Little people, big dreams

Guillermo 2021-12-16 08:01:06

Little people, big dreams, this is the slogan on the movie poster of "Flying Eagle Eddie". I had never heard of such a person before watching this movie, and knew nothing about such a Winter Olympics project. After watching this movie, I was amused and moved and inspired. This movie perfectly presents the story of a real little person who finally realized the Olympic dream after twists and turns.

At the beginning of the story, Eddie, who has been wearing large myopia glasses and has inflexible legs and feet, tried various sports since he was a child. In the roars of his father, he is still looking for a sport that suits him, just to realize his dream of competing in the Olympics. Later, he joined the alpine skiing team, but was rejected by the British Olympic Committee because the competition was fierce and not good enough. In order to realize his Olympic dream, at the age of 22, he switched to ski jumping because there were no other ski jumpers competing with him in the UK at the time. This was a relatively shortcut.

However, this is also an extremely crazy and extremely difficult road. Lack of funds, he lives in the storeroom of the bar proprietress, relies on part-time work to maintain training expenses, picks up other people's old equipment, and secretly drives away the family van for training. He is not talented enough. Obviously his physical fitness is not what the athlete expects. Eddie is too fat and not suitable for the lightness required by high-altitude skiing. He can't slide farther. If he is highly myopic, he needs to wear a layer of goggles outside the myopia. , The lenses often fog up so that he may be blinded every time he jumps. Exercise is extremely dangerous. If you slide down quickly from a height of tens of meters, you can break your bones or even life-threatening. It is to continue training after each body wound is slightly healed. Suffering from ridicule and blindfolding, professional high-altitude skiers laughed at him. Since childhood, no one has been optimistic about him, including his father. Even after he qualified to participate in the Olympics, he would not be seen by others, but these can't affect his dream-catching heart. After all the hardships, he used his courage and unremitting pursuit to achieve his own brilliance.

The role of Eddie is Tarren Egerton, who once starred in the handsome guy in "Ace Agent". In this movie, he is very different for the play to gain weight, perfectly imitating Eddie’s own demeanor and demeanor. The silly expression is embarrassing, and the stubborn chin is cute. This boy is not tall or handsome enough. He plays Eddie as kindly as the boy next door, ordinary like you and me in life, forced by life. , Pursuing for dreams. Sliding off the 70-meter platform of the Olympic Games, although it was the last one, it filled the gap of the British in this event, so he danced with excitement and shouted happily. Sliding off the 90-meter platform of the Olympic Games, he recalled the mixed feelings he had experienced, and finally flew to the sky like an eagle, realizing his dream!

In the
movie, the coach of another male protagonist Eddie is played by Hugh Jackman in "Wolverine". Hu stubble has sexy eyes and charming long legs, exuding fatal attraction. In a snowy day, the black shirt was rolled to the elbow and a forearm was exposed. The coolness of smoking and drinking on a weekdays was in sharp contrast with Eddie's way of drinking milk to supplement calcium. There is a fascinating clip. The slightly drunk man slides down from a height of 90 meters with a cigarette. The gliding process and the landing scene are unparalleled. It is such a former genius athlete who was moved by Eddie’s repeated defeats and perseverance. He encouraged Eddie when he was down, spurred when he was proud, and congratulated when he succeeded, even if he knew he would not get a medal. Devotion to help him realize his dreams.


Not a genius but want to succeed, not an eagle but eager to soar, not a champion but perfect counterattack, not a hero but win applause! Ordinary Eddie is still so brave even though it is so difficult, overwhelming attempts, desperate perseverance, he is worthy of dreams for you and me, to regain the strength to move forward, to regain the courage of the past.

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Eddie the Eagle quotes

  • Matti Nykänen: You and I... You and I are like one o'clock and eleven o'clock. You see, we are closer to each other than to others. Winning, losing, all that stuff is for the little people. Men like us, we jump to free our souls. We are the only two jumpers with a chance to make history today. If we do less than our best with the whole world watching, it will kill us inside. For all time.

    Eddie Edwards: Good luck, Matti.

  • Official Speaker: [At the Closing Ceremony of the Calgary Olympics] You have broken world records. You have established many of your own personal bests and some of you have even soared like an eagle.