Coming Soon: The Michael Phelps Movie
I can see the opening scene now: Phelps shoveling down his 12,000-calorie breakfast, ending with those chocolate chip pancakes. There must be tons of footage available already thanks to all of those digital camcorders and video cameras that have been following him around.
I haven’t thought about swimming much since I was a kid, but watching Michael Phelps at the Olympics made me notice that something is missing from my life: the opportunity to eat whatever I want and not have it show.
Thinking of Phelps and all of the technology-assisted broken records as the subject of a film made me think of how Hollywood has looked at sports over the years. Here is a short list of my personal favorites:
Rocky just rates an honorable message in my book.
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Don’t forget “American Anthem”…it actually stars Olympic Gold medalist Mitch Gaylord!
An interesting selection of films there, but unfortunately in the UK it’s harder to relate to a baseball movie, although good films, I still don’t get the rules
Now… Chariots of Fire, That’s a good film
How about Tarzan staring Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, although I can’t quite picture Phelps swinging from tree to tree.
What about cool running’s
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