Eddie The Eagle

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Just watched the film of Eddie which came on after Match Of The Day.

At the time of his Olympic exploits (1988 in Calgary) Eddie was seen as a joke.
We Brits cringed while everyone else loved him - naturally as he wasn't representing their country!

Yet watching the film, you see the backdrop to the story, the early disability he faced, his dream to be an Olympian, the put downs from his own father (brilliantly played by Keith Allen) and the pompous twats running the British Olympics Committee that discouraged him at every move. This socially awkward kid / teenager / young man who never once let go of his dream when all around him dismissed / mocked / put barriers in his way and fulfilled his dream and represented his country in the Olympics.

Fair play to him. The best of British. A quintessential British man. And fuck the establishment.

 

[NPBlue]

Just watched the film of Eddie which came on after Match Of The Day.

At the time of his Olympic exploits (1988 in Calgary) Eddie was seen as a joke.
We Brits cringed while everyone else loved him - naturally as he wasn't representing their country!

Yet watching the film, you see the backdrop to the story, the early disability he faced, his dream to be an Olympian, the put downs from his own father (brilliantly played by Keith Allen) and the pompous twats running the British Olympics Committee that discouraged him at every move. This socially awkward kid / teenager / young man who never once let go of his dream when all around him dismissed / mocked / put barriers in his way and fulfilled his dream and represented his country in the Olympics.

Fair play to him. The best of British. A quintessential British man. And fuck the establishment.

It's a good watch, but it's a film with a licence on the truth, as many historical films are.

Eddie stated he liked the film, but it was only 5% accurate.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

It's a good watch, but it's a film with a licence on the truth, as many historical films are.

Eddie stated he liked the film, but it was only 5% accurate.

Oh.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

It's a good watch, but it's a film with a licence on the truth, as many historical films are.

Eddie stated he liked the film, but it was only 5% accurate.

Exactly this. Starts off with the truth but soon goes downhill.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Exactly this. Starts off with the truth but soon goes downhill.

And so it begins…

 

[dickie davies]

And so it begins…

If you do say snow yourself

 

[J.G.Blue.]

A lot of people laughed at him & took the piss but put those same people at the top of one of those ski jumps & they would not be quite so chirpy :-)

 

[jimharri]

Just watched the film of Eddie which came on after Match Of The Day.

At the time of his Olympic exploits (1988 in Calgary) Eddie was seen as a joke.
We Brits cringed while everyone else loved him - naturally as he wasn't representing their country!

Yet watching the film, you see the backdrop to the story, the early disability he faced, his dream to be an Olympian, the put downs from his own father (brilliantly played by Keith Allen) and the pompous twats running the British Olympics Committee that discouraged him at every move. This socially awkward kid / teenager / young man who never once let go of his dream when all around him dismissed / mocked / put barriers in his way and fulfilled his dream and represented his country in the Olympics.

Fair play to him. The best of British. A quintessential British man. And fuck the establishment.

"We Brits"? I thought you were a septic now?

 

[lefty goldblatt]

I'll take the plunge, and say we Brits are obsessed with the plucky loser

 

[GornikDaze]

"We Brits"? I thought you were a septic now?

Only when the maga cap fits