Yet, to me, they all seem to be about the same thing: the pursuit of the American Dream. Many of your films tend to focus on those on the fringes of society – drug dealers, iconoclastic football players, etc. How True Is 'Respect'? Fact-Checking the Aretha Franklin Biopic But today, Dawg Fight finally makes its debut on Netflix, and the director spoke to Rolling Stone about the men willing to risk it all in the ring, and why those who focus purely on the punching are missing the point. The fight footage is plentiful, gory and uniformly horrifying, yet this is actually a film about people, poverty and the push to succeed against all odds.Ĭorben, who resides in South Florida, began working on the project six years ago – during that time, two of the fighters featured in his film died – and struggled to find distribution. A documentary about the brutal backyard fights staged in the impoverished community of West Perrine, Florida, it is less about the rise to the top as it is the permanent social stasis that keeps people on the bottom. With films like Cocaine Cowboys, Limelight and The U, director Billy Corben has documented the lives of cavalier drug smugglers, unrepentant nightclub impresarios and swaggering college athletes – subjects who rose to power and, inevitably, fell from grace.īut his new film, Dawg Fight, is different.
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