39,327
edits
Chariots of Fire: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
m (remove unneccessary quote box template) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 7:
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.
{{tropelist}}
* [[Artistic License]]: Several scenes were altered from [[Real Life]] to help the drama.
** Abrahams finished last in the 200 meters after winning gold in the 100. This was changed to before in the movie to make that win more of a triumph.
Line 16 ⟶ 15:
* [[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
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: The title score was never played at the triumphant scenes, despite what parodies do.
* [[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.
Line 30 ⟶ 29:
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: a notably amiable form in which everyone was greeting each other's flags, etc and assuming themselves and everyone else was part of a [[True Companions|True Companionship]] of nations.
* [[Period Piece]]
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] : Harold gives this to the Cambridge Masters.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] : Eric is red, Harold blue.
* [[The Roaring Twenties]]: Largely averted, even for a British film.
* [[Serious Business]]: For different reasons, running is a matter of life and death for the two leads. Lindsay, by contrast, takes it much less seriously.
| |||