The Greatest Game Ever Played

Started by Ravi, August 29, 2005, 01:37:46 PM

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Ravi

August 29, 2005, 01:37:46 PM


Trailer

Directed by
Bill Paxton

Writing credits (WGA)
Mark Frost (book)
Mark Frost (screenplay)

Plot Outline: A golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where 20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated reigning champion Harry Vardon.

Release date: September 30th 2005.

Starring Shia LaBeouf (!!!)

matt35mm

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August 29, 2005, 02:03:29 PM
Oh.  I had heard of this, but I didn't know that it was directed by Bill Paxton.

I hope it's like Frailty.  With sticks and balls!

Honestly, as a player of golf, I've never seen a movie that ever... showed golf very well.  In fact, they're usually quite bad.  Let's see if this movie changes that.  But the fact that it's set in 1913 doesn't bode well.  Old golf is boring.  Modern golf is more suited to film; it's more exciting, with more electricity, with titanium heads and graphite shafts and golfers bombing the ball 300 yards.  I want to see a movie about that kind of golf.

Also, once people get too serious and dramatic and nostalgic about golf (as with a title like "The Greatest Game Ever Played" or "Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius") and have a whole bunch of maple trees and a golden tint to everything... it becomes boring, just boring.

I've always had it in the back of my mind to make a movie that captured the sense of wildness of a real pro golf tournament.  Not make it about one guy, but about a whole bunch of guys trying to win, and to have a genuine sense of you don't know who the hell's gonna do what or who's gonna win.  Hopefully get it to the point where different audience members will root for different players.  I don't konw, I have to think it through more, but I think that golf can BE a good sport to make a movie about, but that that movie hasn't been made yet.

The Perineum Falcon

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August 29, 2005, 08:11:24 PM
When I first saw the trailer, I thought it was a joke.

I guess not. :yabbse-undecided:
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

NEON MERCURY

#3
August 29, 2005, 08:36:34 PM
is this the same mark frost of twin peaks fame?

mogwai

#4
August 29, 2005, 11:00:45 PM
^
of course!

Gamblour.

#5
August 30, 2005, 12:26:30 AM
My friends and I saw this trailer in theaters and laughed our asses off. What a ridiculous title.
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