Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Eddie the Eagle

Released: February 26, 2016

Starring: Taron Egerton as Eddie Edwards
Hugh Jackman and Bronson Perry

Directed By: Dexter Fletcher

Written By: Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton




Eddie has been an underdog all of his life. He didn't have very many friends and had a condition when he was younger that required him to wear a brace until he was about 10. However, he had big dreams to be an Olympian. He tried all of the summer sport that he could. He trained as hard as he could until his dad made him go to work with him one day, the day that changed everything. Eddie was introduced to winter sports that day and changed his mind of being a Summer Olympian to a Winter Olympian. He trains to be apart of the 1988 UK Ski Team but he gets kicked off right before the team gets sponsored to go. With just a handful of months left until the 88 Olympics, Eddie turns his eyes to Ski Jumping and travels to Germany to train. There he meets Bronson Perry, an almost one time Ski Jump Olympian, and he finally agrees to train Eddie to qualify in the Olympics.



This is totally a feel good movie! It really is just a sweet story about a boy who has a dream and grows up to accomplish it! It was funny, but it was also dynamic. What I mean by that is that Eddie was kicked off the team for being different not because he was bad at skiing. When he goes into Jumping the only thing that he needs to do to go to the Olympics is just land one jump on the 70 meter jump to qualify. However, when he lands this jump is asked to the UK Olympic Commissions Broad and he told that they changed the rules. That he has to jump a certain amount of feet in order to qualify. They did it only because he was different not because he was not good. I shows his endurance, even after being told no by cheating him out of his qualification, but instead of throwing in the towel he goes on to pursue his dream. If this movie is about anything it's about hope.
 

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