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Other News: Bret Hart interview part 4 - Review of "The Wrestler" movie; evaluation of Harry Smith and Teddy Hart Jan 14, 2009 - 1:50:25 PM
As a future film student and author of a best-selling book, former WWE champion Bret Hart is looking forward to watching "The Wrestler" movie to see how the story of certain aspects of the wrestling business unfolds.
Although Hart believes the producers and director Darren Aronofsky "got the lifestyle down" from what he's heard, he's not sure if they accurately captured the highs of being a pro wrestler to complement the lows.
"I never found myself as a broken down, down-and-out, miserable wreck of a human being," Hart said on the Ringside Live radio show. "I escaped a pretty lousy ending.
Hart says he wrestled in huge arenas and lived a pretty good career in wrestling as an international star, and he went through trials with his stroke, but he's still able to function and live a normal life beyond the wrestling career that took up the first-half of his life.
Although he's removed himself from the wrestling business depicted in the movie, Hart says he still has a vested interest in watching Harry (D.H.) Smith and Teddy Hart's wrestling careers. Hart is confident Teddy's experiences in Mexico will help him mature and be humbled enough to listen to what people in WWE are telling him should he receive another opportunity.
As for Harry Smith, who is rumored to be returning to national WWE TV soon, Hart says he needs to show some personality and find a confidence boost within himself.
"Looking at him to come out of his shell a little bit and show some personality," Hart said about his nephew, the son of Davey Boy Smith. "Character will come out of him over time. Big, nice kid who is shy."
Hart says the way in which WWE randomly debuted him on TV without a back-story or sense of importance to his star presence made Smith question his own abilities. Failing a drug test certainly didn't help Smith, but he believes Smith's ability will eventually take over.
"WWE took away from their own product when he was brought in and (they) didn't give him character development," Hart said. "WWE is guilty of breaking his confidence."
Well if being with legacy doesnt get him confidence nothing will.In my
opinion bret was a great storyteller in the ring but davey boy and owen
were much better wrestlers.
1-Stu-3 Kidd
14 Jan 2009, 11:07
He may be O.K. financially, but based on the last 10 years of interveiws
that I've read, he comes accross as a bitter, broken down, miserable human
being. Although he probably has good reason to be so.
scatha
14 Jan 2009, 20:27
You said it right, 1-Stu-3 Kidd. Bret may have came out alright with his
money, but as far as his head being straight, as well as his soul...well,
he stills drags it around like Marley and his chains from "A Christmas
Carol".
Billy Bob Tweed
15 Jan 2009, 05:15
The man has lived the highs and lows of the business, has had a
life-altering stroke, survived it all and now appears comfortable in his
own skin.
That he offers his own honest independent opinion, whether it sounds bitter
to the worriers out there, shouldn't be condemned, it should be
acknowledged as the views of a true original, whether you like him or not.
Bret Hart has walked the walk, and surely earned his right to say what he
thinks and believes when a reporter asks him a question.
CurtainJerker
15 Jan 2009, 05:22
Nah, don't think so. There's no doubt he was angry and bitter for a long
time, and that he'll probably always have nothing but contempt for HHH and
Shawn Michaels. And it's true that, like a lot of main-event wrestlers, he
appears to have an awfully high opinion of himself and his abilities. But
it does seem like he's finally let go - it's just that he's had to turn his
back on the whole business to do it.
But I have to say - with Montreal, the stroke, and the deaths of Owen, his
mother and father, plus the in-fighting and backstabbing in the extended
Hart family, not to mention the crap he brought on himself with his own
wife and kids, you couldn't blame him for being a bit downbeat, could you?
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As a future film student and author of a best-selling book, former WWE champion Bret Hart is looking forward to watching "The Wrestler" movie to see how the story of certain aspects of the wrestling business unfolds.
