Kobbs Hessler wrote:
Juno. Michael Cera totally convincing as a track star.
All I see is pork swords
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I don't think "Tracktown' has been mentioned
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“College,” made in 1927 with Buster Keaton. A snooty freshman tries out for sports to impress his favorite girl. He tries every track & field event, including the hammer, where he whirls round and round until the hammer throws him! Failure upon failure ensues. At the end, to save his girl from the villain, he sprints to her dormitory, pole vaults into her window, and fights off the bad guy by throwing household objects at him and demonstrating skills in javelin, shot put and tackle football. Despite the premise, Keaton had to be one of the best natural athletes in all of the movies.
By the way, has there been ANY movie featuring a field event athlete?
The Cary Grant movie “Walk Don’t Run” had our hero participating in (yes) the 50km Olympic race walk. The premise was egregiously stupid, but included the ravishing Samantha Eggar, so all’s good there.
In “The Way We Were,” I believe an early scene has Robert Redford competing in some track or field event in college. Hazy in my mind.50 -
Roger Biebert wrote:
American audiences overemphasize the importance of "realism" in movies.
Stories like St. Ralph and Jericho Mile exist outside our own reality, where the impossible of our reality can be possible within their reality. I don't know why the rules of their reality would piss you off as long as its effective in conveying the themes and emotions of the story.
Just like basic laws of physics of our reality can be ignored when one watches a movie like Avengers or RRR, the basic rules of likely outcomes of a marathon and training can be ignored when watching a movie like St. Ralph or Juno. In the reality of Juno, one obviously doesn't need muscle definition to be a district champion in the 800m. For proper movie watching experience, you should learn to separate the realities and rules of the universe when viewing a fictional movie. It's how the movies are intended to be viewed.
Like in It’s A Wonderful Life. I mean angels don’t come down from Heaven to show you how the world would be if you were never born.
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Anthony Edwards wrote:
In the "field" category, nothing has yet topped Lamar's javelin throw in Revenge of the Nerds for accuracy (whether that's most or least accurate is open to interpretation)
Gonna tell my kids this was Neeraj Chopra
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Zatopek is free in the US right now for Amazon Prime members. I just watched it last night - excellent movie. I really liked the interaction between Zatopek and Ron Clarke. The runners looked like real runners.
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Howd these rate wrote:
what was that comedy, not to long ago. Dude runs London marathon. Obviously not great running scenes. I just remember the main character as an out of shape chump and his antagonist being very close to if not on the front of the starting line at London.
Sounds like "Run Fatboy Run"20 -
Second Wind
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Silliest running movie I've ever seen was "If I Had Wings"
A blind high school student runs with a juvenile delinquent guide and wins the one and only XC race of the season where everyone is from the same team wearing solid color t-shirts over the high school bully.
At the end of the movie the blind runner and the guide run up to a lake. The one looks at the other and asks if he's ever thought about a triathlon. They then proceed to run into the lake, start swimming and the screen fades to black.
I watched it with my younger sister who is also a runner and we got a few laughs out of it, so not a complete waste of time
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Don't know about movies, but there was an episode of Aaron Sorkin's "Sports Night" where he had a bunch of guys running some non-existent race, like 3300m and he gave the guys, because they were African, names like Genzebe and Tirunesh and Meseret.
Seriously retarded.
Amazing to think that not one single person involved with the show knew what was going on, but that's Aaron Sorkin.
And that's Hollywood.
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It's not track, but Breaking Away has similar vibes, but about cycling.
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The Long Green Line- realistic because it is actually real
Fast Women
Prefontaine
Transcend
Spirit of the Marathon
The Barkely Marathons
Patiriots Day
McFarlane
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mebert wrote:
Zatopek is free in the US right now for Amazon Prime members. I just watched it last night - excellent movie. I really liked the interaction between Zatopek and Ron Clarke. The runners looked like real runners.
The Zatopek movie is currently on Tubi and is free.
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3 that I like:
Unbroken (story of Loius Zamperini)Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man
Good documentary movie is Lorena- Light footed Woman
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For a year-jerker I offer Children of Heaven. It travelled so well that a Bollywood remake - Bumm bumm bole was made. I prefer the Farsi original with its perspective on the ugliness of inequality in Iran is excellent.
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Bhaag Milka Bhaag is a Hindustani biography of an actual athlete - Milkha Singh. Unknown at the global level but found success at the Asian and Commonwealth Games.
*There’s a puzzle; from Afghanistan to Bangladesh live maybe 20% of all humans but very little success in track and field.
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