{"product_id":"24152","title":"Muhammad Ali : The Greatest Usa 64-zaire 74 (DVD)","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e🔴\u003c\/b\u003e Condition - \u003cb\u003eLike New 🔴\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuhammad Ali - The Greatest gives a valuable insight into the man who became, for a time, the most famous man in the world.\u003cbr\u003eIt's difficult to realise, unless you lived at that time, the impact Ali had. As Cassius Clay he was the first fighter with the strength of personality, the sheer charisma, to break the mobster-mould of prize-fighting. Even people who loathed boxing were in awe of the man's grace and fluid beauty.\u003cbr\u003eThis film, by French cinema-verite film-maker William Klein, tracks Cassius immediately before his first bout with Sonny Liston in 1964, when he gained the heavyweight title, and follows through to the controversial return bout soon after, when, now Muhammad Ali, he stopped Liston in the first round, after just one minute.\u003cbr\u003eIt's interesting that although the people he fought were black as well, they totally failed to symbolise, as Ali did, the new spirit of Black America, and its hatred of the old subservience.\u003cbr\u003eThe film shows the tremendous spirit, through example, that Ali was able to pass on to young Blacks in America. It shows some ugly scenes too - as when a leading member of a Louisville syndicate of whites who had financially backed Ali as a young boxer, rails against his seeming ingratitude. He reminds viewers that once, not that long ago, his grandparents would have owned Ali's grandparents. Eternal gratitude, it seems, is his right.\u003cbr\u003eThere is a lot of great footage here - and plenty of testimony of why Ali earned the soubriquets of The Louisville Lip and The Mouth. The DVD is worth having for just a few minutes alone, when William Klein is able to interview the Black revolutionary, Malcolm X. An incredibly articulate, perceptive and super-cool Malcolm X says straight-out that Ali will win his fight. It is his time, and his people's time, in history. A few days later Malcolm X was dead - murdered, some believe, by other Black Muslims jealous of the power-base Malcolm X was building.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pearls Books n Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45826204598463,"sku":"24152","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5552\/0703\/files\/alizaire.jpg?v=1783469694","url":"https:\/\/pearlsbooksfnq.com\/products\/24152","provider":"Pearls Books n Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}