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Ali sees "Rocky II:" The Greatest as movie critic

By Roger Ebert

Los Angeles, 1979

Right here in the middle of Muhammad Ali's mansion, right here in themiddle of the mahogany and the stained glass and the rare Turkish rug,there was this large insect buzzing near my ear. I gave it a slap andmissed. Then it made a swipe at my other ear. I batted at the air butnothing seemed to be there, and Muhammad Ali was smiling to himselfand studying the curve of his staircase.

I turned toward the door and the insect attacked again, a close pass thistime, almost in my hair, and I whirled and Ali was grinning wickedly.

He explained how it was done. "You gotta make sure your hand is goodand dry and then you rub your thumb hard across the side of your indexfinger, like this, see, making a vibrating noise, and hold it behindsomebody's ear, sneak up on 'em, and they think it's killer bees."

He grinned like a kid "I catch people all the time," he said. "It never

fails."A long black limousine from NBC was gliding up the driveway, and Aliwas ready to go to work. This was going to be Diana Ross' first night asguest host of the "Tonight" show, and Ali was going to be her first guest.And then, after the taping, Ali had a treat for his wife, Veronica, and theirlittle girl, Hana. They were going to the movies. What movie were theygoing to see? Rocky II, of course. A special screening had beenarranged, and Ali was going to play movie critic.

"Rocky Part Two," Ali intoned, "starring Apollo Creed as Muhammad Ali."

The taping went smoothly, with Ali working Diana Ross like a good fight.He kidded her about her age, leaned over to read her notes, got in aplug for his official retirement benefit, and made her promise to sing at

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the party.

And then the heavyweight champion of the world was back in anotherlimousine, a blue and beige Rolls-Royce this time, heading back home toa private enclave off Wilshire Boulevard. It was a strange and wonderfultrip, because during the entire length of the seven-mile journey, not oneperson who saw Ali in the car failed to recognize him, to wave at him, toshout something. Ali says he is the most famous person in the world. Hemay be right.

He gave his fame, to be sure, a certain assistance. He sat in the frontseat, next to the driver, and watched as drivers in the next lane orpedestrians on the sidewalk did their double takes. First, they'd see the

Rolls, a massive, classic model. Then they'd look in the back seat. nofamous faces there. Idly, they'd glance in the front seat, and Ali wouldalready be regarding them, and then their faces would break into grins ofastonishment, and Ali would clench his fist and give them a victory sign.This was not a drive from Burbank to Wilshire Boulevard - it was ahero's parade.

Back home, waiting for Veronica to come downstairs so they could go tothe movies, Ali sat close to a television set in his study. His longtimeadministrative assistant, Jeremiah Shabazz, talked about crowds andrecognition. "The biggest single crowd was in South Korea. I think thewhole country turned out. Manila was almost a riot; they almost tore theairport down. All over Russia, they knew him But Korea was amazing."

Ali ignored the conversation. He is a man who chooses the times whenhe will acknowledge the presence of others, and the times when he willnot. There are moments when he seems so intensely self-absorbed,even in a roomful of people, that he seems lonely and withdrawn. He

was like that now, until his daughter, Hana, walked in and demanded tobe taken into his lap, and then he spoke to her softly.

"What's Veronica say?" he asked Cleve Walker, an old Chicago friendwho was visiting.

"She's coming right down," Walker said.

"Then let's go."

The five cars pulled out of the mansion's driveway like a presidentialprocession. Ali drove his own Mercedes, second in line, following an aidewho was leading the way to United Artists' headquarters out on the oldMGM lot. All five cars had their emergency flashers blinking the wholeway: It was the day's second parade.

Rumors of Ali's visit had preceded him to the studio and a crowd ofyoung kids was waiting for him in the parking lot. He shook their hands,told them to hang in there, touched them on the shoulders, and left them

standing as if blessed by royalty.And then he was inside a private screening room and settling down towatch the most popular movie of the summer - the sequel to the moviethat won the Academy Award as Best Picture two years ago, and madeSylvester Stallone into a star as Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia clubfighter who took on the black heavyweight champion of the world. Ali,who said he'd really liked the original Rocky, settled down in the backrow, Veronica and Hana next to him, and if he was reflecting that Rockyitself might very likely not have been made if he had not restored thefading glamour of boxing, he did not say so.

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He watched the opening scenes of Rocky II in silence, not speaking untilthe scene in which Apollo Creed, the heavyweight champ, delivers atelevised challenge designed to taunt Rocky back into the ring.

"That's me, all right," Ali said "Apollo sounds like me. Insulting theopponent in the press, to get him psyched out. That's me exactly."

Back home at Rocky's new house, the doorbell rang.

"You know who that's gotta be," Ali said. "That's gotta be his trainer."And, yes, Rocky opened the door and his old trainer, Mickey, wasstanding there on the doorstep.

