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Peggy Scruggs

INFORMATION_ARCHITECTURE

INFORMATION_ARCHITECTURE_272_PROPOSAL

Undisputed is a 2002 American sports drama film written, produced and directed by Walter

Hill.The film stars Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk, Michael Rooker, Jon Seda, Wes

Studi, Fisher Stevens, and Master P.

Undisputed was released in the United States on August 23, 2002.The film performed

poorly at the box-office and received mixed reviews from critics; nevertheless it later found

success in the home video market.The movie later launched a titular franchise, including

three sequels.== Plot ==

Heavyweight boxing champion George 'The Iceman' Chambers is convicted of rape and

sentenced to six to eight years at Sweetwater, a new prison in the Mojave desert.The high-

security facility is populated by hardened criminals.Unaware of the prison's ways and its

unique hierarchy, the pompous and bratty Chambers tries to impress upon the inmates his

status as a champion boxer.The prison camp has a competition on which a betting syndicate

thrives.Criminals fight in boxing matches with very lax rules, thus making it a very addictive

and lucrative venture for the syndicate.The most popular boxer behind bars is Sweetwater's

soft-spoken, humble undefeated Monroe "Undisputed" Hutchen, who ends up in solitary

confinement after Chambers picks a fight with him in the mess hall.Flashbacks to Hutchen's

own boxing career shows that he had been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole

for beating to death a man who was sleeping with his girlfriend.Sensing the brewing hatred

for the heavyweight champion, an incarcerated mob boss named Ripstein senses potential

in a match between Hutchen and Chambers.Ripstein, a lifelong boxing fan, proposes a match
and Warden Lipscomb is persuaded to look the other way.As all the arrangements are

finally organized, an eagerly awaited fight night arrives.Chambers knocks down Hutchen

twice (and with the London Prize Ring Rules, each knockdown counts as the end of a round,

as the boxer is given only 60 seconds to get up).In the third round, Hutchen charges back

and knocks Chambers down for the first time in his career, sending the crowd of prisoners

into a frenzy.Finally, in the fourth round Hutchen officially KO's Chambers to become the

undisputed champion.Ripstein's Mexican assistant reveals; in a narrator voice, that Ripstein

died three weeks after the fight, but in his will, he left him $2 million.Chambers was

released on parole, and Hutchen received the money for his sister, who was experiencing

hardship.It is also revealed that Chambers and his manager denied that the fight with

Hutchen ever occurred, and that it was all a rumor.Months later, Chambers wins back the

Heavyweight Championship of the World.The whole cell block watches the televised fight,

and laugh and cheer Monroe's name after hearing Chambers being crowned the

"undisputed" heavyweight champion of the world.== Cast ==

== Production ==

=== Development and writing ===

The film was based on an original script by Walter Hill and David Giler.Hill had just come off

the science fiction film Supernova on which he had been recut by Francis Ford Coppola

among others."One, it was embarrassing and, two, it made me think about quitting," said

Hill."While Coppola's intentions were honorable, I think he made a bad situation worse.I

didn't do anything for a year.I was fortunate enough that I could buy my children a hot
lunch.Then, I decided I wanted to work again."Hill had always wanted to make a boxing film,

being a fan of the sport since he was young."Boxing is easy to indict," says Hill."There are a

lot of terrible things about boxing.However, that's only one side of the coin.The other side is

that boxing has a power and a beauty and a drama and fascination that makes it a very

compelling sport."Hill and Giler were having lunch one day and discussed Mike Tyson, who

was sentenced to prison for rape in 1992.Giler said they thought "it's amazing how no

studio has made a film out of this basic situation of the heavyweight champion of the world

going to prison, the toughest environment in the world," said Giler.Hill went and wrote

some paragraphs about the idea then he and Giler wrote a full script.However Hill says

while the Tyson case was the departure point, "There are a number of prize fighters who

have been in trouble with the law.Our story looks at how a tough guy and celebrity would

handle life in prison.The more we wrote, the more we wrote away from the Tyson

story."Hill says he was really interested in what happened when "a heavyweight champion

goes to the toughest environment possible in American culture, the American prison

system.""What we tried to show is how, under odd circumstances, a convicted murderer

and a convicted rapist are capable of a moment of grace," said Hill."They're both heroic."The

film refuses to say if the champion boxer was actually guilty."It is absolutely ambiguous in

this movie, ambiguous in the sense that it is very clear that he believes himself to be

innocent.It is also absolutely clear that the woman involved believes herself to have been

abused and raped...If you want to know what I suspect, I suspect they're both right.It has to

do with different terms, different values and different understanding of the basic compact

when men and women go to bed together."

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