a wealthy person with a personality defect

Edyth 2022-04-19 09:01:48

The calm picture, the quiet narrative, and the eloquent story turned out to be such a cruel story. Not just about the Schultz brothers, but also about John DuPont himself. Here first talk about John DuPont.

Luxury like a royal mansion, countless trophies and honors, children who grew up in the pile of money, probably have been nurtured by the desire for domination and vanity since childhood. He always looks at people with his eyelids down and his nostrils at the top. There is only a huge hole behind his arrogant eyes. You can't see love, nor his so-called enthusiasm and patriotism. However, money itself is never scary. What is scary is the distance between people. DuPont and his mother are like this. In a world full of money, everyone is busy filling their own desires. Black hole, some of the world's top horses are far more important to his mother than his son, when DuPont put the trophy he won (also bought) on his mother's lap, she said "You didn't give me a gift. Rose." I thought it was because of my old age that I would ignore myself, until Dupont, who was sucking high, said sadly and blankly: "When I was 16 I found out that my mother had been paying him to be my friend." She doesn't care about everything about him, and the more she does, the more Dupont wants to use money and power to prove his ability, an expensive self-gratification, this child grows up until middle age, all in Live for the mother's escape from the shadows. Unable to get recognition from his mother, he wanted to buy the world to recognize himself. He calls himself The Golden Eagle of America, uses the media to promote the wealth of his family, shows off Mark as a one-of-a-kind toy, and paralyzes himself with drugs. This golden man, no matter how you look at it, makes people feel pitiful and pathetic.

Mark is a simple person. His strong muscles can't hide his fragility. His living environment is in sharp contrast with DuPont's. He is a small person at the bottom of the society. He has a brother who loves him very much and a dream of becoming an Olympic champion. . Dave is a person with a strong sense of family responsibility and an honest person. Mark relies on Dave like his father. Although he respects Dave, he still regards Dave as an opponent or even an obstacle. He knows that he cannot be as great as his brother, but his young self-esteem still makes him feel unwilling. This is probably the reason why DuPont can have such a deep influence on Mark. With DuPont's support and respect, he became more confident and considered himself as powerful as his brother. He regarded DuPont's influence as his own. Influence, he regarded this backer as an improvement of his own status, so he was angry at the Dave family's disregard for DuPont. And he didn't know that he was just a toy for the millionaire. It hurts to see Mark get addicted to drugs and start drinking. He fell because of DuPont, but DuPont was afraid that his coach's image would be damaged and immediately called Dave, which made Mark's self-esteem take an unprecedented blow, but after his failure Dave was still standing by his side. Mark grows up and sobers, from the messy-haired depraved kid in the motorcycle suit with the beer in his hand, back to the clean and simple wrestler who knows he can't stay with Dupont anymore. And just before that, DuPont's mother died. He banished the expensive horses, and his air of relief seemed to be reborn out of darkness. Yet his rebirth was the beginning of hell for the Schultz brothers.

I never dreamed that he would kill Dave because Dave couldn't honestly say to the camera that he was his mentor. He is like a tyrannical emperor who will take his life if he is not respected. In his eyes, not being recognized is the most unforgivable thing, and his bright appearance can no longer cover up his moral and spiritual corruption. The eagle represents the United States, a symbol of strength and power. DuPont represents not only anyone who loses morality for money and power, but a deep irony of the United States, suggesting how many lies are hidden behind the United States in front of the camera, Crazy, and cruel, his three bullets also broke the wonderful American Dream. Mark left without his brother and his desire for that simple dream. The former gold medalist has become the most gimmicky headliner in the boxing club, and the audience's applause for him is joking rather than respectful. The sound of "USA, USA" is the imagination of the power of the United States found in boxing entertainment, and it also becomes the Cocaine that Mark paralyzed himself and escaped from the status quo.

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Foxcatcher quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mark Schultz: [Mark gives a speech to a school of young students] Hello. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to you today. My name is Mark Schultz. I wanna talk about America, and I wanna tell you why I wrestle.

    [Mark holds up his Olympic gold metal to the kids]

    Mark Schultz: This is an Olympic gold metal. I won this three years ago at the 23rd Olympic games in Los Angeles, California. This is more than just some piece of metal. It's about what the metal represents. The virtues it requires to attain it.

  • [Mark's first meeting with John du Pont]

    John du Pont: You look good. You look strong. Fit.

    Mark Schultz: Thank you, sir.

    John du Pont: Feeling confident?

    [Mark nods yes]

    John du Pont: That's one of the most important elements of entering a match is feeling the confidence, knowing that you're going to win. Feeling it inside. If you get - go to a match knowing you're going to win that match, odds are you're going to win that match. You're training with your brother Dave?

    Mark Schultz: Yes, sir.

    John du Pont: Great Dave Schultz?

    Mark Schultz: Yeah.

    John du Pont: And I'm talking to the great Mark Schultz. Do you have any idea why I asked you to come here?

    Mark Schultz: No.

    John du Pont: No. Well, Mark, do you - do you have any idea who I am?

    Mark Schultz: No. No.

    John du Pont: Some rich guy calls you on the phone. I want the great Mark Schultz to come visit me. Well, I'm a - I'm a wrestling coach. And I have a deep love of the sport of wrestling. And I wanted to speak with you about your future. About what you hope to achieve. What do you hope to achieve, Mark?

    Mark Schultz: Well, I wanna be the best in the world. I wanna go to the Worlds and win gold. I wanna go to the '88 Olympics and win gold.

    John du Pont: Good. I'm proud of you. Are you getting the support that you need?

    Mark Schultz: What do you mean, sir?

    John du Pont: Well, you know how the soviets support their wrestlers.

    Mark Schultz: I do.

    John du Pont: Mark, we as a nation have failed to honor you. And that's a problem. Not just for you, but for our society. When we fail to honor that which should be honored, it's a problem. It's a canary in a coal mine. Do you bird-watch?

    Mark Schultz: Uh, no.

    John du Pont: You can learn a lot from birds. I'm an ornithologist. But more importantly, I am a patriot. And I want to see this country soar again.

    Mark Schultz: I want that too.

    John du Pont: I can see that.