"That's how Angelo Dundee used to get me," Ali remembered. "A goodtrainer knows a good fighter can't stand to have people talk about himbad on television."

Mickey was giving Rocky advice: "We got to get you fighting with yourother hand. Use your right, save your left, protect that bad eye . . ."

"It just maybe could be," Ali said, "that if you started on a kid atseventeen or eighteen, by the time he was twenty-two you could changethe hand he leads with. But not overnight it can't be done."

Now Mickey was drawing on his ancient store of boxing lore, makingRocky chase chickens to improve his footwork. "That's one that goesback to the days of Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, chasing chickens," Alisaid. "you don't see chickens at a training camp anymore except on thetable."

Mickey was leaning fiercely at Rocky, who was pounding a bag "Jab!Jab! Jab!" he was shouting.

"With a great fighter," said Ali, "you don't have to tell him that. He goesat the bag like a robot. I never had anybody tell me to jab. If you don'twant to jab, what are you doing being a fighter?"

Now there was a wider shot showing Mickey's gym, with Rocky in theforeground and the background occupied by a dozen fighters workingout, jumping rope, sparring.

"What you see here, if you know how to look for it" Ali explained, "is the

difference between real fighters and actors. A real boxer can seeStallone's not a boxer. He's not professional, doesn't have the moves.It's good acting, but it's not boxing. Look in the background. Look at thatguy in the red trunks back there. You can see he's a real fighter."

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Now Rocky was in the ring with a sparring partner. "The other guy's areal fighter," Ali said. "Stallone doesn't have the moves It's perfectacting, though. The regular average layman couldn't see what I see. Andthe way they're painting the trainer is all wrong. Look at him there,screaming, Do this! and Do that! I never had anyone telling me what todo. I did it. Shouting at the fighter like that makes him look like ananimal, like a horse to be trained."

Is there any way, I asked, that the character of Rocky is inspired byyou?

"No way. Rocky doesn't act nothing like me. Apollo Creed, the way hedances, the way he jabs, the way he talks . . . That's me." On thescreen, a moment of crisis had appeared in Rocky Balboa's life. Aftergiving birth to Rocky Jr., his wife had slipped into a coma. Rocky had

just left the bedside and was praying in the hospital chapel.

"Now he don't feel like fighting because his wife is sick," Ali said. "That'sabsolutely the truth. The same thing happened to me when I was intraining camp during one of my divorces. You can't keep your mind onfighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep yourconcentration. You feel like sleeping all the time. But now at this point,I'm gonna make a prediction. I haven't seen the movie, but I predictshe's gonna get well, and then Rocky's gonna beat the hell out of ApolloCreed."

Back in the hospital room, Rocky's wife opened her eyes. Ali nodded."My first prediction is proven right," he said.

Rocky's wife turned to him and said, "There's one thing I want you to dofor me. Win."

"Yeah!" said Ali. "Beat that nigger's ass!"

Little Rocky Jr. was brought into the room by a nurse. The baby had ahead of black hair that would have qualified him for the Beatles. Alilaughed with delight. "They got a baby to win the Academy Award. Lookat that Italian hair! Rocky couldn't deny the baby in court in real life!"

Now there was a montage, as Rocky Balboa threw himself into histraining regime with renewed fury. "That's right," said Ali. "He's happynow. He's got his woman back I'm gonna further predict that in the bigfight, they're gonna make it look at first like Rocky's losing, and his eyewill be cut and it will look the worst before he wins, and that after themovie the men will be crying louder than the women."

Rocky was weight-lifting: "The worst thing a boxer can do. It tightens themuscles. A fighter never lifts weights. But it looks good in the movie."

In an inspirational scene, Rocky was running through the streets of hisnative Philadelphia, trailed by a crowd of cheering children who followedhim all the way up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rockygave his trademark victory salute, repeated from the most famousmoment in the original Rocky.

"Now that's one thing that some people will say is artificial, all thecrowds running after him, but that's real," Ali said. "I had the same kindacrowds follow me in New York."

And now it was time for Rocky II's climactic fight scene - longer, moreviolent and more grueling than the bravado ending of the original Rocky.In his dressing room, Apollo Creed, played by Carl Weathers, was

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Apollo Creed, from watching my movies," Ali said. "The way he's fightingin the mirror, those aren't real fighting moves, but for the movie they lookgood. And the motivation here is right. Apollo, he won the first fight, butsome people said Rocky should have won. If you lose a big fight, it willworry you all of your life. It will plague you, until you get your revenge.As the champion, almost beat by a club fighter, he has to have hisrevenge."

Could a club fighter in real life stay in the ring with the heavyweightchampion?

"No. What he might be able to do, he might be able to come in andabsorb an amount of punishment and wait and get a lucky shot and

knock him out . . . with the odds being very high against that. But to stayin the ring, to stay with the champion, he couldn't do that."

