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	Boxer Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boxer activity developed in Shandong province in March 1898 in response to both foreign penetration and the failure of the Imperial court's "self-strengthening" strategy of officially-directed development, whose shortcomings had been shown graphically in China's defeat by Japan in 1895.
		Despite their efforts, the Boxer rebels were unable to break into the compound, which was relieved by the international army of the Eight-Nation Alliance in July.
		The United States was able to play a significant role in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion because of the large number of American ships and troops deployed in the Philippines as a result of the U.S. conquest of the islands during the Spanish American War (1898) and subsequent Philippine insurgent activity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boxer_Rebellion (1839 words)

	Review: The Boxer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the center of all the turmoil is Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis), a boxer by trade and a Catholic native of Belfast by birth.
		The Boxer's story is presented with a sense of overwhelming pathos and sadness, and it's not hard to empathize with the characters' despair.
		The Boxer is the fourth film in twelve months to deal with the situation in Northern Ireland (it follows in the wake of Some Mother's Son, which was co-written by Sheridan and Terry George, The Devil's Own, and Nothing Personal).
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/boxer.html (985 words)

	The Boxer Rebellion, 1900
		The Boxers were very superstitious, believing in spells and magic that would mean they were immune to western bullets and such incantations would be used to create a trance like state among the followers.
		The Boxers were not above using printing presses to publish huge numbers of leaflets spreading their propaganda accusing the catholic church of abusing Chinese women and children.
		Boxer attacks and destruction of the tracks led to delay after delay and finally the Force decided to halt at Hsiku when they discovered they had captured a Chinese army depot with food and supplies.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/wars_boxer.html (1748 words)

	The Boxer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Boxer, which marks the third collaboration as director and star between Jim Sheridan and Daniel Day-Lewis, is set against the present-day Troubles in Ireland but is foremost a story of love and redemption.
		Post-ceasefire Belfast serves as a tense and powerful backdrop for a film which is both a pleasingly intense romance and a convincing portrayal of attitudes within a republican community.
		One-time boxer Danny 'Boy' Flynn is released from jail after serving 14 years for IRA-related activities and returns home to Belfast in a bid to re-start his life and return to the ring.
	www.btinternet.com /~pyxisgazette/boxer.htm (375 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Film \| Body and Soul \| 1998-01-28
		Its sexuality can't be separated from its spirituality; the heroine has a grip on her man not because of her high-quality pheromones but because she holds the key to his soul.
		In American films, the loner is apt to be the new guy in town, unattached and unencumbered.
		The Boxer is a wonderful movie because it recognizes that even a morally scarred IRA warlord may wish to transcend the gory politics of bombs and guns.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/1998-01-28/film/film.html (1173 words)

	The Boxer (R, 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sheridan and co-writer Terry George take a different approach: the tone of their film is more sad and regretful than anything else, augmented partly by their decision to shoot most of the scenes in bluish, hazy cinematography.
		Films that receive the three-star rating from me generally fall into two categories: those that are only moderately ambitious in the first place and just try to entertain for a little while (e.g.
		The Boxer is an example of the latter: the execution is sloppy in a few places, but its heartfelt examination of the "Troubles" is enough to make it a good film.
	members.aol.com /KTPattersn/boxer.html (639 words)

	The Boxer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Boxer, a love story set to the backdrop of the divisiveness in Belfast, Northern Ireland, can hold its own in the company of My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father.
		The boxing segments, disappointingly, are not filmed as effectively as they could be; they're hazy and shot too distant to feel the jabbing immediacy.
		The film's simplicity is its strength and weakness.
	www.citylinkmagazine.com /culture/movies/boxer.htm (429 words)

	THE BOXER
		Obviously the film uses boxing as a metaphor of the warring conflict between the Irish and the Protestants, and when Danny won't finish a pummeled boxer in the ring, it's symbolic of his withdrawal from the IRA and his general nonviolent stand (even though he's participating in a very violent sport).
		Overall, however, the film never felt like it was running at full speed or on all cylinders, and thus leaves the impression that there could have been more.
		A film mixing elements of IRA terrorism and boxing will certainly have its share of blood and violence and "The Boxer" is no exception.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1997/the_boxer.html (2305 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| Violence rules \| 1998-01-08
		The Boxer is very observant about the ways in which women are enlisted in the IRA cause.
		There are passages in this film that recall the best moments in Welcome to Sarajevo, such as the scene at night where Danny is jumping rope in his flat and suddenly narrowly misses a bullet through the window as the streets below erupt in mayhem.
		He's upstaged by the way the film dwells on IRA machinations and the look and feel of the Belfast streets, and as well done as that material is here, it's nothing new.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1998-01-08/film3.html (1187 words)

	The Boxer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A promising boxer in his teens, he longs to return to the ring, where the fighting has rules and where character, not ideology, matters.
		Day-Lewis is very credible as a boxer, having physically transformed himself with his usual Method obsessiveness into a craggy, chiseled scrapper.
		Theirs is the most adult romance of any recent film, as their shared awareness of a lifetime of consequences and costs plays out continuously on their faces.
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/01/09/THE_BOXER.html (675 words)

