lose. The Marshall University football team lost the intercollegiate game; they were originally ranked last among all American universities, and in order to win the playoffs, they had to work harder. However, there is no chance. The plane crash killed 75 lives. The coaches and players are not just the hardcore members, almost all the members, and even loyal fans, including a senator, a congressman, and four. Doctors are all local leaders.
If you lose a coach, you can hire new experts; if you lose an important player, you can also retrain; if you lose both at the same time, it's like a river that is cut off by life, no matter how difficult it is; and in a small town, many families have lost their fathers and sons at the same time. , Not bound to a disaster. The spiritual atmosphere of the entire town is also in crisis.
this is a true story. In 1970, West Virginia, the Marshall football team was hit hard; Huntington was lifeless, and the school board was talking about closing the team. However, the remaining three team members encouraged the townspeople to unite and support the reconstruction of the school team.
Good wishes cannot replace reality. Starting from scratch, rebuilding the team, and winning victory, it will take many years. At this moment, neither morale nor resources are enough to maintain balance, even if it is just balance. No one wants to take over this team, the shadow is over the future, and the failure is so obvious. Well-known coaches shunned it for fear.
An even more unknown youth coach from an unknown small college volunteered to accept this task. Jack Lange and his assistant recruited newcomers; and the president of the university, Donald, relentlessly asked the sports association to make an exception to allow freshmen to participate.
Yes, this is an inspirational film, I downloaded Spider-Man III. For a whole month, I haven't had any thoughts to watch, even for the legendary Sand Man. Spider-Man spent 300 million US dollars, beautiful, but looking at Dunster's mature face, there is also Spider-Man's stupid slogan: the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. I feel that I am back in the elementary school class, undergoing more stupid brainwashing.
Fortunately, some movies are real. This film is a true story, there is no adulteration at all. The rebuilt Marshall school team did not win a big victory. If it were a legend, they would win the competition. But the first game was lost, and the second game was at home, narrowly winning by a low score in the last second. In the subsequent games, they lost miserably. Within a year, they only won two games. The score was poor, and the loss was terrible. It was the worst team among all American colleges. In four years, they won a total of nine games, but lost 33 games.
Fourteen years later, in 1984, the Marshall team's perseverance paid off, with five consecutive district championships and two national championships. Since 1987, he has won several championships in the National College League. The film ended with the team's cheering slogan: Marshall must win.
Warner shot this film in 2006, and there are no big stars. The coach is played by Matthew McConaughey. He had played rivalry with Judy Foster in "Time Contact", but he was not a great role. The assistant teacher actor Matthew Fox is extremely handsome. He became famous for the series "Lost", but he did not show brilliant acting skills. Other characters are even more mediocre, with a small cost and a low box office.
What is moving is the story itself. The director who wants to get it turned out to be McG, the director of Charlie I&II. The fancy box-like style of the doll's candy disappears in Marshall. It's really a good film, because the story is so good.
Rugby is very different from basketball and soccer. Players must wear helmets and armor to protect themselves. It is like a small war. For rugby players, it is required to get up again where they fell. You have to get up, and you have to charge, so that you can win. The NFL National Football Super Bowl final is the most popular sporting event in the United States. NBA basketball is indeed very good-looking, while the craze for soccer is popular all over the world, both of which are very good. But it's definitely not as exciting as the NFL. Of all ball games, American football has the most damage to the player's body, and broken bones are common.
It is a kind of hard work, in the body, in the heart.
There is a character in Gulong's novel called Yan Nantian. Yan Nantian has practiced marrying clothes. The secret of marrying clothes magic is that every time you practice it, you will stagnate. You must transfer your skill to others and start over to continue practicing. Of course, the power of magic is nonsense, but the spirit of falling down and coming again is in line with reality and is commendable. In fact, behind every successful person is countless failures. Only by constantly learning lessons and trying is enough to be praised.
The story of the Marshall team is not a miracle, nor is it a legend. It took thirty years for them to truly win the victory, and the coaches and players have also changed batch after batch. The film did not show the subsequent richness, but the interpretation until 1971, even in 1974, the nine victories and thirty-three failures were just subtitled to show.
However, the charm of the story is also here: to get up from a fall, this is the most important thing.
2. The restoration
movie is very vivid and the climax is stacked; the most exciting moment is the Marshall team's 15:13 victory over the University of Cincinnati Seaville, and the story ends here. The subtitles are icing on the brilliant performance of Marshall after 1984. The coach is also in the American Sports Hall of Fame. Everything is fine.
In fact, the team at that time was not successful. As one might expect, Marshall's score was terrible. As a result, the principal was dismissed that year. Coach Lange had 33 losses and 9 wins, and he could not gain a foothold. He had to resign in 1974. The resume states that he went to a private company and returned to sports only six years later. Six years, this is quite a long period of time. In the highly competitive sports world, one year away is enough to become a fossil.
It's not that beautiful, is it.
Lange graduated from the University of Akron in 1959 and stayed there as a teaching assistant. He went to Heidelberg College in 1961-62 as a teaching assistant. Both universities are unknown. In 1963-65, he arrived in New York and worked as a teaching assistant at Cornell University. Cornell is well-known for hotel management. Most of its service staff are courteous, and sports is not a strong point. In 66-70, he came to Westwood Private College as a coach, a smaller and less famous school.
At that time he had three children: David, Peter and Julie. Mrs. Sandra is a full-time housewife. Feeding a family is not easy, and I admire his courage.
In the movie, the principal receives a call saying that someone has recommended himself as a coach, from Westwood. "Where is Westwood?" he asked. "Who cares," the secretary replied.
The choice in 1970 was helpless to the school at the time, and no one was willing to take over this position. For Lange, in the movie, the principal came to Westwood and asked Lange why he wanted to be a coach. Lange couldn't tell why, but he just thought about it. The headmaster turned to leave, the coach stopped him, there was no exciting dialogue, only sympathy.
West Virginia is not a big sports state. The state team at the time was West Virginia University. Marshall was only a third-rate, perhaps a fourth-rate school team, and it was not well advanced. There is no benefit except for being blank and being free to play. However, the pain of the predecessor is also a heavy burden, which makes people unable to breathe. In fact, he was already the third choice. The first two either refused or resigned after working for two days.
Looking at Lange's photos back then, his plain face. I believe his reason.
In an interview, Lange mentioned that he had a five-year contract that year, but four years later, the school did not support the school team financially, so he resigned. Then he transferred to the private sector and disappeared in the sports world.
In 1980, he returned to the University of Louisville as deputy director, and went to the University of Missouri in 1981-84. Interestingly, he worked in the track and field department and stayed away from football. In the next few years, I went back and forth between the University of California and the University of Missouri, as well as the track and field department and the competition department. In 1988, I went to Indianapolis Naval Academy and became the director of physical education. I served for 14 years. Indianapolis is a well-known Naval Academy. I remember that President Carter graduated here. It was in this position that he was inducted into the National College of Fame.
In the movie, Lange went well and succeeded. But the six years that disappeared have never been accounted for.
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