挑战星期天

i feel moved, everytime i saw Al giving the speech 'inch by inch', i would cry. we can review that here: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTcyMzI3MDA4.html

成功！对每个人都不一样。因为我们的追求不同。所以，当有一群人拥有同一个目标，并为之而努力奋斗时，其力量要比我们每一个分开的个人要强大的多，所谓1+1>2。而清楚自己所处的位置，明白自己所要做的事情，就能让我们立于不败。以上是我对于电影浅薄的理解。艾尔.帕西诺，卡梅伦.迪亚兹这对老少配，的确对我的吸引力不小，所以电影开场（准确的说是，大牌演员的名字出现）时我能很快进入状态。

Oliver Stone+ Al Pacino+Cameron Diaz +Jamie Foxx，
这是个足以吸引观众观看的阵容。

故事还是同样体育励志的套路，并且看个开头你也知道有如何的结果。
不过大导演，总是能够拍出味道，或者说，拍出他自己的一贯味道。

人物说话时画面的穿插，将主角们的言语变成画外音，这种手法，特别是加插真实（黑白的）历史画面的闪回，似乎都是大导爱用的技艺，在《刺杀肯尼迪》也有不少的运用，这些使得电影有种纪录片的倾向。

比赛运动场面的拍得出色的，非常动感，是其它同类片所少见的。

大导同样还喜欢在电影中来些思考，或许套个词，就是所谓的“宏大叙事”，any given sunday探讨的是关于商业化和体育之间的关系。当然，这似乎已经不是什么问题，很难想象犹如骨和肉般的体育和商业如何分离开来，一项体育没有商业的支撑，其艰难程度可想而知。

不过这并非一个不值得讨论的问题。

我们再也回不到纯体育的年代，今天的古希腊运动员再在运动场上裸奔，我们不会赞扬他们的身体线条美，只会疑惑他们是不是没有赞助商；不过过度的商业化，带来的是什么？某个国家的国家足球队的事迹咱就不提了……

这最终还是归结于在商业化面前，体育人的内心衡量。剧中的jamie foxx终究是醒悟过来的，然而，这毕竟是电影。

没看全，看的是后面的2/3。
但我喜欢，不为别的，只为了帕西诺在与小牛队决战前更衣室内的那段话，掷地有声，仅是旁观者的我们，也能为之热血沸腾……试想在那个情景下，不再考虑前程、金钱及其他，只想为了比赛，为了尊严，为了运动本身……那是一种值得一生回忆的心灵历程。

I am not an American football fan. It is too tough, too cruel. However, football is one of the cultures. Once the Packers won the Super Bowl, its player was on Grammy. This made me want to know more about this game.

It is a sport film all around football. It is a fascinating game as you can see how easily people get excited and how expensive Super Bowl commercials become. It is also a dangerous game. People get hurt, get wounded or even die. It is a game requires strong body, basic instinct and strategy as well. I guess it is not an easy game to learn or make a living with.

Al did not show up a lot until the final game. His speech before the game is amazingly inspiration. You will go through the growth of Beaman. Facing the sudden success and being on the bench again, what will you do?

It is a great film. You learn what teamwork is. They will look into your eyes and they gonna believe you. They will do whatever they can to help you because they know if you are in their place, you will do the same. That is a team and that will be the most important part when you look back your life and remember the most.

On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or lose; but you have to win or lose like a man…

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Al Pacino’s Inch By Inch speech from Any Given Sunday

I don’t know what to say, really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team or we’re gonna crumble, inch by inch, play by play, ’til we’re finished.

We’re in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me. And, we can stay here — get the shit kicked out of us — or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell one inch at a time.

Now, I can’t do it for you. I’m too old. I look around. I see these young faces, and I think — I mean — I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that’s…part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small — I mean one-half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it.

The inches we need are everywhere around us.

They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the fuckin’ difference between winning and losing! Between livin’ and dyin’!

I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin’ to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin’ is! The six inches in front of your face!!

Now I can’t make you do it. You got to look at the guy next to you. Look into his eyes! Now I think you’re gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You’re gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows, when it comes down to it, you’re gonna do the same for him!

That’s a team, gentleman!

And, either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

That’s football guys.

That’s all it is.

Now, what are you gonna do?