	Willamette Week - Screen Review: The Boxer - Jan. 14, 1998
		There are film titles that on the surface appear simple and clean, but underneath boil with mysterious intensity.
		These films take their titles seriously in that they define not only what their protagonists do for a living, but what they represent.
		These films also add artistic weight to their archetypal figures and stories by injecting them with personal style: Hill and Melville use near-wordless minimalism, while Robson uses action and sharply written dialogue.
	www.wweek.com /html/boxer.html (785 words)

	Untitled Document
		This film is included in this short list of text because it shows a different perspective on the Northern Ireland situation than do the others.
		Other important connections to this time period in Northern Ireland made in the film are references to prisoner's wives and the ceasefire attempt of 1997.
		Maggie, played by Emily Watson, represents the average prisoner's wife, and depicts the struggle some faced when they fell in love with another man. The IRA's silent demand of faithfulness to the prisoner's wives is shown by the other wives' violence towards Maggie when she shows compassion to Danny.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~hynes/309K/student_websites/Withers/TheBoxerPage.htm (380 words)

	Ken Stott - Being Human
		Once a promising young boxer, he is freed after a 14 year prison sentence for IRA activities.
		The Boxer is the work of acclaimed director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In The Name Of The Father).
		The Boxer is still available to buy on video and DVD, with the latter featuring extras such as documentaries, an alternate ending, cut scenes, etc*.
	www.kenstott.info /boxer.htm (293 words)

	Warsaw Voice - The Boxer
		In The Boxer, director Jim Sheridan tries to capture the sectarian muddle of Belfast, but he does so at the expense of the story.
		The Boxer has admirable intentions and a thought-provoking subject, but it is too subtle and too hung up on the irreconcilabilities of Northern Ireland to steal the mainstream viewer's sympathies.
		Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a boxer and an ex-IRA man. After doing 14 years in jail, he is released into the battleground that created him.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/8293 (476 words)

	National Review: The Boxer. (book reviews) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a film replete with plot and multiform excitement, but at the center of it is a love story as moving as ever reached out from the screen, and one to which script, direction, acting, and cinematography contributed in equal measure.
		Boisterous as it is, a pair of young dancers are sternly separated: the girl is the wife of a prisoner and must abide by the exaggerated abstinence strictly enforced so as to maintain the morale of jailed husbands.
		Above, throughout the film, the air teams with helicopters, ceaselessly surveying, but concerned only with interfaith clashes; to the Catholics in internecine slaughter, on whom the film focuses, these eyes of heaven are blind.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20370974&refid=ip_almanac_hf (1168 words)

	The American Experience \| America 1900 \| The Film & More
		In the summer of 1900, as the Boxers are besieging the foreign ligation in Beijing and threatening to kill all of the foreigners they can get their hands on, McKinley has to make a historic decision.
		There are now vivid pictures of the Boxers rebels who were captured being decapitated with their heads put on poles outside the ligations.
		The outcome of the Boxer Rebellion is in a short term the United States and the other imperial powers won and beat back the Boxers and massacred a number of the Boxers.
	www.pbs.org /search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/filmmore/reference/interview/lafeber_boxerrebellion.html (814 words)

	EfreeBuy :: The Boxer (Collector's Edition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But the film looks at the problem, at the Good Friday Agreement through the eyes of persons, of individuals, both Catholics who have political or military power and Catholics who are just plain simple ordinary men, women or children.
		The film is admirable in its reserve and moderation : it shows the situations, the passions of all these people but it keeps some dignity even in cases when butchery would be a better word for assassination.
		There are a number of deleted scenes that probably should have been left in to complete the lack of continuity between some of the characters' relationships; particularly the prison scene between Maggie and her husband (they talk about 'prisoner's wives' but we never see the prisoners).
	www.efreebuy.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0783227329 (1971 words)

	The Boxer
		Wong Kar-Wai got away with this in "Happy Together" because his films are visual dynamos, his style is fragmentary, he has an instinctive radar for finding the emotional heart of scenes and he knows how to pace a film to hold interest.
		Sheridan is a workmanlike director and this sort of improvisation doesn't work because his films rely heavily on narrative and aren't visually inventive.
		This is based on a true story, and there's terrific potential to explore moral choices - whether violence is ever justified, the moral dichotomy of a pacifist boxer, the allegiance of a woman to her husband and father or to her lover, and the sheer tragedy of wasted lives.
	www.eclipse.net /~tyrell/c_i_n_e_m_a/98_Films/The_Boxer/the_boxer.html (996 words)

	The Boxer - About The Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The film reunites writer-director Sheridan with Day-Lewis after having successfully teamed on Universal's In The Name Of The Father, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Actor and Director, and My Left Foot, for which Day-Lewis won an Oscar® as Best Actor.
		As a boxer determined to restore himself in the ring, he is capable of resurrecting his people's self-respect.
		Equally important, women in The Boxer are ruled by the code that exerts tremendous influence in the oppressed culture of Northern Ireland.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=boxer&File=productn (2655 words)

