This article is written for basketball fans: People don’t stop playing when they get old, but they grow old when they don’t play.
What are the keywords for sports movies? It's a counterattack. "The Birth of a Legend", "Lee Chong Wei: The Loser is King"... The sports movies of the past two years have all talked about the various difficulties of talented players at the beginning, and finally counterattacked as a generation of football champions.
What are the keywords of comedy movies? is unexpected. In "The Richest Man in Xihong City", Wang Duoyu, a poor man, had a hard life at the beginning and made things together, but suddenly there are 1 billion in various tricks, and the audience unexpectedly; The poor people's thinking can't be changed all of a sudden, so all kinds of funny events happened, which were unexpected again.
["The Richest Man in Xihong City" starring Shen Teng]
So, what does a sports comedy movie look like? It's a counter attack + unexpected. In 2014, PepsiCo shot a "Counterattack + Intention" commercial: an old man Uncle Drew came to the side of the court to watch young people play. As a result, there were not enough people on the court, so someone invited the uncle to play to make up the number of people. So, he came on.
【Uncle Drew with gray hair】
After playing, he was really crowded, he couldn't catch the ball, he couldn't shoot, and his defense was overwhelmed... Even passers-by began to laugh at him. The subtext was: Basketball is a sport for young people. what to do?
But Uncle Drew is Uncle Drew, and he was a legend on the street when he was young. After throwing a few 3-point shots, after being passed a few times, he also started his activities and began to kill the Quartet: passing, stealing, breaking through, three-pointers, dunks... Heaven and earth, omnipotent, simply Like a professional player who came to the rookie group to abuse vegetables.
[Uncle Drew is abusing vegetables, he is very relaxed]
[Uncle Drew dunks after breaking through]
A white-bearded old man who was swaying while walking suddenly turned into a god of war on the basketball court. Just unexpected. So, this short film called "Uncle Drew" is a typical sports comedy movie.
An old man is so powerful, is this unscientific? Of course not scientific, the short film finally revealed the answer: the old man was actually played by Kyrie Irving, transformed through makeup.
[Owen turns into Uncle Drew]
[Owen turns into Uncle Drew]
Basketball fans all know: Irving was the No. 1 pick in the NBA in 2011, and was selected to the All-Star team and the All-NBA team for many times. When such a person arrives on the field, what can he do to ordinary basketball fans except to abuse vegetables?
[Irving's game with the Cavaliers]
This short film is very inspirational and funny, and at the same time does not violate scientific principles. The short film tells the audience: even if you have a gray beard, you have the right to pursue your basketball dream.
Because of inspiration and passion, the short film became popular as soon as it was launched in 2014. PepsiCo responded to everyone's expectations and launched the second, third, and fourth films, and the latter ones successfully invited Kevin Love, Lei · Allen, Nate Robinson, Baron Davis and other stars, and even invited the female trapeze Maya Moore.
The trapeze Maya Moore plays Betty. She not only makes various breakthroughs and three-pointers, but also dunks on the head of a young man, because the trapeze can dunk in the official game, and the defense is weak on the field. childlike.
[Female trapeze Maya Moore as Betty]
[Old lady Betty scores a dunk on a lad's head]
The short film has already surpassed the connotation of a commercial film. All NBA stars want to come and play. After all, who doesn’t want to be inspirational and funny? In this way, the short film received a high score of 9.2 points.
Four years later, the "Uncle Drew" movie is finally released in the United States. Owen continued to lead the lead role, and the stars who appeared in the short film appeared collectively, and also invited Shaquille O'Neal, the actor who was delayed by basketball .
O'Neal plays a big man who has nothing to do when he is old and teaches a group of children kung fu, but he doesn't really like this profession, and he can't wait to drive these little brats away before get out of class. But once on the basketball court, his beast nature is exposed, all kinds of bulldozer-style post-up singles, all kinds of strong eats, and he is simply inhuman. Basically, you can refer to the following scene, which is many times crueler than this scene.
Compared with the short film, the film is obviously more well-made and the story is more complete: a failed streetball coach Dax was abandoned by his teammates, his girlfriend was also snatched by an old enemy on the court, and he was kicked out of the house by his girlfriend carrying a plastic bag on his back. Bags stray everywhere.
[Streetball coach Dax with nothing]
He ran into Uncle Drew (played by Owen) on the side of the court. When he saw Uncle Drew abusing vegetables on the court, he wanted him to be his team member, winning streetball games and winning prize money.
[Uncle Drew abuses vegetables]
In the end, Uncle Drew was fooled by him and agreed. So, Uncle Drew drove the RV for a few days and nights, gathered several of his teammates, and won the championship, and Dax also overcame the psychological shadow of his childhood and returned as a beauty.
[Can you recognize which star is each? 】
In addition to being inspirational and funny, the movie also filled the audience with two bowls of chicken soup for the soul. The first bowl: People don’t stop playing when they get old, but they grow old from the moment they don’t play. The second bowl: Life is like basketball. to victory .
[Dax finally bravely took a shot and hugged the beauty back]
At the end of the film, many NBA celebrities appeared, such as Mtombo, who is familiar to Chinese audiences, and he appeared to pay tribute to the American streetball legend "Goat" Earl McNicott.
Compared to other sports movies, this movie is fun and a movie worth watching for basketball fans. The classmates who have seen it come to chat.
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