But without letting the images speak for themselves, Mike constantly undermines itself with self-reflexive commentary, not letting its most pivotal beats a chance to breathe without some sort of meta interjection.įrom the excessive narration and the slo-mo imagery to the exhausting camerawork and the on-the-nose soundtrack, Gillespie’s elaborate Scorsese cosplay is about as off-putting and clumsy as the writing’s forced levity and allergy to subtext. Such a heavy-handed style might sort of be the point, an aptly abrasive way of emulating the thrust of Tyson’s experiences. This blunt framing device - of Tyson addressing an anonymous audience, speaking directly to the camera, and gesturing at the slideshow of photos behind him - technically riffs on Undisputed Truth, Tyson’s one-man show from 2013, but ultimately stands as a lazy and overbearing attempt to immerse us in his struggles with the limelight. The first crucial mistake Mike makes is having each episode feature cutaways of an adult Tyson recalling details from his difficult childhood and relationships to an auditorium filled with nameless, faceless spectators. Even without Tyson’s creative involvement, Mike barely makes a dent. Like with Gillespie’s other unauthorized dramatization Pam & Tommy, Mike stirred controversy from Tyson himself, who lambasted Hulu for “stealing my story” and confirmed plans to produce a show of his own with Jamie Foxx playing him. The result is a thin and haphazard drama that does a disservice to the talent of its well-cast lead, and flattens the nuances behind Tyson’s complex background and tumultuous history.
Told across eight chapters in the Hulu miniseries Mike, Tyson’s journey is a tragic, all-too-familiar portrait of unresolved trauma, the painful pressures of fame, and how the intersection of the two reinforce an unrelenting cycle of self-destruction and hubris.Īn Automatic KO: Collaborating for the second time with I, Tonya screenwriter Steven Rogers, filmmaker Craig Gillespie’s newest directorial undertaking, Mike, adapts the life of infamous boxer Mike Tyson, spanning from his upbringing in the mid-70s to the late 2010s. Boxing promoter Don King ( Russell Hornsby) stepped in to support Tyson in averting these crises, but his own opportunistic agenda created even more financial and personal issues for the prizefighting champion.
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D’Amato even went as far as to act as a surrogate parent to the fatherless Tyson, a meaningful gesture were it not for D’Amato’s irony-free insistence that he’d help turn Tyson into “a beast” and “a monster.”Īs Tyson continued to embrace his celebrity lifestyle, a turbulent marriage to TV star Robin Givens ( Laura Harrier) and a credible rape allegation from beauty pageant queen Desiree Washington (Li Eubanks) quickly upended his momentum. Tyson’s prolific wins early in his burgeoning career earned him fame and wealth, launching the wunderkind from downtrodden obscurity into the bright and shiny American cultural spotlight. Fighting back seemed to be the easiest solution to the hate and hurt he faced, and the bloodier and harder his blows against his peers got, the stronger his determination to make a name for himself became.Īfter a few stints in juvenile detention, a teenage Tyson got the chance to take his street brawling to the ring with the guidance of renowned boxing trainer Cus D’Amato ( Harvey Keitel). Growing up in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyson dealt with brutal beatings from bullies as often as he received and witnessed verbal and physical lashings at home. He has a table at the 35th Annual Whateley Weapons Fair held in Fall 2006, where he sells Phase a touch taser glove.The Pitch: Violence has shaped much of Mike Tyson ( Trevante Rhodes)’s life. He appears with the Grunts most of the time they're together. And his hair wasn't chestnut red or ginger red, it was blood red, so it looked almost like he'd dyed it that color. He had Scandinavian features under red hair in a well-trimmed crewcut. Maps Recent Blog Posts Films Animated films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Sleeping Beauty The Little Mermaid Aladdin Beauty and the Beast The Lion King Tangled Frozen Pixar films Toy Story Monsters, Inc. He was handsome enough to have a lot of deviser girls swooning over him. He was a little over six feet tall, with a decent set of muscles on a medium build. Well, it was pretty tough to make him look at all nerdy, given that he looked like a hero in a Hollywood action movie. Carmilla strongly implied that he is in love with Bunker. His guidance counselor is Langley Paulson.
He lives in Melville Cottage He is a member of the Class of 2009. He's a devisor and electrical energizer who uses power armor in combat, and also rated as an Exemplar 3.
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Dale Carson, code name Slapdash, is a member of the Grunts and also the Parkour Hooligans.
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