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THE SET-UP is probably the least known, and maybe the best, of the trio of boxing movies to near in the slow 1940s. The other two, of course, are BODY AND SOUL and THE CHAMPION.
Unlike those dazzling movies THE SET-UP’S protagonist, boxer Robert Ryan, isn’t a young pug riding his fists of stones to fame and fortune. He’s a thirty-five year veteran fighter caught somewhere in the last round of an undistinguished career, a nobody on the bottom of a fight card in Paradise City. About all he’s got left to dream about is squeezing enough out of whatever remains of his career to purchase a cigar stand. His loving wife, Audrey Trotter, has had her possess of seeing him beat up. One more gather, Ryan tells her, and I’ll be in line for a rematch and a payoff enormous enough to afford….
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Like the other boxing movies, Ryan’s fate is in the hands of the mountainous men with paunchy cigars, the ones who position up a secure for an up and coming boxer by setting up a convincing dive by his over-the-hill opponent. Money changes hands. Everyone’s in on it except for the guy who’s supposed to buy the plunge, the guy who’s one punch away from that cigar stand.
Although THE SET-UP is a highly racy movie, it carries a heavy dose of allegorical cynicism. Ryan’s character doesn’t bother to cloak the scrutinize of disgust on his face as he surveys the bloodthirsty crowd upon entering the auditorium. Ryan’s Everyman has no illusion and the humblest of dreams, unaware that the corpulent boys with the enormous cigars have negotiated a foreclosure on it. Ryan, forty at the time this movie was made, was a boxer in college. He’s utterly convincing, in and outside the ring. Although his career would lead him to play more character than lead roles, playing both apt guys and poor, he has more than enough of whatever it takes to carry this movie.
Director Robert Wise delivers a lean, tough, and immediate movie. Ears cauliflower and foreheads bulge with long healed scar tissue. Wise doesn’t extinguish a frame or a gesture. What doesn’t push the area forward services the downcast mood.
The commentary track features Wise and director Martin Scorsese. Wise must have been in his mid-eighties when he recorded the track. His mind is positive and, as an used movie fan, I reflect it a privilege to listen to him comment on one of his masterpieces. Scorsese adds insight into a film he obviously loves as well, although his enthusiasm sometimes runs away a bit and it’s a diminutive difficult to follow some of his learned praise.
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Simply save this is a masterpiece. Presumably the belated praise “The Set-Up” is owed will near its map with this current DVD release. Director Robert Wise has some very pleasant films to his credit but this is tour de force. The camera work and editing are unparalleled. The film’s myriad minor characters are magically revealed by short (but never choppy) camera shots.
“The Set-Up” is the memoir of an aging boxer hoping that one last fight can turn around his career and thus his life. Shady gamblers and harmful fight handlers have other ideas. The setting is the fictional Paradise City, a grimy, cynical fast-paced and totally unsentimental city. Considerable of the action takes state in the boxing arena featuring some of the best fight sequences ever shot. But a scene in a bar is memorable as are shots following the boxer’s gloomy girlfriend.
The movie is shot in true time, only 72 minutes, but what a 72 minutes it is. Never has so remarkable of a fable been told in so short a time.
Adding to the value of this DVD is the accompanying commentary provided by Wise and Martin Scorsese. Scorsese is not only one of the gigantic directors of all time but is also fantastic in the burgeoning field of DVD film commentary. He has forgotten more about film than most of us will ever know. His speaking style is not fair insightful but challenging. Objective listen to him define “The Set-Up”s stylized realism.
But ogle “The Set-Up” first without the commentary, then like and bask in it even more with it.
A large film lover’s film.
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