I didn't invent the Razzies list or put those films on there, and while Annie's ok for a movie musical, it's not great.
If Chariots of Fire was just about the running, that would be one thing. The key to Chariots is the same story, relatively speaking, as Jesse Owens in '36: how do you as a culture and nation react when your national hero is someone who you've otherwise treated as an outsider his entire life. On the English side, it deals directly with the loss of the immortality and invincibility of the Victorian age, with this new (again) idea that if England is going to continue to be great, someone's going to have to work for it. It's also heavily about the role of faith in personal identity (something I've been struggling with for the last 8 years), contrasting the man whose faith overrides peoples expectations of his choices (Liddle) with a man who doesn't want his heritage to overwhelm the identity he's trying to build, but living in a society that refuses to separate them.
It wasn't your typical sports film, of the underdog hero making the big catch and saving the day. It was far the more other end: showing men of character, worthy of respect and emulation, who just happen to be runners who won in '24.
Does that make it kinda boring compared to other sports films? Probably. There are many that hate Hoosiers (or even Field of Dreams when contrasted with Bull Durham) for the same reason, but it's another film I happen to love.
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If Chariots of Fire was just about the running, that would be one thing. The key to Chariots is the same story, relatively speaking, as Jesse Owens in '36: how do you as a culture and nation react when your national hero is someone who you've otherwise treated as an outsider his entire life. On the English side, it deals directly with the loss of the immortality and invincibility of the Victorian age, with this new (again) idea that if England is going to continue to be great, someone's going to have to work for it. It's also heavily about the role of faith in personal identity (something I've been struggling with for the last 8 years), contrasting the man whose faith overrides peoples expectations of his choices (Liddle) with a man who doesn't want his heritage to overwhelm the identity he's trying to build, but living in a society that refuses to separate them.
It wasn't your typical sports film, of the underdog hero making the big catch and saving the day. It was far the more other end: showing men of character, worthy of respect and emulation, who just happen to be runners who won in '24.
Does that make it kinda boring compared to other sports films? Probably. There are many that hate Hoosiers (or even Field of Dreams when contrasted with Bull Durham) for the same reason, but it's another film I happen to love.