{"id":10453,"date":"2011-01-08T22:49:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2011-01-08T22:51:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:51:48","slug":"the-fighter-real-time-video-comparison-hbo-mickey-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/01\/08\/the-fighter-real-time-video-comparison-hbo-mickey-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fighter: Real-time Video Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UEca3Ltpi5c\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10454\" title=\"The Fighter Video Comparison\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/The-Fighter-Video-Comparison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>* Spoiler Warning: If you haven&#8217;t yet seen The Fighter then you shouldn&#8217;t probably shouldn&#8217;t watch this *<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Video has surfaced which compares a sequence from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/11\/29\/the-fighter-review-david-orussell-mark-wahlberg-christian-bale\/\">The Fighter<\/a><\/strong> with footage of the real life fight.<\/p>\n<p>The film is about welterweight boxer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Micky_Ward\">Mickey Ward<\/a> and climaxes with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ypCXaRHX4uY\">his championship fight<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/boxrec.com\/list_bouts.php?human_id=4679&amp;cat=boxer\">Shea Neary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This video compares the original HBO footage of the fight and the way it was depicted in the film.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UEca3Ltpi5c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UEca3Ltpi5c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is how the film still took dramatic licence even though director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_O._Russell\">David O&#8217;Russell<\/a> used an actual HBO film crew to recreate the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t think this reflects badly on the film as it demonstrates the limits of recreating something &#8216;perfectly&#8217;, especially given that live TV and cinema are two very different contexts.<\/p>\n<p>But it is fascinating nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chud.com\/28643\/watch-this-cool-fighter-comparison-video-now-it-may-not-be-around-long\/\">CHUD<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Fandorific\">Fandorific<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/11\/29\/the-fighter-review-david-orussell-mark-wahlberg-christian-bale\/\">My LFF review of The Fighter<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0964517\/\">The Fighter<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Micky_Ward\">Mickey Ward<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video has surfaced which compares a sequence from The Fighter with footage of the real life fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1780,1696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}