![]() ![]() We see a fighter bleeding badly from a wound near his eye. But Frankie would work every angle he could to turn a bad situation around in the ring. Of course, Scrap’s words can apply to life in general. Scrap says there are times one can’t do anything about how the fight is going, the cut is too close to the bone, or there has been a severing of a vein, and that all our efforts can’t make a difference. ![]() Scrap (whose nickname can imply that all that has been left him are life’s “scraps,” or that he is “scrappy”) informs us that Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) is a great “cut” man, fixing up boxers in the corner between rounds. Scrap’s words provide information about the fight game, but he also has a bigger picture wisdom that adds insight to the movie’s characters and events. As in Goodfellas, the narration does not replace the visual, but enhances it. I talked about the successful use of a voice-over last week in Goodfellas, and director Clint Eastwood (Oscar winner for his direction here) uses it effectively by having the character Eddie “Scrap Iron” Dupris (Morgan Freeman, Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor) provide it here (Eastwood must have decided that Freeman’s narration was such a positive part of The Shawshank Redemption that he would try it again).
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