[[ESP/ENG]] LA CLAQUETA DE CATIA: REBOUND, LA LEYENDA DE EARL "THE GOAT" MANIGAULT // CATIA CLAPPERBOARD: REBOUND, THE LEGEND OG EARL "THE GOAT" MANIGAULT
Saludos amigas y amigos de la comunidad, hoy domingo vuelvo por acá para traerles una película que no muchas personas han visto, que no muchas estarían interesadas en ver sencillamente porque no son amantes del baloncesto, pero si no la miran es porque tampoco son amantes de las buenas historias y el buen cine. Se trata de la historia de un jugador que nunca llegó a ser profesional, nunca llegó a jugar en alguna liga reconocida mundialmente, nunca llegó a dejar algún registro plausible en los libros de historia sobre su carrera en el baloncesto, pero que es considerado por muchos amantes del deporte como uno de los jugadores leyenda de las canchas de Nueva York en Estados Unidos, y que aún en nuestros días sigue permaneciendo como una eminencia en el deporte a pesar que nunca fue conocido más que por el relato de otras personas, yo le considero el Sócrates del baloncesto en ese sentido solamente, porque la vida que tuvo no tiene nada que ver con la del filósofo.
Es una película que pertenece a esa época de los noventas donde se hizo un cine realmente excepcional, y que pareciera tener una marca propia dentro de la propia historia del cine como por ejemplo la tiene el expresionismo alemán, u otras corrientes artísticas del cine, pero esta película en particular nos ambienta en las calles de la Gran Manzana y nos relata una historia que no solamente ocurrió una vez sino millones de veces, y continúa repitiéndose a lo largo del tiempo, la exclusión de la población afroamericana dentro de la sociedad, promesas deportivas perdidas en el consumo de drogas, y algunos otros temas importantes que se tocan en torno a la sociedad de esa época.
Sin lugar a dudas el director Eriq La Salle quiso plasmar una idea general sobre la película, aunque aveces habían escenas innecesarias o mal producidas en cuanto a detalles o malas actuaciones o diálogos sin sentido que le quitaban vistosidad a la película por momentos. Con esto no quiero decir que sea una película mala, pero tampoco es una que resalte precisamente por la dirección. Personalmente me decidí a verla porque me gusta el deporte, y había leído varias historias sobre Earl Manigault pero nunca tuve curiosidad de investigar más sobre el jugador y su carrera en concreto, aproveché la oportunidad de ver la película sobre su historia y quedé encantado a pesar de los detalles muchas veces fantasiosos que siempre integran en las películas para sobresaltar un aspecto de un personaje al máximo pero aveces exageran.
Greetings friends of the community, today Sunday I return here to bring you a movie that not many people have seen, that not many would be interested in seeing simply because they are not basketball lovers, but if they do not watch it is because they are not lovers of good stories and good movies. It is the story of a player who never became a professional, never played in a world-renowned league, never left any plausible record in the history books about his basketball career, but who is considered by many lovers of the sport as one of the legendary players of the courts of New York in the United States, I consider him the Socrates of basketball in that sense only, because the life he had has nothing to do with that of the philosopher.
It is a film that belongs to that period of the nineties where a truly exceptional cinema was made, and that seems to have its own mark within the history of cinema as, for example, German expressionism, or other artistic currents of cinema, but this particular film is set in the streets of the Big Apple and tells us a story that not only happened once but millions of times, and continues to be repeated over time, the exclusion of the African American population within society, sports promises lost in the consumption of drugs, and some other important issues that are touched around the society of that time.
Undoubtedly, director Eriq La Salle wanted to capture a general idea about the film, although sometimes there were unnecessary or poorly produced scenes in terms of details or bad acting or nonsense dialogues that took away the film's vividness at times. This is not to say that it is a bad movie, but it is not one that stands out precisely because of the direction. Personally I decided to see it because I like sports, and I had read several stories about Earl Manigault but I was never curious to investigate more about the player and his career in particular, I took the opportunity to see the film about his story and I was delighted despite the often fanciful details that are always integrated in films to highlight an aspect of a character to the maximum but sometimes exaggerate.
Don Cheadle es un gran actor reconocido por grandes papeles en películas famosas como Ocean's Twelve , Marvel Universe, Space Jam y Hotel Rwanda; además de haber trabajado en series televisivas dejando un maravilloso desempeño como en House of Lies, pero cuando vi el póster promocional de la película jamás imaginé que él iba a interpretar el papel de Earl Manigault, fue una de mis grandes sorpresas. Imagino que cuando obtuvo ese papel no era totalmente reconocido como lo es por estos días, pero se aprecia mucho una gran actuación de su parte, a mi juicio es lo que destacó e impidió que toda la película se fuera al hoyo de los malos filmes. No conozco al personaje de Earl Manigault personalmente, pero transmitió a una una persona muy corrompida e influenciada por su entorno, que no tenía muchas oportunidades en la vida por su color de piel, pero que tampoco ponía mucho de su parte por cambiar algo en su destino.
