Because the Olympic Games, which have been delayed for a year by the epidemic, have finally arrived, after five years, The Olympic athletes from all over the world have once again stood on their own tracks and sprinted for the gold medal, and this spirit of constantly surpassing themselves has always been worth learning. Let's take a look at five movies on the Olympic theme.
Tokyo Olympics
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >, Eternal Fire (directed by Gu Yun in 2009</h1>).
Eternal Fire is an official Olympic film, it is a film recorded by the film production agency set by the International Olympic Committee, and its mission is to record each Olympic Games comprehensively and accurately, presenting the most exciting sports events and the touching stories behind them. The first official Olympic film was the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, after which the convention was continued.
The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, were hailed as the best of all. As the official film of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, "Eternal Fire" is directed by Gu Yun (Gu Yun, 54, a native of Shanghai, directed by the Central News Documentary Film Studio, she is the second female director in the history of the 100-year Olympic Games, and the first in Asia. ), won the Special Prize at the 33rd Montreal International Film Festival and the Olympic Spirit Award at the 27th Milan International Sports Film and Television Festival. It mainly filmed the living conditions of global athletes and the preparation for the Beijing Olympic Games, breaking through the previous record of the official Olympic films for the event itself, and enriching the film content from the two arenas of the event and the behind-the-scenes guarantee.
Recorded all the memorable stories about the Olympic Games for latecomers, such as what happened to Liu Xiang's retirement? How will Iran's first Olympic taekwondo female athlete, Sarah, wrap herself in a thick black turban? How did a poor Polish teenager in Germany, who had been abandoned by his mother, get out of the shadow of his childhood in kayaking, eliminate the confusion of identity, and be accepted by mainstream society? ..."Eternal Fire" has characters with stories and feelings and eternal glory, which is worthy of the permanent collection of the Chinese people.
Eternal Fire poster
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > ii. Olympia (directed by Lenny Revenstahl in 1938</h1>).
The first official Olympic film, filmed in Germany under Hitler. In 1936, the Nazi forces gradually rose, and the nazi forces standing on the Olympic stands could be seen everywhere in the official Olympic films, although the political significance of the film was repeatedly criticized by Western intellectuals, but its vibrant beauty in showing the sports scene was unprecedented.
Composed of two parts, "National Festival" and "Festival of Beauty", the film is the first film to record the Summer Olympic Games. The manpower and material resources used in this film were rare at that time, and the amazing effects of photography, editing and dubbing presented also laid the basic scale of many sports competition shooting methods, which can be called a classic in film history, fully showing that the director wants to shoot a documentary with both historical and cinematic aesthetics, expressing the Olympics as the embodiment of ancient culture, expressing athletes as artists - practitioners of sports art, and showing the beauty of sports, the stimulation of competition and the peak of idealism through the lens.
Poster of Olympia
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" >3, Chariot of Fire (directed by Hugh Hurdson in 1981</h1>).
Chariot of Fire is a drama film directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Klaus, Ian Charleeson, and Ian Holm. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 15 May 1981. The film is based on the true story of two young sprinters from the 1920s, who were not from mainstream but eventually represented Britain at the Olympics and won gold medals.
The film is also based on a true story, telling the story of two young British people who eventually won the 100 meters and 400 meters of the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Harold Abraham was a Jew. In Britain in the 1920s, sensitive to the discrimination and injustice against the Jews around him, he was determined to conquer one prejudiced indifferent mind after another with his windy feet. He runs because he feels in his heart that God has given him good running legs, and he races because he wants to win glory for God. Harold Abraham formed a certain stark contrast with Eric, but in the end they both won the game. The film presents us with the pure and powerful power of faith and faith, the director does not favor one over the other, whether it is faith or belief, secular or divinity is worthy of respect. It is worth mentioning that Eric has a very deep relationship with China. His father was a missionary to China, born in China, and after winning the Olympic gold medal, he resolutely returned to China as a missionary. After Pearl Harbor, he was imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp in Weifang, Shandong Province, where he was tortured to death. His loyalty to his faith, his love of life, his deep affection for Chinese people will be remembered.
Chariot of Fire poster
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" >4, One-Man Olympics (directed by Hou Yong in 2008).</h1>
The movie "One Man's Olympics" tells the story of Liu Changchun, the first person in the Chinese Olympic Games, to participate in the Olympic Games in the United States.
On the eve of the "918" incident, Liu Changchun (Li Zhaolin) was a student at Northeastern University, practicing sprinting under the guidance of a German coach, and after the incident, he returned to his hometown of Dalian. Liu Changchun witnessed the current situation of the motherland with broken mountains and rivers, and he never gave up training, determined to one day win glory for the country, and his approach was supported by his wife Jiang Xiuzhen (Ma Jing). Puppet Manchuria under the control of the Japanese Kou wanted him to represent "Manchukuo" in the Olympic Games, and Liu Changchun, who had sworn to die as a traitor, escaped from pursuit and fled to Beiping, where he wanted to represent China in the Olympic Games. However, the Nationalist government refused his request on the grounds of "insufficient funds", and in desperation, he asked for help from Zhang Xueliang (Hu Jun), the former president of Northeastern University, who funded him with 8,000 oceans to encourage Liu Changchun, who had the dream of becoming a strong country, to go to the United States to participate in the 10th Summer Olympic Games. At the entrance ceremony, Liu Changchun, who represented 40,000 compatriots on the expedition, came...
Poster of One Man's Olympics
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > Miracle on Ice (directed by Gavin O'Connor, 2004</h1>).
The film is based on a true story from the 1980 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
In 1979, the United States, which was caught in the Vietnam War and the Cold War, was not reborn in the era of great scientific and technological development, but instead slid into the dilemma of a crisis of confidence, and the "American spirit" was shaken. Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell) is the meritorious coach who led the University of Minnesota ice hockey team to three consecutive championships, and six months before the start of the Winter Olympics, Herb was commissioned to form and train the new American ice hockey team. At that time, the Soviet ice hockey team occupied an absolute dominance in the international arena, winning consecutive Olympic gold medals since the sixties. From the beginning of Herb's formation, he regarded the Soviet Union as the ultimate opponent. Herb recruited outstanding hockey players from various universities to form a 26-man primary team, and in harsh training, these non-professional players formed a truly effective group. Three days before the opening of the Olympic Games, the U.S. and Soviet ice hockey teams played a warm-up match, and although the U.S. team lost, Herb and his players knew that the real contest was in the Olympic Games...
Ice Miracle poster
Conclusion: The Tokyo Olympics are in full swing, athletes are working the field, constantly surpassing themselves in order to be the first, here, all people should understand each other, friendship for a long time, unity and fair competition, this spirit is worth learning from each of us!