The fight

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Sinopse

Michael Mann's biopic Ali starring Will Smith, Jon Voight and Jamie Foxx opens on general release in January 2002. Read more about Muhammad Ali in the Penguin Modern Classic The Fight.With the real Muhammed Ali involved in the filmmaking, Ali takes us straight into the heart of the ring, the strategy sessions and straight into the mind and body of the man. Will Smith trained for a year before filming, transforming himself from a 185 pound actor to a 220 pound athlete.Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and monumental egos.

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Autor: Norman Mailer

Autor

NORMAN MAILER

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) nasceu em Nova Jersey e é considerado um dos autores mais polêmicos e importantes da literatura americana, seja por seus romances, como Os nus e os mortos (1948) e O parque dos cervos (1955), seja por seus livros de não-ficção, como Os exércitos da noite (Prêmio Pulitzer de 1968), Por que estamos no Vietnã? (1967) e Marilyn: uma biografia (1973). Em 2005, foi premiado pela National Book Foundation por sua contribuição à literatura americana.