after he successfully pushed the stock car racing series to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and facilities.
NASCAR said it had launched an immediate investigation and will do everything possible to find out who was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.”
“We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act,” the series said in a statement. “As we have stated unequivocally, there is no place for racism in NASCAR, and this act only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all.”
Wallace is the only fulltime Black driver in NASCAR’s elite Cup Series. On Twitter, he said the “the despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and ow persistent we must be in the fight against racism.”
“As my mother told me today, ‘They are just trying to scare you,’” he wrote. “ This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in.”
The noose was discovered on the same day NASCAR’s fledgling flag ban faced its biggest challenge. The ban took effect before last week’s race near Miami, but there were only about 1,000 military members admitted into that race.
At Talladega, in the heart of the South, as many as 5,000 fans were allowed in, even though rain postponed the race until Monday and visitors were barred from the infield.
There weren’t any immediate reports of how many flags were confiscated or taken down at the track, if any — but the flag was present nearby. There were informal protests Saturday and Sunday alike, with cars and pickup trucks driving along nearby roads flying the flag and parading past the entrance to the superspeedway. A small plane flew overhead pulling a banner with the flag and the words “Defund NASCAR.”
NASCAR did not acknowledged the plane, though executive Steve O’Donnell tweeted a picture of black and white hands shaking with the words: “You won’t see a photo of a jackass flying a flag over the track here...but you will see this.” Rapper Ice Cube tweeted about the plane saying, “(Expletive) him NASCAR, you got new fans in this household.”
Wallace, a 26-year-old Alabama native who drives the No. 43 for Richard Petty Motorsports, said he has found support among fellow drivers for his stance on the flag. He noted that after the noose announcement.
“Over the last several weeks, I have been overwhelmed by the support from people across the NASCAR industry including other drivers and tea members in the garage,” he said. “Together, our sport has made a commitment to driving real chance and championing a community that is accepting and welcoming of everyone. Nothing is more important and we will not be deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate.”
Wallace’s 2013 victory in a Truck Series race was only the second in a NASCAR national series by an Black driver (Wendell Scott, 1963) and helped push him into the Cup Series, where he drives for Hall of Famer Richard Petty and is forced to scramble for sponsorship dollars.
NASCAR has spent years trying to distance itself from the Confederate flag, long a part of its moonshine-running roots from the its founding more than 70 years ago. Five years ago, former chairman Brian France tried to ban flying the flags at tracks, a proposal that was not enforced and was largely ignored.
This year was different and it was Wallace who led the charge. Over the past month as the nation has been roiled by social unrest largely tied to the death of George Floyd, Wallace wore a black T-shirt with the words “I Can’t Breathe” at one race and had a #BlackLivesMatter paint scheme at another.
Wallace, whose father is white, was not always outspoken about racism; even after Floyd was killed last month while in police custody in Minneapolis, he was not the first driver to speak out for racial equality. He has said he began to find his public voice on racism after watching video in May of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting in Georgia. He said he now recognizes he must not let his platform as a prominent driver go to waste.
NBA star LeBron James tweeted his support to Wallace, calling the noose “sickening!”
“ Know you don’t stand alone! I’m right here with you as well as every other athlete,” James wrote. “I just want to continue to say how proud I am of you for continuing to take a stand for change here in America and sports!”
Talladega is one of the more raucous stops on the NASCAR schedule, but the coronavirus pandemic prompted the series, like all sports, to ban or sharply limit fans for months. The scene this weekend was a dramatic departure from the Talladega norm with plenty of room for social distancing and fans asked to wear masks.
“It’s weird. It’s eerie,” said David Radvansky, 32, from suburban Atlanta, who brought his wife and boys, 3 and 6.
Radvansky, who started coming to Talladega in the 1990s when his father parked cars at races, applauded NASCAR’s decision to ban the Confederate flag.
“I don’t think there’s a place for it in NASCAR, to be honest with you,” the 32-year-old said. “That doesn’t sit well with all the good ole boys but it is what it is.”
Directly across from the track, Ed Sugg’s merchandise tent was flying Confederate flags prominently in a display alongside Trump 2020 banners and an American flag.
“They’re doing very well,” said Sugg, a Helena, Alabama, resident who has been selling an array of wares at NASCAR races for 21 years. “People are disappointed that NASCAR has taken that stance. It’s been around for as long as all of us have been.
“I don’t think anybody really connects it to any kind of racism or anything,” he said. “It’s just a Southern thing. It’s transparent. It’s just a heritage thing.”
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