In between had been his eight-month marriage to actress Robin Givens (“We were just kids”) and a developing taste for strong women he enjoyed dominating sexually. Allowing that, while D’Amato was still alive, he had followed the traditional fighters’ rule of abstaining from sex prior to a fight, Tyson admits he was suffering from gonorrhea contracted from a prostitute when he fought Berbick and that his hyperactivity with women in Japan, combined with insufficient training, contributed to his first loss, to Buster Douglas, in 1990. Even now, Tyson chokes up when speaking of what D’Amato meant to him, which is just one of several moving interludes the picture delivers.ĭ’Amato passed away in 1985, a year before Tyson demolished Trevor Berbick to become, at 20, the youngest man ever to win the heavyweight championship.īut while no man was tough enough to take Tyson for some time, his Achilles’ heel proved to be women, a subject Toback gets his subject to address with seeming frankness.
Whatever private fears Tyson may have harbored, one notices in the fight footage that he always psychologically dominated his opponents from the moment he stepped into the ring. The docu covers some well-worn ground - introduced to boxing at age 12 in juvee, Tyson had the great fortune to be taken under wing by legendary fight trainer Cus D’Amato, who became the father the boy never had - and adds some wonderful early ’80s homevideo footage, which amplifies the verbal impression Tyson offers of D’Amato as a veritable Michelangelo who took the raw material offered by Tyson’s physique and sculpted it into a pugilistic masterpiece.ĭ’Amato helped Tyson master the mental side of the game. Not long after, however, he was so infuriated when a thug gratuitously killed one of his pet pigeons that Tyson went wild and beat the kid up.
At the time, he was too scared to fight back, and admits, “I’m afraid of being that way again.” Interviewed from multiple angles (sometimes in ’60s-style split-screen) and in different settings, Tyson early on reveals how, as a little kid on Brooklyn’s meanest streets, he was robbed and humiliated by older boys. In this complex portrait, which never pretends to be “objective” by offering others’ views of the subject, Tyson comes close to seeming like a multiple-personality case - he’s bright but untutored, childlike but brutish, naive but pensive, emotionally needy, excessive in all aspects of his life and, most impressively, willing to take responsibility for everything that’s happened to him - everything, that is, except the rape charge that landed him in prison for three years, something he swears innocence of and that still riles him like nothing else. The extent of the man’s thoughtfulness, self-awareness and hidden fears will surprise many, most of all non-fans who thought they had him pegged. Tyson seems like an open book here, willing to explore every aspect of his life, his painful and embarrassing missteps along with his extraordinary triumphs.
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$298.6 million The Owlette Movie is a 2018 Robloxian adventure science fiction comedy film.Making his second documentary, after 1990’s “The Big Bang,” Toback draws on his long friendship with the boxer (who appeared in Toback’s 1999 feature “Black and White”) by knowing where to probe and how to draw out the famously explosive athlete, even on the touchiest topics.
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