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{{quote|"I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure."|'''Eric Liddell'''}}
''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' is based on the two [[Real Life]] athletes Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, who competed for Britain in the 1924
The film is largely notable today for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJzcUvS_NU its score], by Vangelis, who was famous for making incredible music with synthesizers, despite the hatred in the music industry for those devices.
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** Sybil was never the lead singer for an opera company.
* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]]: A cricket match at the beginning was changed in the US release to a scene where Harold and Aubrey see some disfigured [[World War I]] veterans at a train stations, and someone swore.
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Eric.
* [[The Big Race]]
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Lindsay is implied to be this. He's a very talented athlete, but never shows the same kind of dedication and self-abandonment that Eric and Harold do.
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* [[Notable Original Music]]: And this is turned into a [[Memetic Mutation]], thanks to its use when someone is running in ''slow-motion''.
* [[Opposing Sports Team]]: Averted. The American track team are reasonably decent people.
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: a notably amiable form in which everyone was greeting each
* [[Period Piece]]
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] : Harold gives this to the Cambridge Masters.
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