Million Dollar Baby Essay

The film I watched in my Kin 385 class was a movie called Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood. This movie showcased the effort of women trying to get into the sport scene and trying to make a new era of opportunities for women. For one thing, I saw this movie in a very understanding standpoint since I believe women are close to or are as good as some male athletes. For one thing I thought the stereotype the male lead Frankie Dunn, played by Clint Eastwood himself, had was understandable toward women, since it was not very common a women comes to train to become a boxer. However, throughout the movie we can see that the dedication the women lead, Maggie Fitzgerald had was truly awe-inspiring and that hard work can bring out a champ inside

Despite the fact that he leaves later on the movie, I felt that Frankie has a mentality of a coach that does not want to let go of any of his students regardless of if the student was talented or gifted and was ready to move onto the next level. When Maggie first approached Frankie in the gym he told her that he does not “train girls.” After hearing this from Frankie, I had a gist of what kind of character he was; a stingy old man who only like training men. This was probably understandable to most audiences, since back in the days it was really rare that a women steps into a gym asking an old white man to train her. Though this we can say that women’s involvement in sport was a slow to develop but was surely there to be a stepping stone for women in the upcoming generations. “Opportunities for participation and recognition were almost non-existent for centuries. It was not until the advent of the equal rights movements and Title IX that women truly found a place as participants in the world of sport and in the public arena (Richard C. Bell, 2008).” I can say that thanks to title IX women were able to see a light in sports involvement and they had more opportunities because of