Norman Mailer, rechristened No'min, takes on the heart of Blackness
in darkest Africa as he plunges into the vital spirits of Muhammad
Ali and George Foreman in their recent Heavyweight title clash in
Zaire (once the huge protectorate of the Congo), and comes up a
winner. What No'min wins may not be definable outside an Occult
Prose seminar, but it has something to do with Bantu mysticism as
exemplified in Ali the Lip's supreme professorship of the art of
pugilism and Foreman's gigantic serenity of lionesque rage. Truly,
No'min's hypnoprose works wonders at engaging our interest and
transubstantiating it into an awe commensurate with the bash's
press coverage, a five-million-dollar gate, and worldwide TV
attention. Indeed, the book at its weird best has something of the
inner control of Conrad steaming upriver through fogs of Black
emotion, Black psychology and Black love - though all is admittedly
"a quintessentially comic quest. Boxers were liars. Champions were
great liars." Nor is that great boxing expert in the Beyond and
author of Green Hills of 33 Africa ever far from No'min's bag of
conjuries. By fight time the reader has been artfully hoodooed into
expecting more from the match than anyone but Mailer saw in it -
and amazingly delivers. Mailer's mask as narcissistic clown is cut
down to a caper or two; instead he divides our hearts between Ali
and Foreman. Surely Papa is at last sending down his personal
vibration to No'min: "Well and truly done, my son. Go in peace to
the bar." (Kirkus Reviews)
Michael Mann's biopic Ali starring Will Smith, Jon Voight and Jamie Foxx opens on general release in January 2002. Read more about Muhammad Ali in the Penguin Modern Classic The Fight. With the real Muhammed Ali involved in the filmmaking, Ali takes us straight into the heart of the ring, the strategy sessions and straight into the mind and body of the man. Will Smith trained for a year before filming, transforming himself from a 185 pound actor to a 220 pound athlete. Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds, two iron wills and monumental egos.
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