Generously illustrated with movie stills, historical photos, and posters in a stunning four-color book design—the only official tie-in to the new film, starring Will Smith and directed by Michael Mann (The Insider). Includes over 200 images, the screenplay, behind-the-scenes stories, and writings by Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Wilfred Sheed, David Remnick, Thomas Hauser, and Pete Hamill, among others. Filmed in five months in six cities throughout America and Africa, Ali focuses on 1964-1974, from the night in Miami when 22-year-old Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight title, to the stunning upset in Africa ten years later when the fighter regained his crown from a hugely favored George Foreman. With the real Muhammad Ali involved in the filmmaking, as well as his close friend photographer Howard Bingham (who is also a character in the film), Ali takes us into the ring, the strategy sessions, the bedrooms, and straight into the mind and heart of the man who, as biographer Thomas Hauser wrote, "has become a legend in his own lifetime."
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Inspirational in its own way, Ali: The Movie and the Man is the official companion to the film starring Will Smith as Muhammad Ali. The book features an introduction by director Michael Mann and writings about Ali by Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, David Remnick and others, along with movie stills and archival photos of the smug, playful and energetic fighter and performer. Readers, filmgoers and boxing fans will appreciate this volume, which is not only an homage to the man whose famous phrase "I am the greatest!" still rings true, but also a tribute to Mann's film.
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Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Michael Mann is the Academy Award®-nominated director of The Insider, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Thief, and Manhunter, and produced the TV series Miami Vice. Eric Roth is the co-writer with Man of The Insider and wrote the screenplays for Forrest Gump and The Horse Whisperer.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a nice companion book to the film,
By Cubist (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ali: The Movie and the Man (Paperback)
While this book is basically a glossy version of the film's production notes, it does have some very nice pictures from the film and some of Howard Bingham's famous photos of Ali and the film's screenplay (albeit condensed and squished in there). What is nice about the book is that they pad it out with writings from the likes of Norman Mailer and do try to put Ali's life in a historical context. In this sense, it is a nice companion piece to the film because it fills in more of the gaps on Mann's rather Expressionistic take. Good reading.
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