It is undeniable that this film is on fire again! Even though the film was the opening night movie of the Sundance Film Festival in early 2015, after more than a year, Sony Pictures finally bought the distribution rights, and in mid-March of this year, it began to be released on a large scale in North America. Like "Divergent 3", it is in the middle of the schedule of "Zoo City" and "Batman v Superman" as one of the more choices. But pay attention to it a little bit, this film is actually very close to us. The "distance" here is what Xiao Xuan'er wants to talk about is the actor's familiarity. For example, this heroine with a dazzling expression on her face, take a closer look, isn't it the violent wife of Howard in the "Big Bang Theory" series! I believe you will definitely be impressed by this petite actress, but skillfully using a thick accent, and often imitating the passages of Howard's mother in the play.
Life in a small town is sometimes a more extreme social microcosm. People who are too closely connected to each other sometimes become mutual restraints. The closer the distance, the greater the mutual influence. This is also the reason why creators like to make essays around the town. The recent "Tailor" also makes good use of the tension between the town environment and the characters. In Melissa Rauch's view, the same thing might be more dramatic if it happened to a 16-year-old American gymnast. When someone asked her why gymnastics is something, she joked that I, an actress who is five feet tall, can't play a basketball player. The gymnast is just over 150 centimeters tall for her. So the brewing of this sports film gradually began to take shape. When Melissa Rauche and his wife wrote the script and selected the director, Brian Barkley not only impressed them with his exquisite speech, but also said a very key expectation. He felt that this film should Presents the general temperament of David O. Russell's "Fighter". Let’s not talk about whether the final effects of the two films are the same, but the two sides hit it off immediately. The consensus they reached is more on the gray area of showing the inner characters of the characters.
This film is by no means a sports inspirational film of our conventional consciousness. It is absolutely two extremes from the silly and touching "Flying Eagle Eddie" at the beginning of the year. The "Bronze Medal Superstar" described in the film very interestingly used the character background to portray her into a strange character who is dressed in a hero's coat, but with the heroic character inside, which differs by thousands of miles. The internal and external contrast of this character created her weirdness and attracted the attention of the audience. The American sweetheart of the year was named Hope Ann Gregory. She was brought up by her single father and finally made her way to the Olympic Games at the age of 16, but in the balance beam event, she severely sprained her ankle. She refused to get in a wheelchair to leave the field, and was carried to the field of the last vault by the coach, completing her excellent jump. Then he became an American hero and was sought after by people all over the world, the country, and the town as a gymnastics star. So this teenage girl, the pendulum of life stopped at this moment, more than ten years later, she has never moved forward, old injuries interrupted her sports career, and she never replaced herself 2004 The uniform of the Athens Olympic Games in 2016, she said that this hero should wear it.
This movie uses the routine of suppressing first and then raising to the extreme. In the first half, the heroine of the show: Hope, who swears with her own Laozi all day, ignores former friends, and takes over the coaching of the new gymnastics because of the legacy of the coach who passed away. As soon as she came up, she made the rising star of the American gymnastics world a fat girl with a swimming ring around her waist, unable to jump on the uneven bars. For Hope, there is only one star in the town, and that is the self that year, and what he has to do in the next half of his life is to protect his star status, and nothing else.
Of course, such extreme extremes must be corrected by someone, or be corrected by others. The weak and funny father in the film, after sending his daughter to the pinnacle of life for the first time, he never gave up caring for her for the rest of his lost life, and this time, he unscrupulously let his daughter try to become a new gymnastics rookie The coach is proof that he has worked hard again. The father-daughter relationship in the film is full of absurdity, vulgarity and funny, but it is also warm and touching in the end. In the film, the old actor who plays Hope’s father: Gary Cole and Melissa Rauch are old partners. In the film, one wears only postal overalls, one wears only competition sportswear, and the family uniforms. Control, very interesting.
In the process of going from a sports star to a sports coach, Hope experienced fierce collisions with athletes, teaching assistants, and competitors. Among them, there are the friendship between teachers and students, the spark of love, and of course, the well-known bed scene against the sky. The reason why the film did not slide all the way to the abyss of vulgarity is the contrast behind these heavy taste elements. The more foreshadowing 30 minutes before the plot, Hope’s intoxicated star life, the audience will be able to feel more, after she coached the newcomers, she retreated behind the scenes of the contrast and loss. Hope will want to disrupt all of this happening, just like every normal person with a selfish mind. In the end, she did not do that. When countless media reporters no longer surrounded her, but pushed her away from the champion athletes, she walked backstage silently, which also made us feel the obscurity of the coach. Just ask who can come out one by one now, the name of the coach of the world-class champion.
Hope and the shy teaching assistant cannot develop an ordinary love relationship, which reflects that Hope has never been a mature girl. She can have a one-night stand with a hostile coach for many years to vent her anger and dissatisfaction, but she can't earnestly thank people. Or apologize, bear a responsible feeling, father and admirer are disappointed and worried about her. When she finally saw that the people in the small town were following her and following new stars, she decided that she didn't want to be the star that flashed by. What she wanted to be was Coach Hope.
There are also many interesting characters in the film, such as the mother of a new gymnastics rookie, who is an ordinary cleaner, but the film does not portray it with sympathy. And another emotional line, the teaching assistant with hemifacial spasm, is an indispensable flavoring agent in the film. He is the boy who can see the weak side of Hope. In his eyes, Hope is a girl who deserves to be taken seriously, not a big star.
This is not a biopic in the strict sense. The film is classified into plot and comedy. It was filmed in a small town in Ohio with only a small budget. Among them, Marvel’s "Winter Soldier" was invited to help out, and they staged a love action scene with Melissa Rauch, which was really shocking and jaw-dropping. I have to say that in this age of excessive force, more and more tasteful elements allow us to curse vulgarity while enjoying a different visual sense, and the media has countless topics to talk about.
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