The ape and its owner

Rodolfo 2021-11-29 08:01:18

A work that fits perfectly from the script to the director and interpretation. The story is calm and unpretentious, with layers of paving and dripping, the establishment, suspicion, and collapse of the relationship between the characters are revealed calmly and shockingly. To what extent, after watching the prototype story and a lot of behind-the-scenes introductions, I was still frightened by the many shots and the overall atmosphere.
What makes me most frightened is that it reflects a role relationship similar to that of an ape and its owner, a relationship of flattering and being pleased, passive and controlling, counterattack and being attacked.
This relationship is reflected between Mark and John du Pont and between John du Pont and his mother. It is also prominently reflected in two sets of shots:
Mark, who dyed his hair and became addicted to drugs, was completely reduced to John du Pont’s private collection. He lay on the ground in the middle of the night to train with him, even shave him, squatted in front of him and asked him how he was. Channing Tatum contributed a very distinctive performance. In his primitive body movements, he showed developed limbs and simple mind everywhere, especially when he squatted in front of John du Pont, pretending to attack and then beat Du Pont's. The movement of the knees made an orangutan alive.
And when John du Pont watched his mother on the training ground, in order to show his coaching status, he pretended to instruct the players, even took out his assassin, and lay on the ground to let the players open him. This set of actions looks embarrassing to the audience, because they all know that John du Pont is a fake trick with no real ability. In the eyes of the audience, these actions are no different from juggling; but in the eyes of his mother, obsessed with these "disgusting" "The son of the sport is no different from the clown.
John du Pont raises Mark with desire, ambition, and recognition, and John du Pont has to behave in his mother in all kinds of ways to seek recognition. He has a deformed inferiority complex and a sense of satisfaction. On the one hand, he is weak in his heart because of his mother. Power attracts more "collectibles".
However, Mark also colluded with others to fake John du Pont’s wrestling victory, which showed that Mark knew how well John du Pont was outside. It was okay for him to be humiliated and turned over immediately after John du Pont gave him a slap. see.
"What qualifications do you have to insult me? What is your ability to insult me?" The state of the instructor and apprentice at the beginning was already overwhelmed by lustful desires, the mask was torn, gifts and prizes disappeared, and he shaved off his blond hair as if After tearing off the belonging mark that Du Pont had branded on him, the apes immediately attacked the owner.
This is something John du Pont did not estimate, because he did not treat these athletes as adults from the beginning, just his playthings, gold medals, and pets who could accompany him in wrestling games at any time. And without the true ability of wrestling, he will never win the long-term and true respect of these athletes.
That's why Dave squeezed out the only compliment so reluctantly. Dave is very sober. He really helps his younger brother. He treats wrestling as a profession, and his cooperation with John du Pont as a business. He has a happy family. All this prevented John du Pont from buying him. Realizing that temptation is useless, John du Pont once again tried to pose as a noble man, saying a few bluffing words about patriotic values, but he was scared out of the scene before he could say it. The man in front of him was completely insufficient like Mark. Call him John instead of Mr. Du Pont.
John du Pont was on the verge of collapsing to the point where he could hear the crunching mentality. He reached a critical point when watching the video tape. He talked to the camera alone, as if repeating his great achievements to his mother. In his knowledge, either people surrendered to his feet, or his mother did not look at him contemptuously.
"Do you have any problem?" The sentence exposed his imbalance when the shot was fired. This person who did not respect him and rejected the rope he threw, dared to look directly instead of looking up, and dared not to squat in front of him to show his goodness, only It takes a few shots to vent your anger.
Steve Carell, the perverted wealthy monster played by Steve Carell, became the source of half of the horror as the soul of the whole movie. In Miller’s vision, a dude brought a group of wrestlers to the Olympics, which was a crazy situation. His conception is fully presented. In this crazy, weird and weird picture, a group of orangutans driven by a whip is running around the field of the DuPont family, running back and forth with the precious horse group.

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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.