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The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 5, 2012, 12:49 am
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The Sports Genre is one of my favorites. I'm a sucker for it and
I've seen my fair share to see a lot of very similar scenes play
out over and over.
One Last Shot - This is usually the set up for the entire movie.
An athlete, a coach or a team is given one last shot....a
million to one shot that is to compete for the biggest prize in
the sport the movie is about. They are usually down and out and
beyond repair, which adds to the charm of redemption.
Training Montage - Every single sports movie I have ever seen
always has the 'Training Montage' and it usually comes right
after their lowest moment where they doubt their ability to get
it done.
The Jealous Friend - Usually someone from the athletes past, who
is a good friend to them, is jealous about their shot and has to
look in the mirror at their own failings in life. Somehow, he or
she wises up and gives them their support to get the brass ring,
because through them, they too succeed.
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Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Neumatic Date: December 5, 2012, 1:03 am
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Speed Racer pulled an amazing one, Speed finally wins a race and
it's the BIG race at the end-- in a sequence I love-- but he had
to win another race in order to qualify. How did they pull that
off?
Double points on the training montage for the unlikely training
montage, where they do things not associated with the sport in
order to learn the sport (the Mighty Ducks tossing footballs
around to learn ice hockey, for example). I do love the
montage, though.
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Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 5, 2012, 1:10 am
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Training Montages are crowd pleasers and when it's paired up
with a great song, even more so. I'd be p i s s e d if a
Sports movie didn't have a Montage. I'd probably walk out of the
theater or eject the DVD if there wasn't one.
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Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Neumatic Date: December 5, 2012, 1:26 am
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They're big in Superhero movies too. In fact, "Superhero Movie
" itself didn't have one... I don't know if it was intentional
or not, but I noticed it missing when the hero fights the
villain for the first time and gets his as s HANDED to him
because he doesn't know how to fight. If it was an intentional
omission, it's a little brilliant.
How often is the love interest of the star player (it's always
about the star player, isn't it?) one of the cheerleaders for
his team, out of curiosity?
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Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Mac Date: January 4, 2013, 5:40 pm
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The old grumpy octogenarian who can't let go of the old ways
His wife died years ago but can't seem to let go.
Missed his relationship with his child and the movie focuses on
that reconciliation.
His career completely depends on his eyesight which is going bad
and refuses to admit he has a problem.
There is young guy who's wanting his career and is jerkish,
arrogant
another young guy has eyes for grumpy guys daughter... that does
not sit will with him
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Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Neumatic Date: January 5, 2013, 9:38 am
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That's the very obvious dividing line there, if the actor's past
a certain age, he's management but pines for the physical
activity side of it and definitely hating that he can't do it
anymore. The fear of getting old shown by being incapable of
doing something that only a limited number of people can
actually do well.
If it's a younger actor, he's a rough talent in the sport that
needs to be refined ad hued, but her grows and finds love and
everything wraps up right at the "big" game.
If it's a one-on-one thing like fighting, that young man might
need to do some illegal and underground games to get practice
and a little earning scratch, because of course he comes from
humble beginnings.
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Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 5, 2013, 9:59 am
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Watch Bull Durham. It's literally two sides of the same coin
with the aging Ballplayer mentoring the new Superstar
Ballplayer, both with the goal of getting to "The Show".
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Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
By: Neumatic Date: January 9, 2013, 10:13 am
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We mentioned Lane Smith in the "My Cousin Vinny" review, how
often in movies do we have a case where the antagonist coached
or guided the protagonist, like Lane Smith in "Mighty Ducks?"
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