And now, on the screen, Rocky Balboa had fallen to his knees and waspraying in the locker room, and Muhammad Ali, his daughter Hanaasleep in his arms, was completely absorbed in the scene.

As Rocky got back to his feet, Ali broke the spell. "The most scarymoment in a fighter's life is right now. The moment before the fight, inyour dressing room, all the training is behind you, all the advice in theworld don't mean a thing, in a moment you'll be in the ring, everyone ison the line, and you . . . are . . . scared."

Apollo Creed and Rocky Balboa came dancing down the aisles of thePhiladelphia Spectrum, and shots showed Rocky's wife at home,nervously watching television, and Apollo's wife at ringside, nervouslywatching her husband.

"Even Apollo's wife favors my wife Veronica," Ali observed "They're bothlight-skinned, real pretty girls . . ."

Apollo was taunting Rocky. "You're going down! I'll destroy you! I am themaster of disaster."

"Those first two lines, those are my lines," Ali mused. "That 'master ofdisaster' . . . I like that I wish I'd thought of that."

And now the fight was under way, Rocky and Apollo trading punishment,Apollo keeping up a barrage of taunts, and dancing out of Rocky's way.Between rounds, in the fighters' corners, their trainers were desperatelypumping out instructions.

"My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds," Ali said. "I don't allowhim to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's toolate for advice."

How long do you predict the fight will last?

"Hard to say. Foreman they stopped in eight, Liston they stopped ineight . . . the movie might take something from that I can't predict. Butlook at that. There's Apollo using my rope-a-dope defense."

In the tenth round, Ali nodded: "Here's where the great fighters get theirsecond wind, where determination steps in." On the screen, Rocky wastaking a terrible beating, and his eyes, as Ali had predicted, were badlyswollen.

"In a real fight," Ali said, "they would never allow the eyes to be closedthat much and let the fight keep going. They would stop it."

But in Rocky II they didn't stop it, and the fight went the full distance, Aliobserving that in real life no fighter could absorb as much punishment asboth Apollo and Rocky had, and then the theater was filled with theRocky theme and the lights were on and Ali's entourage was applaudingthe movie.

Muhammad Ali got up carefully, so as not to wake Hana, and handed his

daughter to Veronica."A great movie," he said. "A big hit. It has all the ingredients. Love,violence, emotion. The excitement never dulled."

What do you think about the way the fight turned out?

"For the black man to come out superior," Ali said, "would be againstAmerica's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to createan image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract myimage in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matterwhere it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky."

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Thanks so much for this personal glimpse of the great Ali. Have you seen the doc

"Facing Ali"? Apparently, it's been shortlisted for the Best Doc Oscar. It's a beautiful

collection of stories from the men who stepped into the ring with Ali and lived to tell.

Thank you for continuing to enlighten and inspire with your writings on film and on life.

Big love to you from Chilliwack, BC.

By Joe Norton on January 17, 2010 2:18 PM

I could whip any of those punk-asses in my prime -- Rocky, Apollo, AND Ali.

I am the greatest bullshitter of all time!

By Gary in Phoenix, Arizona on January 17, 2010 3:48 PM

What a treat to get Ali's analysis. We get a champion's take on a championship fight,

and a good look at Ali the mosquito trickster, doting father, prognosticator and bon

vivant. This one's a heck of a scrapbook page!

By Tom Dark on January 17, 2010 5:40 PM

That man did more than box. He inspired generations to allow themselves to say "I'm

good"

in a culture that regarded it as a sin not to hide your light under a basket.

By Wael Khairy on January 17, 2010 6:00 PM

Great article. Ali is as entertaining as it gets in and out of the ring. I used to watch every

single boxing match of Ali as a ten year old kid.

"In real life no fighter could absorb as much punishment as both Apollo and Rocky had"

what about LaMotta? He took a beating from Sugar Ray and was still on his feet. I

wonder how Ali would reply to this response, he always said Sugar Ray was his hero.

Anyway,I loved that piece Roger thank you. It felt like a dvd commentary by the great

Ali.

By Sean McCann on January 27, 2010 11:25 AM

Great article! Ali was always as acrobatic with words and wit as he was with boxing. I

wish I was around when he was champ.

By Don O'Brien on April 12, 2010 11:54 AM

A comment from the entry on Malcom McLaren led me to this entry, which I somehowoverlooked. Ali is such a fascinating character. The fact that a man with such a critical

view on race in the U.S. is revered, is astounding.

As much as I enjoyed the Rocky movies, I did feel they were a critique of the Ali

persona. I've read that the Mickey character in the original screenplay for Rocky was a

racist, and that the studios made Stallone re-write the character as sympathetic. I think

the tension between the Ali-character portrayal and a racist Mickey (aligned with Rocky)

could have been fascinating. I wonder what Stallone's original intentions were.

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