08-30-2016, 10:30 AM
Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics. For reasons that are abundantly clear, I'm interested in the Olympics of this era. I was rewarded by them giving a shout out to Helene Meyer.
The film's title has a double meaning and that's about as clever as this film gets. Yes, Owens has to fight racism at home while proving to the Nazis they are not the master race. I'm kind of tired of 3-D sets at this point and this film uses them a lot to recreate 1936 Berlin. The story is pretty simplistic and charts Owens rise from just joining Ohio State to his eventual victories in Berlin. Ohio State is full of racists as you would expect from this period in American History, but Owens races on. The movie makes it a point to show he is no saint because he does have a kid out of wedlock and has an affair with a woman while still promising to marry his baby mama.
The film is medium interesting. Jason Sudekis is, oddly, the best thing in the film. He really captures something as Owen's coach. The cast is pretty well filled with Jeremy Irons and William Hurt as warring factions of the go or not go factions to Germany. I've been doing a lot reading recently about the Olympic games so this back and forth was pretty familiar.
My patience paid off towards the end when Owens and his coach go off to have a discussion about whether to race in the last race. They have the discussion where the sabre teams are practicing. Of course, they do. I'm going to pretend one of the guys practicing was Endre Kabos.
The film's title has a double meaning and that's about as clever as this film gets. Yes, Owens has to fight racism at home while proving to the Nazis they are not the master race. I'm kind of tired of 3-D sets at this point and this film uses them a lot to recreate 1936 Berlin. The story is pretty simplistic and charts Owens rise from just joining Ohio State to his eventual victories in Berlin. Ohio State is full of racists as you would expect from this period in American History, but Owens races on. The movie makes it a point to show he is no saint because he does have a kid out of wedlock and has an affair with a woman while still promising to marry his baby mama.
The film is medium interesting. Jason Sudekis is, oddly, the best thing in the film. He really captures something as Owen's coach. The cast is pretty well filled with Jeremy Irons and William Hurt as warring factions of the go or not go factions to Germany. I've been doing a lot reading recently about the Olympic games so this back and forth was pretty familiar.
My patience paid off towards the end when Owens and his coach go off to have a discussion about whether to race in the last race. They have the discussion where the sabre teams are practicing. Of course, they do. I'm going to pretend one of the guys practicing was Endre Kabos.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm