When CABE is victorious the PROMOTER is furious and vows to drive him out of the sport by making his life hell. The PROMOTER obviously does not want this nobody to win the match, spoiling the momentum of his upcoming title match. One of the men he loses to is someone he defeated with ease in high school, this is too much for him and he quits his day job at great financial risk (kid, dame?) in order to train full time – after being spotted in his last losing effort by the manager of the man who defeated him in the county championships, he is told he must face him as he is being lined up for a world title shot but must first get a couple more wins, CABE is seen as easy pickings and the manager and PROMOTER want an easy squash match – CABE knows this and it is spurring on his training and determination. We will see the toll that losing takes physically and on his soul. He will take severe beatings and lose badly. When CABE MACKSON first gets back into trying to wrestle, it is purely monetary – the equivalent of a journeyman boxer, the fact he did not go to college assuring the promoters he will lose – building the star power of their feature stars. Essentially this is the real world equivalent to amateur wrestlers moving into MMA which doesn’t exist in the world of the film. The difference between amateur and professional wrestling would be highlighted – a point being made that not everyone is cut out to be a professional as it is much more of a fight – a blend of technique and toughness, whereas amateur wrestling is much more structured and less dangerous. Therefore the reality of wrestling as a sport would mean it would blend with amateur wrestling and the route to college and then the pros as with other sports. The emphasis would be that this is real competition. It would give a reason as to why he is willing to put his body through the training and the beatings in the ring.) (To rise this above cliché the despondency and misery of this ordinary life must be palpable – like with Raging Bull the pain he feels in the ring must be secondary to this pain of failure and a life of mediocrity and wasted potential. The actual wrestling scenes would be “strong style” harkening back to the simulation of combat and competition rather than co-operative performance – although occasional spectacular “High Spots” could work.ĬABE MACKSON wrestled in high school but in the county championships he chokes and loses, his untimely failure was in front of College scouts and he misses out on a scholarship, ending up working a dead end job with his glory and potential left in his youth. In the world of the film wrestling is real – the theatrics are present but there is no question that it is real. So here is my loose treatment, I think i lack the discipline to write a full script, it’s a wrestling picture what do ya want a road map?Ī film about a wrestler and his journey to a world title fight. So I thought to myself – could I write a wrestling picture? One with that Barton Fink feeling? My attempts at scriptwriting have never gone well, the only one I ever completed was based on Bruce Springsteen’s song “Highway Patrolman,” the day I finished it I watched “The Indian Runner”directed by Sean Penn only to see in the opening credits “Inspired by Highway Patrolman by Bruce Springsteen” The question of whether Barton is a talent who is selling his soul to Hollywood or whether he is simply a self important hack is ambiguous in the film but judging by the reaction of the Capitol Studios boss to his script he failed to write a good wrestling picture. I watched Barton Fink again a few months ago it is a film I love and as I have before I found myself infuriated with Barton as he refuses to listen to John Goodman’s character who could give him real insight into his assignment of writing a wrestling picture.
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