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1905 Movie Network Special Article Remember the moment when the British little fresh meat winked at you in last year's "Ace Agent"? Let many aunts and girls shout "Ah this is my family's husband!" ”
This year, he, Tarren Eggerton, came back, but turned into something like this:
And his coaching mentor and Soul Mate, also changed from elegant tailor agent Colin Feith to muscular "Uncle Wolf" Hugh Jackman,
Speaking of which, can you guess which movie we're talking about? Why don't you think your handsome husband can't turn himself into this?
【Ski jumping, take you "climax" to take you flying】
Bingo！ It is this bloody sports movie "Eddie the Eagle", which is known as the British version of "Forrest Gump", which will soon be released in China on March 18. Its story is related to a real, life-threatening event that is not worth the winter Olympics:
Ski jumping. The English name is more straightforward, it is called Ski Jumping.
Excuse me？ Can jumping and skiing be linked?
Yes, ski jumping is simply called "snow jumping", athletes wear special skis, slide down the inclined slope of the jumping platform, and then with the help of speed and bounce power, jump into the air, fly in the air for about 4-5 seconds, and then land on the hillside.
Footage of flying off the jumping platform
Than what? In short, it's better than who has a good posture and who jumps far.
The film was filmed in 1988, when it was divided into two heights, one 70 meters, one 90 meters (about 20-30 floors high), and now the Winter Olympics now have 90 meters (formerly 70 meters), 120 meters (formerly 90 meters) and team 3 men's events.
(The basin friends who have skied through the snow think about their own situation on the middle and advanced roads, and then make up the following two pictures, first roughly feel it)
It's a great time to play well
Jumping ci is maybe even lost
The project originated in Norway in 1879, with the first official platform jumping competition held in Oslo. Legend has it that this evolved from the punishment of the ancient Norwegian rulers for executing prisoners - pushing the prisoners tied to a snowboard from a mountain, and then watching him slide over the cliff and fall into another world...
And the modern snow jumping that evolved from this cruel punishment shows how dangerous it is. From the first Winter Olympics in 1924 as a competition event, to the first World Ski Jumping Championships held in Yugoslavia in 1972, the project has been developed as a global competition for nearly 100 years.
The actual piste and basic form of ski jumping
In the movie, it can also be seen that the possibility of breaking various parts of the body during practice and competition, and high paraplegia is extremely high, and such a lifeless sports project, Eddie's dirty coach "Uncle Wolf" actually used how to reach the "climax" to teach him the technical points of the whole set of movements:
"Skidding is like foreplay to do a good job of speed mating, then find the right position to accurately take off, well control the body posture and then fly boldly in the air, and finally land smoothly after shouting out loud."
Uncle Wolf should also pay attention to the "cool" expression when training
Well, imagine your goddess, and then, like this:
Falling into the hospital is also normal
[Taren Egerton learned to ski for the film and how much did he fall into]
"Eddie the Eagle" is about an athlete named Eddie, who has insisted on becoming an Olympian since he was a child, and he will cling to the opportunity no matter how ridiculous and unlikely it may seem – this stupid boy with high farsightedness finally represented Britain in the ski jump at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, and jumped from 70 meters to 90 meters of the first challenge! Although the grade ranking is the first from the bottom, he danced happily on the spot, and the funny dance style with his wings made him named "Flying Eagle Eddie", but it became a favorite of the media and fans.
The picture on the left is the real Eddie, and the picture on the right is our handsome pot Tarun
"The film is based on a true story", you want to ask, huh? Is this all true?
Wearing oversized glasses frames and worrying about whether the snow glasses will poke their glasses in the eye every time, this silly and slightly fat British boy is based on this:
The look, the smile, the shoehorn face, are all exactly the same
In order to keep up with Eddie Edward's appearance, Tarren Egerton deliberately gained weight, and his smile was carved out of a mold with him.
For this film, he had to learn to sell it now, really ran to Germany to participate in training, learned to ski, and got new skills!
Although he did not really "jump in the snow", he really climbed the 70 meters and 90 meters high platform, and the action of sliding on the slope was also done by himself. Every time he jumped in the snow, he had to slide down the slope for at least 10 meters, until the whole person rushed out of the picture, and then a stuntman fished him with a net - so the various wrestling inside was also no shei.
