肯·伯恩斯（Ken Burns）和公司（Ken Burns and Company）的全新纪录片《穆罕默德·阿里》（Muhammad Ali
‘Muhammad Ali,’ a Thorough New Docuseries From Ken Burns and Company, Gives a Complex Icon His Due: TV Review
尽管“穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）”在《最后的舞蹈》（The The Last Dance）之后亮相，但很难不将其视为ESPN推进的纪录片的一种精神前传。 “最后的舞蹈”详细介绍了迈克尔·乔丹（Michael Jordan）作为超级巨星运动员和不可阻挡的全球品牌的兴起，立即在2020年4月的首映式上引起了轰动。乔丹（Jordan）担任主题，来源和制片人，“最后的舞蹈”讲述了一个男人的故事，也讲述了他繁荣发展的时间和地点的故事。当一个富有魅力的约旦从内部的一个看似富丽堂皇的家中，雪茄和苏格兰人不断地进行了采访，他使他很容易理解他如何成为体育和文化中的如此巨大的人物。伯恩斯（Burns），戴维·麦克马洪（David McMahon）和莎拉·伯恩斯（Sarah Burns），“穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）”从未提及约旦（Jordan）重建了阿里（Ali）的职业生涯，并对世界上的影响很大，但不必这样做。只是看着阿里吹嘘自己的才能，嘲笑他的对手，然后一遍又一遍地证明自己的价值表明，篮球传奇人物以阿里的形象造就了多少 - 而且，随着系列的继续，他为什么仍然不能声称自己拥有与阿里几乎具有相同的文化足迹，“太空果酱“ 或者没有。正如“穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）”令人信服地争论的那样，穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）是才华横溢，有驱动的，吹牛的黑人运动员，例如约旦（Jordan），他们知道自己是最好的，并且占用了他们该死的尽可能多的空间。但是，这也使阿里的案子成为一个人物，这是一个人，甚至没有人，甚至没有约旦，都无法复制。这是“穆罕默德·阿里”（Muhammad Ali）设法完全分解的壮举，而不会在不崩溃的情况下崩溃。该系列稳定地详细介绍了阿里无与伦比的拳击事业的来龙去脉，他作为一个毫无歉意的黑人穆斯林的意义以及他在历史上作为避雷针的单一地位，从未避开过风暴。它显示了阿里如何被公义的火燃烧他对自己的信仰，对真主的信仰以及对美利坚合众国黑人压迫的愤怒。这很清楚，无论是故意还是在情况下，阿里成为如此多的冲突的全球象征，以至于他迅速变得比他自己更大。他的职业生涯的高峰和山谷通过四个两个小时的剧集。带有智能针滴（包括碧昂斯的“自由”的早期充满活力的蒙太奇），令人惊讶的档案镜头，以及对体育作家，学者，拳击手以及阿里的孩子和前妻的访谈，“穆罕默德·阿里”画了一幅有趣的肖像一个极其复杂的人。 （从技术上讲，该系列涵盖了他的一生，但是自从他的最后30年降级为最后30分钟以来，它主要是说，它主要关注他的拳击职业，而不是提供完整的传记。）诗人woLe Soyinka和拳击手Michael Bentt对该系列的成功至关重要，因为他们在各自领域的专业知识以及他们如何经历了Ali作为一个个人和现象作为黑人男人。基思·戴维（Keith David），这些情节按时间顺序展开，追踪阿里（Ali）的青年时代是一个聪明的孩子，他在拳击界的上升，远远超出了。 “他称自己是最伟大的，”大卫的画外音在一个年轻的阿里笑脸的形象上说道，“然后他向整个世界证明了这一点。”阿里迷住了“整个世界”是该系列的关键点，作为一个直言不讳的黑人穆斯林美国人，深入研究了他的文化影响。从马尔科姆（Malcom）介绍他到几年后被放逐到自己，它列出了他对伊斯兰国的奉献精神。阿里在越南战争期间拒绝入选美国陆军，这也是一个主要线索对于他和世界对成为爱国美国人意味着什么的看法。它详细介绍了阿里如何成为世界上的偶像，即使他在自己的祖国被恐惧和完全憎恨。该系列还解释了他对那些加入伊斯兰国并放弃他的“奴隶名称”后继续称他为卡修斯·克莱（Cassius Clay）的人的特别鄙视，尤其是如果他们是乔伊（Joe）等拳击竞争对手（例如乔）弗雷泽（Frazier），也是黑人。对这些讨论的细微差别，“穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）”确实为像弗雷泽（Frazier），桑尼·利斯顿（Sonny Liston）和乔治·福尔曼（George Foreman）这样的男人的故事腾出了空间，他们的道路与阿里相撞，但仍然是独一无二的。他们与阿里的比赛以及导致和遵循的情况，有助于形成该系列的结构，否则它们可能会变得笨拙。每个情节至少都有几个Ali最关键比赛的延长重播，将原始F一起缝合在一起现代的评论和评论从今天起进一步见解。阿里的残酷吉布斯，与女性的自私和爆炸性自我的背景使该系列无法变得过于hagiographic，即使它倾向于大多数情况的最慷慨的读物。 ，当他退休后的几年中，最后一集最终越来越大，这真是令人震惊，这使他嫁给了他的第四任和最后一位妻子，努力在戒指外面找到自己的位置，并与帕金森氏症战斗直到2016年去世。 ，在阿里一生的这一章中，足以助长其他系列，或者至少是另一集的另一集。但是，当该系列的其余部分是如此周到和彻底的时候，很难为董事而匆忙地匆匆忙忙，从而为一个许多人认为他们已经知道的故事带来了新的见解。您是否了解Ali的影响S，您应该留下新的欣赏，以了解他如何以其他运动员从未有过的方式获得和发挥自己的影响力。“穆罕默德·阿里（Muhammad Ali）” 9月19日，星期日，晚上8点首映。在PBS上。
Though “Muhammad Ali” is debuting well after “The Last Dance,” it’s hard not to think of it as a sort of spiritual prequel to ESPN’s propulsive docuseries. “The Last Dance,” which detailed the rise of Michael Jordan as both a superstar athlete and unstoppable global brand, immediately became a sensation upon its April 2020 premiere. With Jordan on board as a subject, source and producer, “The Last Dance” told the story of a man, but also the story of the time and place in which he thrived. As an ever-charismatic Jordan gave his interviews from inside a seemingly palatial home, cigar and Scotch constantly at the ready, he made it easy to understand how he’d become such a colossal figure in sports and culture alike.
