Symbolism In Cinderella Man

“Cinderella Man”, directed by Ron Howard, takes a hasty plunge from a booming economy to a bombshell into the Great Depression; Jim Braddock the courageous boxer, persevered through the nations lowliest point. In the film the camera caught a glimpse of a newspaper front-page reading “Unemployment Hits Record 15 million Americas”. This exposed the American economy; nationalism is shown incongruently in the film “Rocky IV” where the Western/American society is captured as a world superpower, strong and confident on their ability, but in “Cinderella Man” citizens are portrayed as desperate and willing to beg for mercy. Storm clouds of economic and societal conditions were in full affect on how it sculpted the film’s path had a dramatic mark on

Ron Howard methodically positioned the film to reveal aesthetics of the societal atmosphere of the uncertain times in 1930’s during the Great Depression. I would argue that director Ron Howard did a poor job in a few scenes when he contradicted what life is like for everyone during the Great Depression. Ron Howard’s scenes in the film were very attractive and relaxing, in the scene where Braddock’s is running outside in the snow or when Mae is walking with her child through the bright white snow. Lighting in particular displayed in a very optimistic and warm manner, making a pleasant scene. On the contrary, nothing about the Great Depression is pleasant or optimistic. Howard could have dimmed the lighting and possibly have the wind blowing the snow across the children to better exemplify the tough times. Conversely, Howard did a tremendous job in describing the social issue of crime

In the scene where Jim’s wife Mae sends their children away because they struggled to support them, Jim became outraged and frustrated with Mae for taking such actions. In order to get his children, back he is determined to do whatever it takes. Later he finds himself signing up for unemployment. Nevertheless, he did not have enough money; subsequently Jim approaches the upper class boxing commission to beg for a mere $18.38. He says this is the absolute last thing he would doing if know him. In both scenes Jim has not lost everything, most importantly, what meant the most and fundamentally about what it meant to be a man. This film followed a pitiable gender distribution, where the male (Jim) is the focal point as the female counterpart is relatively nonexistent. Similarly, films such as “Rocky IV” has fallen problematic to this issue, Rocky is the central character and his female equivalence is Ivan Dragos wife, which is laughable to call them equivalent. Comparably the unintentional racism is brought to attention my attention in “Cinderella Man”; an outrage ought to be made about how the lack of consideration for the hardships of blacks and other minatory groups. Obviously segregation existed in the 1930s, but in the film to have blacks nonexistent in any type of significant role is upsetting. Comparable to what is discussed in module eight in lecture, Hollywood uses sport stories to support certain class-related