Plot running account--serious spoilers--not a movie review--personal memo

Nannie 2022-03-27 09:01:05

1984 Los Angeles Olympic gold medalist Mark Schultz and David Dave Schultz are preparing for the World Championships and the 1988 Olympics. Although an Olympic champion, Mark's financial situation is not rich, and sometimes he needs to rely on relief.

One day Mark accepted the invitation of the millionaire DuPont and came to Mr. DuPont's manor. Mr. DuPont offered to provide him with better training conditions and a monthly salary of 1,000 US dollars to let him form his own team in the Fox Hunter Club to participate in the competition.

Mark invited his brother to go with him. Considering the family and his existing contract, the older brother refused to go, but encouraged his younger brother to accept the opportunity.

It started off well and Mark formed his own team and won the gold medal at the World Championships. The relationship with Mr. DuPont has also become increasingly close, respecting him like a father and a teacher.

Mr. Dupont's eccentricities gradually revealed that he did not like his mother's arrangements for him, but he also hoped that his mother and the public would recognize him. He took Mark to various banquets and had Mark raving about him in his speeches. He let Mark take drugs, drink alcohol and live in an irregular state of life without considering the consequences.

He personally participated in the competition he sponsored and won the gold medal, but he was completely unrecognized by his mother.

The Olympic qualifiers are approaching. Due to the dispute over training methods, Mark and Mr. DuPont have conflicts. Mr. DuPont invites Mark's brother Dave at all costs. At this time, Mark also had resistance to his brother.

In the Olympic qualifiers, Mark encountered a crisis, but with the help of his brother, he finally got through the difficulties and qualified for the Olympic Games.

At this time, Mr. DuPont's mother just died. It's hard to know if it was more grief or relief for Mr. Dupont, who released his mother's many famous stallions into the wild.

Mr. Dupont invited to set up the team to shoot a documentary for his team, the biggest purpose is to show his importance in the team.

At this stage, Mark has been in poor condition and failed to achieve results in the Olympic Games. After returning to China, Mr. Dupont will expel Mark from his manor.

Dave continued to work at Mr. DuPont, but Dave only regarded Mr. DuPont as his boss and strictly divided his personal time and space, which made DuPont dissatisfied. After watching the documentary filmed before the Olympic Games again. Mr. Dupont came to Dave's house and shot Dave without warning.

DuPont was arrested and died in prison years later.

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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.