SPORT DRAMA GENREBY KATTRE VOZNJUK

HISTORY OF SPORT FILMS

• SPORT FILMS HAVE BEEN MADE SENSE 1800’S. THERE'S BEEN MANY DIFFERENT TYPES RANGING FROM FOOTBALL TO SKIING.

• THEY GO INTO DIFFERENT GENRES SOME BEING DRAMA AND ROMANCE FOR EXAMPLE “CINDERELLA MAN” AND “ROCKY”. THERE’S ALSO MANY SPORT COMEDIES FOR EXAMPLE “THE GAME PLAN” AND “GRUDGE MATCH”. SOME OF THE MOVIES ARE DOCUMENTARY'S OR BIOGRAPHIES LIKE “ON THE ROPES” AND “MY ALL AMERICAN”.

HISTORY OF SPORT BOXING FILMS(1) • ONE OF THE FIRST BOXING FILMS WAS MADE IN 1894. IT WAS A SILENT

MOVIE CALLED “CORBETT AND COURTNEY BEFORE THE KINETOGRAPH” AND WAS A DOCUMENTARY.

• BY 1930’S THERE HAD BEEN MANY MORE MOVIES MADE ABOUT BOXING MANY BEING COMEDY AND DRAMA.

• BETWEEN 1930 AND 1950 BOXING MOVIES HAD BECOME BIGGER AND BIGGER. MANY HAVING THE MAIN BOXER BEING SOMEONE THAT GREW FROM BEING SMALL AND NOT VERY GOOD OR KNOWN BECOME BIG AND FAMOUS.

• BOXING MOVIES HAD THEIR SHARE OF ROMANCE IN THEM OFTEN SHOWING THE MAN HAVING TO FIGHT TO PROTECT THE WOMAN ALTHOUGH SHE DID NOT LIKE IT. SOME MOVIES SHOW HOW THE BOXER QUIT TO MAKE THE WOMAN HAPPY. SOME ICONIC SPORT DRAMA AND ROMANCE MOVIES ARE “MILLION DOLLAR BABY” AND “ROCKY”.

HISTORY OF BOXING FILMS (2)• 1951 TO 1979 MANY OSCAR WINNING BOXING MOVIES WERE BECOMING

BIGGER AND BIGGER. WITH THE STORYLINE STILL SHOWING THE UNDERDOG BECOMING TO POWER TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LIFE OR FOR LOVE. BOXING MOVIES BECAME LIKED BY MEN FOR THE FIGHTS AND LOVED BY WOMEN FROM THE ROMANCE AND LOVE THAT WOULD BLOSSOM BETWEEN UNLIKELY MATCHES.

• FROM 1980 UNTIL 2000 THE MAIN GENERA FOR BOXING MOVIES WAS DRAMA. BOXING MOVIES MADE THE SPORT BECOME MORE POPULAR AND HELPED STRUGGLING ACTORS BECOME BIGGER AND MORE WELL KNOWN.

• 2000 UNTIL PRESENT DAY THE MOVIES HAVE BECOME MORE DOCUMENTARIES. SHOWING REAL LIFE STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN BOXING FOR MONEY OR FOR FUN.

FIRST BOXING MOVIE ON RECORD: CORBETT AND COURTNEY BEFORE THE KINETOGRAPH (1894)

Directed by William Kennedy Dickson, William Heise

Published on 17th November 1894

Cast James J. Corbett, Peter Courtney

ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BOXING MOVIES OF TIME:ROCKY (1976)

Directed by John G. Avildsen

Published on 1st January 1977

Cast Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire

ONE OF THE LATEST BOXING MOVIES:HANDS OF STONE(2016)

Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz

Published on 15th September 2016

Staring Usher, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramirez