When morgan freeman won the best supporting actor for million dollar baby. I found that really stupid, he just sat and stared and the only good deed he did in the whole movie is to punch that guy who was messing with the retard.
But i believe when Ihad formed that opinion I was too young to understand the gravity of his contribution to the movie.
Sometimes to act with clint eastwood you have to let him overshadow you, you have to supplement and not let your ego define your art.
When I saw the movie a couple of days back, the restraint he had shown during the whole movie in his acting, his attitude of accepting whatever is coming on his way and to tackle each and every situation with silence was just awe inspiring. It made me feel that how can a man of his calibre act a person with such minis ule presence.
The sequence which actually drives the point home is when the toilet is overflowing and a member of their gym tells nim to clean the pot, he shakes his head removes the lid and gets back to cleaning the toilet.
Similar restraint is shown through out the movie, hence when he tries to save the retard that scene stands in stark contrast of what he has stood for through out the movie.
The guy who he gives a beating loses his molar and to that Morgan Freeman speaks out a number. The number as per popular opinion is the number of men he K.O'd in the gym and those who also lost their teeth while brawling with the man.
It shows two qualities which we all strive for: one is acceptance of life as it is and the will to stand for what you presume as right and then doing right by it.
One more thing which my immature mind back then forgot to register was that he is the sutradhar, in theatre he is the person voicing concerns, adding and subtracting the progress of the story as the movie is progressing.
His heavy heart and the timber in his voice is one of the major attractions of the movie in question. Even in bucket seat he stands as a stark contrast for what jack nicholson stqnds for, the rich burgeoise.
To his light childish voice is his heavy and brutish voice. To his spoilt ways are his straight forward and honest to god life patterns.
To end this discussion it is prudent to assume that without morgan freeman, million dollar baby would not have ben the movie it was and still is.
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