Personality and decision

Nakia 2022-03-21 09:01:47

DuPont is a top businessman, but he has spent his life pursuing his mother's approval, and he is also immersed in the obsession of being the spiritual leader of others. Under his own power, he can use capital to build up his hobbies, and he can also use capital to buy the honor of winning wrestling, but he does not dare to say anything to his mother, and only dares to let go of her horse after her mother goes west to vent himself. emotion. After a long period of precipitation, the twisted character and the obsession of being the spiritual leader of others made DuPont finally let himself go on the road of crime when facing the threat of David's brother, causing many tragedies. DuPont's sitting posture in the movie and his unrequited expression always make him feel that his heart is really empty.

Mark, the Olympic gold medalist, knows the bottleneck of his career, and also knows that he must seize the opportunity when faced with it. But he doesn't know much about the reality of society. Capitalists will always do things that are beneficial. He also doesn't know that he has been dependent on his brother for so many years. His brother's careful care of him has made him not as mature as his peers. So he could be brainwashed by the history of the DuPont family. When DuPont used verbal violence against him, his reaction was to get angry, betting with DuPont and his brother. The failure of that game completely broke his mind. When he was most lonely and helpless, his brother stayed by his side as always to solve problems with him. Grateful, he went back again, to the role that always needed to be protected by his brother. It was not until his brother was killed that Dupont was angered by protecting him in the end, and it was at this time that he really took on his own life. At the end of the film he is in the wrestling club, his back becomes tougher and his face more painful, but this pain makes people stronger and more attractive.

David, he never knew what he wanted. Mark said that when DuPont asked him to go with them when he found them, he refused, and Mark did not want to continue to leave together at Fox Hunter, and he also refused. Because he had a grudge against his early days of living without a fixed place, he wanted too much to have a stable life and then protect his family. So the Seoul Olympics Mark failed, David would use himself to blackmail DuPont, and he would stress to DuPont, who drove to him, that it was family time on the weekend.

It is probably that everything is connected, and there are reasons for people's personalities and decisions.

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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.