Muhammad Ali called himself the greatest, and filmmaker Ken Burns, director of the upcoming PBS documentary series about the boxing champion, “global icon and inspiration,” is not one to disagree. …
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Asked whether a filmmaker of color would have been better suited to tell the Ali story, Burns pushed back.“We’ve never said that this was definitive and I think the point is that we want to have many, many points of view,” the director commented. “I’m in a business of history and that includes everyone.
“Muhammad Ali would not fold or bend or beg,” Bentt said. “There’s a certain section of Black people that love Muhammad for that and despised him for that. I think when you achieve something and you’re in the spotlight and then you [face] a challenge, people hate you because they can’t do that or they would fold under the pressure of trying to do that.”“When Ken demonstrated in these four episodes, it’s a masterpiece,” he stated.
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