In the film, the two are talking about the technical essentials of the slide
Taren Egerton once said in an interview that the biggest impression that the film prototype brought to him was that what mattered was not the first place, but his kind of perseverance in trying and completely throwing himself into it in order to get something that was important to him, that is, a single-celled animal that was particularly persistent, but if you wanted to stand behind him, you would especially hope that he would succeed.
Eddie was completely on fire after the Winter Olympics
Who is Eddie the Eagle? What does the true story look like? 】
And this forrest Gump-like film prototype, Eddie Edward, really became a legend in the history of global sports at the 1988 Winter Olympics. What is the true story of Eddie the Eagle?
Eddie has dreamed of going to the Olympic Games since he was a child, but because he had the same disease in his legs as Forrest Gump when he was a child, everyone told him countless times: You are not the material of being an athlete. He worked hard for a long time and finally became an amateur alpine skier, but in 1984 he did not make it to that year's Olympic Games, and worse, he was running out of money. So in 1986, he decided to find a "cheaper" project to do, and found that no one in the United Kingdom had ever participated in the Winter Olympic ski jumping project before, so in the United States, Lake Placid, Eddie began training in a new project. In the film, "Uncle Wolf" plays his coach Chuck Bergon, who is also real, but unlike the film, Eddie's coach also has a John Viscome.
In order to raise money, he drove his mother's car to and from European countries to participate in competitions, worked as a nanny, gardener, hotel miscellaneous, etc., in 1986 he skated 68 meters in the European Championship to jump out of the British record, and represented England at the World Championships in 1987... When he knew he could go to the 1988 Winter Olympics, he worked as a painter in a mental hospital in Finland, where he could live for just £1 a night.
In any case, the 173-centimeter-tall, 82-kilogram (more than 9 kilograms heavier than the second- weight) chubby world-class mixed-up, with the instructor's second-hand equipment: an oversized helmet with a rope, ski boots that require 6 pairs of socks to fill, and of course, the dumb pair of glasses - in mid-air the glasses are all fog, and it is half-blind to jump down.
The real Eddie who was besieged by the media in 1988
Everyone knows what happened at that Olympics, he jumped from the 70m class to the 90m class he had never tried before, and finally set a British record with a personal best of 73.5 meters, surpassing life and death, and no injury. Although he was ultimately at the bottom of the 55th place (disqualified from the 56th place) in the entire 56th place, the desperation and excitement made everyone remember him: Eddie the Eagle. The audience was thrilled by his antics and madness, which even overshadowed the British player Wilf O'Reilly, who won the short track speed skating championship at the time, and then participated in the tonight show hosted by Johnny Carson with movie star Bert Reynolds, and was named "Mr. Off the Line".
And with that comes money! Sponsored by double lions Fradiva vodka, Olympus cameras, Hamlet Chocolate, Cadbury and other companies to set up a fund for Eddie; and his value has skyrocketed, on TV, endorsement cars, appearance fees have been as high as 10,000 pounds per hour, up to 65,000 pounds a day, 1988 alone about 500,000-600,000 pounds.
Eddie has been trying to continue competing in the Olympics since 1988
[The Eddie Flying Eagle Rule was built because of him, and he never went to the Olympics again]
The film is played until the end of the 1988 Winter Olympics, so after that, is Eddie still skiing after having sponsorship?
In 1990, Eddie's madness led the Organising Committee to set up a "The Eddie The Eagle Rule" rule that required Olympic athletes to qualify for Olympic tickets in the top 30-50 of the world rankings in international competitions.
This also directly led to Eddie's three unsuccessful efforts in 1992, 1994 and 1998, and finally did not reach the Olympic arena again. But Eddie didn't give up either, and by 1997 he had set personal bests in the 90m and 120m classes in the 85m and 115m respectively. In 2010, he returned to the field of his dreams as an Olympic torchbearer in Canada.
A while ago, the two lead actors and Eddie came to China to promote the film
Forrest Gump has a famous saying:
Life is like a box of chocolates：you never know what you're gonna get。
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next piece will taste like.
Eddie, the flying eagle, also has a box of his own, and he holds it, tries everything, and constantly looks for his own moments.