	Film Review: The Boxer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the force of an expert punch, The Boxer precisely (and bluntly) delivers its emotional story, effectively drawing the audience into a world where violence and hatred are ingrained into individuals and society.
		Just as Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) is released from prison after a 14-year stint, a cease-fire is being negotiated to bring a respite to the sectarian violence and cycle of killing that have come to define life in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
		In the case of The Boxer, what they don't know is how to engage the mind as strongly as the heart.
	www.metrotimes.com /movies/filmarchive/18/16/18_16boxer.html (341 words)

	The Boxer (1997) - A Review by David Nusair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Boxer is the latest collaboration between star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan.
		While the film isn't excellent like In the Name of the Father, it is still very good.
		The film tells the story of a man (Day-Lewis) just released from a 13 year prison sentence, which he served for IRA activities.
	www.reelfilm.com /boxer.htm (331 words)

	The Boxer
		The Boxer is exactly the kind of film you would expect from a talent of this sort.
		Boxer Daniel Day Lewis emerges from prison after fifteen years and returns to his war torn ghetto in an attempt to rebuild his life and rekindle his relationship with his old girlfriend, (Emily Watson), now married.
		Funnily enough, on the surface, the pace of the film is slow and deliberate in the manner of second cinema, and its emphasis on characters framed by a social and political environment might well be considered along the same lines.
	homepage.eircom.net /~obrienh/box.htm (704 words)

	O'Connell Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the intriguing prison release-wedding reception opening, the film plods along so slowly you begin to wonder if the tension-filled television commercials advertising the film were some sort of joke.
		But the bulk of the film deals with Danny's insistence that he be allowed to try, at least, to resume his once-promising boxing career and relationship with Maggie.
		The second half of The Boxer is much more engaging than the first; once the plot (Danny and Maggie's growing love) and subplot (the split within the IRA) are fully established, the pace quickens, and Sheridan's message — something along the lines of "Can't we all just get along?" — shines through.
	www.oconnellstreet.com /boxer.htm (550 words)

	The Boxer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A dull waste of Emily Watson and Daniel Day Lewis's talents, The Boxer is a romance-cum-IRA-drama that fails as either, largely due to slipshod characterization and horribly cliched plotting.
		For all its focus on the Troubles, there's little work needed to turn this to a cloyingly sentimental forties film about a reformed gangster returning back to his still crime-riddled neighborhood.
		The utter lack of originality could be forgiven if there was any spark of life to the film, but there is simply none.
	www.panix.com /~crodell/97film/boxer.html (223 words)

	Bath University Film Society Reviews: The Boxer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Possibly, but nonetheless this is a powerful film, with intense performances from Day-Lewis as ex-IRA member and boxing hero Danny Flynn, and Emily Watson as his old sweetheart Maggie.
		By homing in on the relationship (and opposition to it) between Maggie and Danny as he attempts to make his comeback after release from prison, Sheridan and George try to show in microcosm the misunderstandings, lingering bitterness and bigotry which threaten the peace process as a whole.
		The result is a film using old fighting clichés, a contrived plot, and which seems to be a little unsure of itself - being neither a sports movie, a romance or a political drama.
	www.bath.ac.uk /~su0bufs/films/TheBoxer.html (176 words)

	True Luminaries: Chris Menges - page 1
		Cinematographer Chris Menges infused the film with cool blue tones to capture both the mood of the story and the true sense of light that exists in Northern Ireland.
		The penultimate match in The Boxer was filmed within a vast soundstage at Ardmore Studios near Dublin.
		Menges attributes the film's timeliness to director Sheridan's tenacity and his willingness to abruptly alter his script according to the then-shifting political situation in Northern Ireland.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/jun98/lumin/pg1.htm (1893 words)

	Film & TV: With This Ring (The Boston Phoenix . 01-12-98)
		A script written by Jim Sheridan and Terry George (In the Name of the Father, Some Mother's Son) and directed by Sheridan (Father).
		Actually, in contrast to Father and Some Mother's Son, The Boxer is an entirely fictional story, and only the opening scene is set in Belfast's notorious Maze Prison.
		Watson, too, is reined in (especially compared to her all-stops-pulled-out debut in Breaking the Waves), making it seem like an act of courage just to thaw slowly, as she does over the course of the story.
	weeklywire.com /ww/01-12-98/boston_movies_2.html (707 words)

	Syracuse New Times: Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Both plot elements of The Boxer share undeniable rings of truth, with the realistic fighting scenes in particular, handled with no-nonsense authority, never threatening to overwhelm the romantic elements.
		Still, Sheridan finesses a documentary-style flavor that lends an atmospheric credence to his tale, such as an early scene with IRA leader Hamill ushered through a series of hidden rooms in order to preside over a covert wedding reception.
		The Boxer may not be a cinematic knockout, but it does manage to go the emotional distance.
	newtimes.rway.com /films/boxer.htm (268 words)

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