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OlleDemens
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OlleDemens
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Fantastic
If you look at the most successful sports, in terms of making successful transitions to film, Baseball and Boxing are the runaway leaders. That's because there is so much romance attributed to the people that are associated with their respective sports that the writer has a much broader canvass to paint his picture with.
The trick with a good sports film is to not actually have the crux of the film being about winning or losing.
SamboXIV
For comedy purposes, not films but Being Liverpool and Graham Taylor documentary of when he was England boss.
chokosc
Dutton
Edit - full film here haha.
Pippadoc
smurphptfc
Zog
Phoenix Arrow
I'm not so sure. I think pretty much every sports film, regardless of the sport, boils down to a simple underdog story. That's the nature of competition. Noone wants to watch the big team molest everyone. It can only really work if you manage to make people care about the characters. Then they'll give a fuck when the underdog comes through in the end.
The Platypus
I think the key word in your post is "character".
Watching the underdog means nothing if we don't care about the characters involved. And you can watch a top dog fall from grace if it's an interesting character.
Raging Bull for instance isn't necessarily about an underdog, at least not in the world of boxing. Though one could argue that it's about an underdog in society.
Phoenix Arrow
Yeah, my food was ready so I didn't finish my point.
The point was that it's pretty easy to make a mainstream audience feel good about a little kid playing baseball. The people who play football tend not to be gentlemen. The image that surrounds it is one of violence and thuggery so it's hard to shake that. I would find it interesting if they made a film about Justin Fashanu though.
Crane
Oh wait, Cocksock has. Typical.
Tommo.
Crane
The Platypus
Also, listen to Charlie Hunnam's accent.
hammer9