Snow Jumping to Liberate the Soul

Thelma 2022-03-24 09:02:00

Eddie's dream is to participate in the Winter Olympics, but his skiing skills are despised by coaches, and no one has signed up for high-altitude snow jumping. According to the rules, as long as he learns to ski jump, he is eligible to enter the Olympic Games, so Eddie is determined to sign up for high-altitude ski jumping. After the adventure of almost breaking his neck, he finally got the advice of the frustrated retired genius Pete. After the successful 60-meter platform jump, he should have qualified for the competition according to the existing rules. The officials of the sports department saw that the result was humiliating and expensive, and urgently raised the threshold, but Eddie broke through the threshold again with Pitt's help, and the officials regretted that the threshold was still set low. Anyway, Eddie finally qualified for the Olympics.

I think the most important sentence in the movie is at the back of the movie. In the 0-meter platform competition, Eddie, who ranked the bottom, and the Finnish snow jumper who ranked first, were in the elevator together. The Finnish boy said to Eddie: "Actually, we It's like 1 o'clock and 11 o'clock on the clock, it's very close. Losing and winning are vulgar things, and we snow to free our souls."

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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.