The Goat era un chico que, no me quedó muy claro, pero creció solo sin apoyo de su familia más que el suyo y el de una señora llamada Miss Mary, que nunca supe quien era realmente pero a la que Earl le tenía mucho aprecio. Luego aparece el mítico Holcombe Rucker, quien se encargó de organizar el primer torneo semiprofesional en Harlem, y que hoy tienen aún su nombre el torneo y la cancha; éste se encargó de formar académicamente a The Goat cuando tuvo algunas dificultades en la secundaria Franklin High School con un entrenador que fue una de las causas para que lo expulsaran, la otra fue que el director de la escuela se enteró que Manigault consumía Marihuana en las instalaciones. Continuó sus estudios en Carolina del Norte en donde intentó conseguir una beca para alguna universidad, pero ciertos eventos lo llevaron nuevamente a Harlem donde se reencontró con viejas amistades que lo arrastraron al consumo de drogas de manera más frecuente y lo hicieron perderse en ese mundo por mucho tiempo, hasta que un día en la prisión un oficial le pide que le firme un libro sobre baloncesto que tenía un capítulo entero sobre sus hazañas en las canchas de Nueva York, y decide dejar el mundo de la adicción y volver a Rucker Park a continuar el legado de su mentor Holcombe, que era el de alejar a los chicos de Harlem de las calles, las adicciones y encaminarlos a la práctica del deporte y el desarrollo académico.
La película guarda un gran mensaje con respecto a como las sociedades pobres que habitaban las zonas más descuidadas de Nueva York eran arrastradas por las drogas y apartadas de las oportunidades de crecer dentro de la sociedad norteamericana por el mismo racismo que se vivía en los años 60's, no es la temática principal del film, pero para el buen observador es una crítica al sistema que gobernaba en aquellos tiempos. Quizás gracias a personas como Holcombe Rucker y postriormente Earl Manigault, fue que muchos jugadores están o estuvieron en ligas profesionales durante su carrera, además de haber tenido una carrera académica que les permitiera defenderse como individuos ante la sociedad a muchos otros que no pudieron llegar a desempeñarse como jugadores profesionales; pero la película nos deja sutilmente una interrogante que aún está dando vueltas en mi cabeza ¿Cuántos jóvenes se perdieron en las calles de Harlem antes que The Goat por culpa de las drogas y el racismo, y que pudieron haber llegado a ser tan grandes en el baloncesto como los nombres que hoy en día conoce la gran mayoría de las personas, y que sólo son un pasado que nadie recordará jamás?
Don Cheadle is a great actor recognized for great roles in famous movies like Ocean's Twelve, Marvel Universe, Space Jam and Hotel Rwanda; besides having worked in television series leaving a wonderful performance as in House of Lies, but when I saw the promotional poster of the film I never imagined that he would play the role of Earl Manigault, it was one of my big surprises. I imagine that when he got that role he wasn't fully recognized as he is these days, but a great performance on his part is very much appreciated, in my opinion that's what stood out and kept the whole movie from going down the hole of bad films. I don't know Earl Manigault's character personally, but he conveyed a very corrupted and influenced by his environment person, who didn't have many opportunities in life because of his skin color, but who also didn't do much to change anything in his destiny.
The Goat was a boy who, it was not very clear to me, but grew up alone with no family support other than his own and that of a lady named Miss Mary, who I never knew who she really was but whom Earl was very fond of. Then appears the mythical Holcombe Rucker, who was in charge of organizing the first semi-professional tournament in Harlem, and that today the tournament and the court still have his name; he was in charge of academically forming The Goat when he had some difficulties at Franklin High School with a coach that was one of the causes for his expulsion, the other was that the school principal found out that Manigault consumed marijuana on the premises. He continued his studies in North Carolina where he tried to get a scholarship to some university, but certain events took him back to Harlem where he met up with old friends who dragged him to drug use more frequently and made him get lost in that world for a long time, Until one day in prison an officer asks him to sign a book on basketball that had an entire chapter on his exploits on the courts of New York, and he decides to leave the world of addiction and return to Rucker Park to continue the legacy of his mentor Holcombe, which was to take the kids of Harlem away from the streets, addictions and direct them to the practice of sports and academic development.
The film has a great message regarding how the poor societies that inhabited the most neglected areas of New York were dragged down by drugs and separated from the opportunities to grow within the American society by the same racism that was lived in the 60's, it is not the main theme of the film, but for the good observer it is a criticism of the system that ruled in those times. Perhaps thanks to people like Holcombe Rucker and later Earl Manigault, was that many players are or were in professional leagues during his career, in addition to having had an academic career that allowed them to defend themselves as individuals before society to many others who could not get to perform as professional players; But the film subtly leaves us with a question that is still going around in my head. How many young men were lost on the streets of Harlem before The Goat because of drugs and racism, and who could have become as great in basketball as the names that the vast majority of people know today, and who are only a past that no one will ever remember?
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Your post suffers from the way you are editing it, putting both versions of the text side by side create two gigantic and unappealing walltexts. Which gets even worse on mobile.
Try making the full post in one language then right after that you do the same thing with the translated version. This way you can edit better, use headers and dividers and make it easier to read, helping your audience.
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Thanks fot the appreciation. I'll take your advices, but there are paragraphs that may not be short, because the content is dense and i need to develope it to make the audience understand well the content and not be like pages on internet that are mediocre or poor for people who valorate well written information, otherwise the books that we read were 40 pages long.
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Like your reply, you got really big sentences without even a comma, try reading your post/reply out loud without losing breath. It's difficult right?
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