Is there any tv show or movie where the characters display at least halfway decent running form?
Is there any tv show or movie where the characters display at least halfway decent running form?
No!
Are you sure you watched all the movies and TV shows?
I expect there are some actors who used to run and therefore happen to have good form.
the two WORST ive ever seen were:
1. Angelina Jolie in S.A.L.T.
2. Jennifer Lawrence in the first Hunger Games, with that stride she should have died in the first 30 seconds.
Running Brave
The Jericho Mile
adumbobserver wrote:
Is there any tv show or movie where the characters display at least halfway decent running form?
This has plagued me for years. I get the impression that no actor has ever actually run. So they all run like they think you are supposed to look not how people actually run.
I also wonder if directors who have never run or seen anyone run tell the actors to "over-run" like over-acting to make it look better on film.
I am trying to remember the running scenes in Marathon Man, but I cannot recall them clearly enough. (It showed Bikila in Rome intermittently).
There is, and will forever be, only one answer to this:
Jericho mile for sure. That actor actually was running regularly for the movie. He got up to 60 second 400m speed to make the races more realistic.
When Arnold Ran Shirtless in Public wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7KqVF2jtU
So much heelstriking!
Franka Potente looked pretty badass in Run Lola Run.
Tom Cruise shows good running form when he is chasing or being chased in all his movies.
I think he looks better running before he gets chased while riding a motorcycle, than afterward running.
When Arnold Ran Shirtless in Public wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7KqVF2jtU
Did this start the barefoot movement?
Luv2Run wrote:
adumbobserver wrote:
Is there any tv show or movie where the characters display at least halfway decent running form?
This has plagued me for years. I get the impression that no actor has ever actually run. So they all run like they think you are supposed to look not how people actually run.
I also wonder if directors who have never run or seen anyone run tell the actors to "over-run" like over-acting to make it look better on film.
I am trying to remember the running scenes in Marathon Man, but I cannot recall them clearly enough. (It showed Bikila in Rome intermittently).
You're spot-on. Your average non-runner is completely incapable of discerning what good running form looks like.
In college, when I could do 5ks in the mid-14s, I got a part in an indie film. In one scene my character had to run several city blocks to reach the apartment of a dying friend. I only had to run about 100 meters in each take, and I went full-tilt for each one. After a few takes the director told me that because I was "so smooth" I actually looked like I was going slow (according to him), and he asked me to "flail around a bit" and "look distressed" so that I would "give the illusion of going faster
As for Marathon Man, Dustin Hoffman's running in that was quite good, and convincing, for the character he portrayed: A PhD student who ran for fitness. You can see him here running around the Central Park reservoir, albeit dubbed into Spanish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Zs4u8_imESome of the most cringeworthy on-screen running I've ever seen was in The Games, which had Michael Crawford, Charles Aznavour, and a 40-pounds-too-heavy Ryan O'Neal as Olympic marathon aspirants.
Running, with Michael Douglas as another Olympic marathon aspirant, is equally atrocious. It shows him "training" by running to work in a suit, tie, and Nike Oregon Waffles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Zs4u8_imE
I swear know the puddle at the start of the clip