Co-directed by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns, “Muhammad Ali” never mentions Jordan in its reconstruction of Ali’s career and impact on the world writ large, but it doesn’t have to. Simply watching Ali boast of his prowess, taunt his opponents, and prove his worth over and over again makes it clear just how much the basketball legend made himself in Ali’s image — and, as the series continues, why he still can’t claim to have had nearly the same cultural footprint as Ali, “Space Jam” or no. As “Muhammad Ali” convincingly argues, Muhammad Ali was the blueprint for talented, driven, braggadocious Black athletes like Jordan who know they’re the best and take up as much space as they damn well please. But it also meticulously makes the case for Ali as a figure that no one, not even Jordan, can replicate.
It’s a feat that “Muhammad Ali” manages to break down exactly how that happened without collapsing under the sheer volume of material at play. With a steady hand, the series details the ins and outs of Ali’s unparalleled boxing career, his significance as an unapologetic Black Muslim, and his singular place in history as a lightning rod who never shied away from the storm. It shows how Ali was fueled by a righteous fire ignited by his belief in himself, faith in Allah, and fury at Black oppression in the United States of America. It makes plain how, both on purpose and by circumstance, Ali became a global symbol of so many intersecting conflicts that he quickly became far bigger than himself.
Premiering Sept. 19 on PBS, “Muhammad Ali” dives into Ali’s uniquely complex life by following the peaks and valleys of his career through four two-hour episodes. With smart needle drops (including an early energetic montage set to Beyonce’s “Freedom”), an astonishing amount of archival footage, and interviews with sportswriters, scholars, boxers, and Ali’s children and ex-wives, “Muhammad Ali” paints a fascinating portrait of an extremely complex man. (The series technically covers his entire life, but since his final 30 years are relegated to its final 30 minutes, it’s more accurate to say it focuses primarily on his boxing career than on providing his complete biography.) Voices such as professor Gerald Early, poet Wole Soyinka, and boxer Michael Bentt are crucial to the series’ success both for their expertise in their respective fields, and how they experienced Ali as an individual and phenomenon as fellow Black men.
Written by Sarah Burns and McMahon, and narrated with gravitas by Keith David, the episodes unfold chronologically, tracing Ali’s youth as a wisecracking kid, his ascendence in the boxing scene and far beyond. “He called himself the Greatest,” David’s voiceover intones over an image of a young Ali’s smiling face, “and then he proved it to the entire world.”
That Ali captivated “the entire world” is a key point for the series, which delves into his cultural impact as an outspoken Black Muslim American man. It lays out the arc of his dedication to the Nation of Islam, from Malcom X introducing him to being exiled himself years later. Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War is also a major thread throughout, presented as a vital turning point for both him and the world’s perception of what it meant to be a patriotic American at all. It details how Ali became an icon the world over, even as he was so feared and outright hated in his home country. The series also explains the special disdain he reserved for those who continued to refer to him as Cassius Clay after he joined the Nation of Islam and renounced his “slave name” — particularly if they were, as in the case of boxing rivals such as Joe Frazier, also Black men.
Adding to the nuance of these discussions is the fact that “Muhammad Ali” does make room for the stories of men like Frazier, Sonny Liston and George Foreman, whose paths collided with Ali but were nonetheless unique unto themselves. Their matches against Ali, and the circumstances leading up to and following them, help form the structure of the series, which might otherwise become unwieldy. Each episode features at least a couple extended replays of Ali’s most pivotal matches, stitching together original footage and commentary with further insights from the present day. Context for Ali's crueler jibes, selfishness with women, and explosive ego keeps the series from becoming too hagiographic, even as it tends towards the most generous reads of most situations.
Given how much detail “Muhammad Ali” amasses in its examination of Ali’s boxing career, it’s downright startling when the final episode ends up speeding through the years following his retirement, which saw him marry his fourth and final wife, struggle to find his place outside the ring, and battle Parkinson’s until his death in 2016. There is, perhaps, enough in this chapter of Ali’s life to fuel a whole other series, or at least another episode of this one. But it’s hard to begrudge the directors too much for rushing at the end when the rest of the series is so thoughtful and thorough, bringing fresh insight to a story so many think they already know. Whether or not you understand the breadth of Ali’s impact going into this series, you should leave it gaining a new appreciation of how he gained and wielded his influence in a way no other athlete had before, or has truly done since.
"Muhammad Ali" premieres Sunday, Sept. 19, at 8 p.m. on PBS.
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