The Great White Hype Movie (1996) Trailer - Plot Synopsis: The boxing champ's promoter thinks, change is needed. He finds the one man who's beaten his black champ (at 17), a white man now in a rock band. Like Rocky, he trains heavily whereas the champ slacks.
Director : Reginald Hudlin
Writers : Tony Hendra, Ron Shelton
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans
Director : Reginald Hudlin
Writers : Tony Hendra, Ron Shelton
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans
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00:00 ♪
00:01 [upbeat music]
00:02 [thud]
00:03 [thud]
00:04 [thud]
00:05 It feels like we're going to have a meltdown.
00:07 [thud]
00:08 [thud]
00:09 [thud]
00:10 This guy hurt you at all?
00:11 Not at all, not at all.
00:12 He hit me one time, and that was just to wake me up
00:14 because I was bored in there.
00:15 Bored?
00:16 The third round, that's right.
00:17 And otherwise, it was just like fighting my little sister.
00:19 ♪
00:20 ♪ I gave the ring to Breen ♪
00:21 ♪ Whole world from the brain ♪
00:23 ♪ Full of socks, full of money ♪
00:24 The world of boxing is not what it used to be.
00:27 Look at you now.
00:28 Who the champ now?
00:29 He's got a gun, didn't he?
00:30 I tell you, you're going to get your shot.
00:32 You ain't my daddy, are you?
00:34 But all that is about to change.
00:36 People are tired of paying good money
00:39 to watch brothers beat up brothers.
00:41 There ain't a white guy out there for you.
00:43 I'm going to create you one.
00:44 White, heavyweight, it's like saying black unity.
00:47 [gunshot]
00:48 I want you to return to the ring.
00:50 I don't fight anymore.
00:51 I guarantee you $10 million.
00:55 [bell dings]
00:56 Now, it's the fight of the century.
00:58 This man knocked out James Roper.
01:01 Number 17, man.
01:02 I kill Hallyduty now.
01:03 And everyone's asking the same question.
01:06 Is it hope?
01:07 Two bucks on the clean-cut white boy.
01:09 Or is it hype?
01:11 You got to stop eating this stuff.
01:12 You'll be in some kind of shape.
01:14 Oh, I'm in shape.
01:15 [bell dings]
01:17 I'm round.
01:18 Ladies and gentlemen, Samuel L. Jackson.
01:22 I got a lot of pictures.
01:23 Those pictures will ruin you.
01:25 Ruin me?
01:27 My reputation?
01:28 [laughs]
01:31 Jamie Foxx.
01:32 My father had told me that when the green grass starts growing,
01:36 you know, on the other side, then somebody got to cut them off.
01:39 Jeff Goldblum.
01:40 My father said, laugh, and the whole world laughs with you.
01:43 Cry, and I'll give you something to cry about, you little bastard.
01:46 Peter Byrd.
01:47 I'm going to donate all of my monies
01:49 to eradicating the homelessness situations in America
01:52 and as well as the United States forever.
01:55 Cheech Marin.
01:57 Looks like two moons over Miami.
01:59 John Lovitz.
02:00 Shut up.
02:01 All right.
02:02 And Damon Wayans.
02:04 The heavyweight champion of the world.
02:07 [cheers]
02:08 Y'all can kiss my big, black, bloated, Rolls Royce driver.
02:11 [bell dings]
02:12 Damn.
02:13 Damn.
02:14 [music]
02:15 You're doing great, Dwight.
02:17 Hey.
02:18 I'm the number one contender, and I'm tired of you fucking me.
02:21 We got guns on you, and what you got, huh?
02:23 You got a whole bunch of guns with lasers.
02:27 Woo.
02:28 But I mean, you know, does violence really solve anything?
02:31 Directed by Reginald Hudler.
02:33 That's an old huddle.
02:35 (whooshing)