We have seen too many inspirational sports competition movies, just from the Olympic games, behind each gold medal there will be a touching and inspiring story, inspirational sports competition movies are a very common genre in the film industry, it is full of hope, make people's blood boil, their stories are also accompanied by failure and success, accompanied by hard work and faith, accompanied by tears and sweat.
Although from the plot point of view, inspirational sports competition movies are difficult to make too much breakthrough in the innovation of the story, it is nothing more than an ordinary person who is not exceptionally talented, how to build confidence in the cold eyes and ridicule of others, how to repeatedly encounter the blows of reality and refuse to give up, and finally how to create miracles and brilliance under the eyes of everyone. "Refusing to bow to fate" is the purpose that all sports competition inspirational films have always conveyed.
Film "Eddie the Eagle"
The 2016 film "Eddie the Eagle" did not produce an overly subversive plot setting from the story mode, and like most inspirational movies, it has a "crazy" spirit of the male protagonist, but also has a fallen former genius player as his assistant coach.
In such a story, does the audience need the result of a mortal cocoon into a butterfly? In fact, it is not necessarily, if "Flying Eagle Eddie" is not a film based on real events, the main creators may let him achieve more success, achieve greater achievements, at least not on the card surface will not look too shabby.
But real events are sometimes the first force to make a good movie, and if the "Eddie the Eagle" in the movie has achieved more gratifying achievements than the male protagonist Michael Edwards in the real event through his own efforts, then it just shows that the creators themselves deny the values that Edwards in the real event should give the audience.
Michael Edwards, known as "Eddie the Eagle," is an Englishman whose people are not so interested in the sport that even a competitor is hard to find. But Edwards is a different kind of person, as depicted in the film, he has a spirit of never accepting defeat, an extraordinary courage to surpass his own abilities, and an almost crazy attachment to ski jumping, all of which are necessary factors for success.
But "Eddie" is not a good seedling engaged in this sport, he is a complete amateur layman, his physical condition is also relatively poor, we can see from the film, the director of the film deliberately let Talon Edgerton, who plays Eddie, fatten up before shooting, making him look stupid like a penguin.
And Eddie's vision also does not give him much advantage in this sport, he has a pair of highly farsighted eyes, and he must wear goggles on his glasses when skiing, otherwise he can't even see the road. When falling at high altitude, the glasses and air produce some chemical reaction, causing the lenses to be filled with fog, which also makes him almost blind when he falls.
Although he is only 172cm tall, he has a weight of 82 kilograms, which makes him 10 kilograms heavier than others among the competitors in the same period. As an athlete engaged in ski jumping, athletes with light weight and good lines are more suitable for this sport, which will allow them to have a better diversion effect when "flying", reduce the drag coefficient, and thus be able to travel farther like an arrow. And the flight effect of "Eddie", we can only use heavy artillery to describe.
Due to the limited family support for him in the sport, he was pieced together from training to official competitions, and a pair of equipment that did not fit made him look a little funny.
Ignorant of ski jumping, he needs a coach to guide him, people in the movie are selfless to help him, but in reality it is difficult to have such a good, in order to pool money to hire coaches and buy training equipment, he did not hesitate to work as a nanny, gardener, hotel waiter and so on.
Frankly, Eddie's level is really not very good, in the 1987 World Championships, he was only ranked 55, the second to last, and the penultimate result did not get the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games. This makes him one of the worst-ranking Athletes to compete in the Olympics.
In the previous competition, his ability only allowed him to stand on the 70-meter platform, he had never tried the terrifying 90-meter platform, and this time facing the 90-meter platform, the result can be imagined, and the penultimate number one is none other than him.
But Eddie, who has jumped 74 meters, is very happy, because this is his personal best result, but also the best of the British, he wore those clumsy ski suits in front of the audience to dance, amusing the audience laughing, this scene has also become the focus of the media attention, people are not interested in his results, everyone just treated him as a jumping beam clown.
All the ridicule stemmed from the fact that his 74-meter performance was nearly double the difference between today's ski jumping world record of about 140 meters. But this does not prevent many people from becoming Eddie's "black fans", becoming the darlings of the media, and becoming the jokes in the eyes of the players.
At the time he was dubbed "Eddie the Eagle", but people who know the sport are well aware. Many people's intentions are obvious, just entertainment with some irony.
Of course, there is no shortage of real affirmations about Eddie, people think that Eddie's "idiot" spirit is an encouragement to people, as an amateur player with poor conditions, he dared to stand on the 90-meter jumping platform, which is already a very great achievement, people should not laugh at a person who works hard, he deserves respect, which actually represents the Olympic spirit.
The record-breaking "Finn Flyer" said to Eddie: "If I do my best, I will feel very happy even if I am famous.".
To a large extent, the fate of a person's life may be decided at the moment of birth, we have no right to choose our own origin, choose our own talents, choose our own genes, and choose our own destiny, but the only thing we can choose is whether to bow to fate or resist, although in many cases that can not change something, but the process of hard work and struggle is only your own wealth, and no one else can take it away. When you have nothing, there is at least one thing you can have, and that is faith and courage.
Some people describe faith this way: people are born unequal, but to pursue equality, and if you can't pursue it, you must also pursue it. Not doing white and not doing it is not called faith, and doing it in vain is called faith.
The down-and-out coach played by Hugh Jackman in the film was a talented and talented player when he was young, but he was willing to degenerate, endlessly indulging himself, and eventually he betrayed his fate, failed his talent, and he was defeated by himself. And when Eddie bravely stood on the 90-meter platform, he defeated himself and helped his coach complete the redemption.
At the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, Frank King, chairman of the organizing committee, said: "In this Olympic Games, some athletes won gold medals, some athletes broke records, and some athletes flew like eagles."
As the famous quote of the founder of the modern Olympic movement is quoted at the end of the film: "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not victory and gold medals, but participation, and what is important is not triumph, but hard work."
The greatest value of Eddie eagles is not whether he can inspire others to succeed, but that it gives you another way to look at failure. In a person's life, success can not favor everyone, although you pay more effort than others, you may not be able to harvest better results, but the results created after hard work and struggle are worth affirming, you can give yourself a reasonable explanation. This is the embodiment of the true Olympic spirit.
"Flying Eagle Eddie" is precisely to use a kind of when you can't do higher, faster, stronger than others, how you look at your own efforts and rewards, how to enjoy the game process, which is probably the biggest inspiration that this movie brings to us.