Revealing mistake: When Ali is in the rain on the pay phone at the motel it is a modern phone, not from the era they were trying to portray.
Ali (2001)
1 revealing mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Michael Mann
Starring: Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jeffrey Wright, Bruce McGill, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver
Factual error: The poem Ali quotes in the movie before the Frazier fight, "Ali comes out to meet Frazier, Frazier starts to retreat, If he goes back any further, He'll end up in a ringside seat..." was in fact the poem he used before the first Liston fight and began, "Clay comes out to meet Liston, Liston starts to retreat..." and ends with the lines, "Never did they think, When they laid down their money, That they would witness, The total eclipse of the Sonny". Poor effort.
Drew 'Bundini' Brown: Free ain't easy. Free is real. And real's a motherfucker.
Trivia: Giancarlo Esposito plays Cassius Clay's father. In real life, Esposito is only ten years older than Will Smith.
Question: What's the name of the song playing at the end, when Ali defeats Foreman, and also when Ali is running through Zaire?
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Answer: The song at the end is called Tomorrow by sauf keita. Its on the soundtrack and is the same one when Ali is running through zaire.
Gavin Jackson