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Today I have decided to write about the movie Million Dollar Baby starring Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman and a whole wonderful cast of people.
The story starts off with Margaret Maggie Fitzgerald a waitress from the Ozarks enters the Hit Pit a rundown boxing gym in Los Angeles that is operated by Frankie Dunn, he is a cantankerous Irish American trainer estranged from his daughter.
Maggie asks him to train her he says no because he doesn’t train girls and he’s too old, Eddie Scrap Iron dupris Frankie’s friend and the gyms handyman allows her to train at the hit pit regardless.
Frankie’s prize prospect Big Willie little signs with rival manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout.
Maggie gets her Chance, with Frankie’s coaching Maggie fights her way up in the women’s amateur boxing division, since she has earned a reputation for quick knockouts, Frankie bribes managers to put their trainee fighters against her.
Scrap gets concerned when he sees Frankie rejecting offers for big fights he arranges a meeting with Mickey Mack and Maggie, out of loyalty to Frankie she declines the offer, Frankie bestows Maggie a Gaelic nickname embroidered on her boxing robe Mo Cusihle.
He doesn’t tell her the meaning of it, the two travel to Europe as she continues to win, Maggie eventually saves enough of her winnings to buy her mother a house, her mom berates her for endangering her welfare checks and tells her everyone laughs at her back home.
Frankie is finally ready and willing to arrange a title fight, he secures Maggie a 1 million dollar fight in Vegas against the WBA Women’s welterweight champion Billie the Blue Bear Osterman a German Ex Prostitute who has a reputation as a dirty fighter.
Maggie begins to dominate the fight, Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker punch from the behind after the bells rings to end the round, Maggie hits her head hard on her stool and breaks her neck, leaving her a ventilator dependent Quadriplegic.
Her manager Frankie goes through the five stages of grief, seeking multiple doctors opinions in denial, he blames scrap and gets mad at him, he bargins with God through prayer, he later apologizes to scrap and blames himself for Maggie’s injuries Scrap tells him not to Maggie owes to him for getting her shot at the world championship.
You will have to watch the movie to find out what happens next, I can guarantee you this is a good movie to watch and it’s a wonderful story.
I decided to write about this movie because personally I am a fighter and I have been one since the day I came into the world.
When I was a baby the umbilical cords had somehow got wrapped around my neck and it was making hard to breathe, and the doctor could see that I was in trouble and the doctor told my mom we’ve got to get her out now and by Gods Grace the doctors got me out in the Nick of time, and that is why I am here today and my other fight was my diabetes, that was a lot to process the whole situation I remember the night and how everything happened I had a lot going on, I was in school and I had just started living on campus and I was a coach to the volleyball team, and everything was going well, and then unexpectedly things took a different direction and I told my mom I wasn’t feeling well and that I think I should come home,she set a doctor appointment for the next morning and my dad drove me to the doctor and the doctor said that my blood sugar level was higher than she could see on her monitor and that I had to go to the hospital right away, my dad took me to the hospital and on the way there he kept me alert so I wouldn’t go into a coma the doctor told him it’s a good thing he kept me alert because it could have been a different situation.
When I arrived at the hospital I was able to stay alert and I could walk by myself by the grace of God. The doctors took my blood sugar levels and it was at 1500 most people at that level are in a coma… and thank Heavens that wasn’t my situation.
I am so glad that he kept me, and saved my life I believe in time that I will be healed and I will be released from diabetes, I’m going to keep on taking care of myself and keeping my head up and not let diabetes’s have me even though I have it.
I want you all to know if you are going through something right now or having a situation, keep holding your head up and know that you will win the fight because you are strong and there’s nothing that’s too hard that you can’t handle.
Don’t give up keep on fighting and you will see that you can win whatever battle or hardship you are facing.
My favorite scene from the movie is when Maggie starts out in the gym working out on the punching bags and doing different kinds of boxing workouts, and she never gives up on boxing even when her mom told her people are Laughing at her, she still kept boxing and doing something that she has longed to do for a long time in her life, and she didn’t give up even when Frankie told her no a few times she still kept up with it and she knew that her time to box and have Frankie be her Manager would come at the right time when she needed it most.
She stayed boxing and enjoying herself even through all the things she was going through in her life because Boxing was something that she was passionate about and loved so much.
I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to watch a good sport drama story.
