These guys think they will join Brooks in choosing the American finalists after a week of tryouts, but Brooks announces his final cut on the first day of practice; he already knows who he wants, and doesn't require any advice. He's looking for kids who are hungry and passionate and need to win. Most of the time, the team is seen as a unit. We begin to recognize their faces, but not much is done to develop them as individuals. The exception is the goaltender, Jim Craig Eddie Cahill.
He refuses to take a psychological exam that Brooks hands out, and Brooks tells him that, by not taking it, "you just took it. We know all the cliches of the modern sports movie, but "Miracle" sidesteps a lot of them. Eric Guggenheim's screenplay, directed by Gavin O'Connor , is not about how some of the players have little quirks that they cure, or about their girl, or about villains that have to be overcome. It's about practicing hard and winning games.
It doesn't even bother to demonize the opponents. When the team finally faces the Soviets, they're depicted as -- well, simply as the other team. Their coach has a dark, forbidding manner and doesn't smile much, but he's not a Machiavellian schemer, and the Soviets don't play any dirtier than most teams do in hockey. Altman was fascinated by the leadership style of the company's artistic director, and how he deliberately uses strategy and underlings to create an aura of mysterious authority.
And he dealt dispassionately with injuries, which are a fact of life and can end a career in a second. In keeping with its analytical style, the movie doesn't use a lot of trick photography in the hockey games. Unlike the fancy shots in a movie like " The Mighty Ducks ," this one films the hockey matches more or less the way they might look in a good documentary, or a superior TV broadcast.
We're in the middle of the confusion on the ice, feeling the energy rather than focusing on plot points. That leaves Kurt Russell and his character Herb Brooks as the center and reason for the film. Although playing a hockey coach might seem like a slap shot for an actor, Russell does real acting here.
He has thought about Brooks and internalized him; the real Brooks was available as a consultant to the film. And Russell and O'Connor create a study of a personality, of a man who is leading young men through a process that led him to disappointment 20 years earlier. He has ideas about hockey and ideas about coaching, and like the Zen master Phil Jackson begins with philosophy, not strategy.
Crazy credits Dedicated to Herb Brooks who died shortly after principal photography was completed. He never saw it. He lived it. Soundtracks Mr. User reviews Review. Top review. I don't like hockey, but this was a good movie. I was too young to have known anything about this game when it was played in real life, but it was definitely more than a game. It concerned world politics and the cold war.
The movie did a good job showing how seemingly impossible it seemed for the young American team to beat the best team in the world who had been playing together for 10 years. And Kurt Russell did a good job as the tough coach who was hard on the players to get the most out of them. I also liked the way the hockey games were filmed. I think hockey is the most boring sport and I don't know any of the rules, but the way it was filmed let the least knowlegdable person follow what was going on.
FAQ 3. What was the Soviet team roster? Were all of the players on the Soviet team Russian? Why did canadian goalie Bill Ranford play the goalie double? Details Edit. Release date February 6, United States. Canada United States. Official site. Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
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