Rowing In Movies?
Charlie Freed
first 2 medals is very excited about rowing. She asked if there are
any movies featuring rowing. I know of Oxford Blues, but my list stops
there.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Charlie Freed
David Clumpner
I think it is "True Lies" that opens with a nice rowing scene.
Also, "Enemy of the State" has a tiny bit - nothing spectacular, though.
Jack Ayer
John Hannah's character is a rower in "Sliding Doors."
-- Jack
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Charlie Freed wrote in message <7hafin$h...@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com>...
>My daughter is in a novice high school program and after winning her
>first 2 medals is very excited about rowing. She asked if there are
>any movies featuring rowing. I know of Oxford Blues, but my list stops
>there.
>Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>Charlie Freed
>
Well, Ben Hur comes to mind. ;-)
Deat Poets Society has an amusing 21-second rowing scene. The movie's
pretty cool on it's own anyway. Check it out.
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Anu Dudhia
> I think it is "True Lies" that opens with a nice rowing scene.
Or "True Blue", as the film is officially known.
Mike Fay
<3739336B...@atm.ox.ac.uk>...
> David Clumpner wrote:
>
> > I think it is "True Lies" that opens with a nice rowing scene.
>
> Or "True Blue", as the film is officially known.
>
I can think of two other films with rowing races in - there is an
excrutiatingly painful bit in the (awful) film 'Half a Sixpence' which I
would only recommend to someone I hated, and a far better race in Sliding
Doors (because the crews being shown were all real rowers, and the
non-rower was only shown close up in brief shots). There's a lot of other
films which have had incidental shots of rowing going on, but they normally
only last a couple of seconds at most.
chris harrison
php9...@sheffield.nojunk.ac.uk says...
> I can think of two other films with rowing races in - there is an
> excrutiatingly painful bit in the (awful) film 'Half a Sixpence' which I
> would only recommend to someone I hated, and a far better race in Sliding
> Doors (because the crews being shown were all real rowers, and the
> non-rower was only shown close up in brief shots). There's a lot of other
> films which have had incidental shots of rowing going on, but they normally
> only last a couple of seconds at most.
With the said rowers then singing Father Abraham in the Anchor, which
clinches the case for realism!
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Felipe
chris harrison <ca...@icparc.ic.ac.uk> wrote in article
<MPG.11a37b2ca...@news.cc.ic.ac.uk>...
> In article <01be9c61$048469a0$7e3c...@tem.shef.ac.uk>,
> php9...@sheffield.nojunk.ac.uk says...
> > I can think of two other films with rowing races in - there is an
[snip]
Someone really has to make a list of all rowing in movies, and post them on
the web; this topic comes up regularly ...
I saw that awful "family empowerment" movie, my least favorite genre, "The
River Wild" just to see Meryl Streep rowing a single in the opening shots
(later learned she had a body double).
There was a Nick Cage movie about rowing, which was basically an excuse to
show off Cage's abs. Come to think of it, many of Cage's early movies had
that goal. Perhaps a teenage daughter would appreciate this, though.
Forget the title. Boy in Blue?
Mike Bowman
Apparently, she underwent an intensive training program for about six
weeks so that the close up shots really featured her rowing without a
body double. The more distant shots featured a double.
As far as Will Smith in "Enemy of the State," a ltwt freind of mine at
Potomac did the body double shots - on a rowing barge no less. Any
resemblance to a real shell is computerized.
--
Mike Bowman
Giorgio
> Someone really has to make a list of all rowing in movies, and post them on
> the web; this topic comes up regularly ...
There used to be just such a list on the Alexandria Community Rowing web
page, but I tried to call it up and got a "forbidden" message
(http://www.access.digex.net/~mcmackin). Anybody know if the club still
has a page?
> There was a Nick Cage movie about rowing, which was basically an excuse to
> show off Cage's abs.
Yes, The Boy in Blue. It has a few sculling scenes that are okay, not to
mention Cage rowing on a turn-of-the-century erg...
Giorgio
Eric M. Whipkey
should done by now though. There may be a problem with the page if it is not
working yet. I will try to find out who is working on it and let them know. I
actually got onto it one day and what they had up looked pretty good, but I did
not see the movie listing anymore. I think that they are getting rid of it.
eric
Jeff
olympic trials in the US and the eventual boycott of the olympics (1980) by
the US which only hurt the atheletes. Its focus' on Tiff Wood ( who still
rows today ) and how he was incredibly talented and yet never made it.
Its got some nice rowing scenes ( since its all about rowing,,, entirely )
and it actually has olympic rowers as extras in some scenes ( Zeno Muller
swiss national ), and Derek Porter ( Canadian National ) just to name a
few ).
It was filmed in Montreal and I believe was a canadian made film so it may
be hard to get ahold of elsewhere... too bad too.
cheers
jeff
David Clumpner wrote in message ...
>
>
>I think it is "True Lies" that opens with a nice rowing scene.
>
Hispeed
Tracey Seslen
>
> I have seen that movie and it was very well done :-)
>
> Jeff wrote:
>
> > Actually, there is a movie called "Rowing Through" about the 1980 - 1984
> > olympic trials in the US and the eventual boycott of the olympics (1980) by
> > the US which only hurt the atheletes. Its focus' on Tiff Wood ( who still
> > rows today ) and how he was incredibly talented and yet never made it.
> >
> > Its got some nice rowing scenes ( since its all about rowing,,, entirely )
> > and it actually has olympic rowers as extras in some scenes ( Zeno Muller
> > swiss national ), and Derek Porter ( Canadian National ) just to name a
> > few ).
> >
> > It was filmed in Montreal and I believe was a canadian made film so it may
> > be hard to get ahold of elsewhere... too bad too.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > jeff
> >
Was this movie based on David Halberstam's "The Amateurs"? I was rowing
for Tufts out of the Harvard boathouse in the fall of 1995 when a film
crew showed up to shoot some Charles River footage. I was told that
most of the filming had taken place in Canada, and that the movie was
based on "The Amateurs". Once the film crew left, I never saw or heard
anything else about the movie, so I figured it was never released. For
some reason, it never occurred to me that it might not be an American
movie.
Tracey
Giorgio
> Was this movie based on David Halberstam's "The Amateurs"?
Yes. Apparently it was a joint Canadian/Japanese production (the
director was Japanese). There's a review (not very enthusiastic) here:
http://www.iconn.ca/zone451/issue09/25frame/2509rowt.html
Giorgio
George D. Kirschbaum
free...@ix.netcom.com (Charlie Freed) writes:
> first 2 medals is very excited about rowing. She asked if there are
> any movies featuring rowing. I know of Oxford Blues, but my list stops
> there.
> Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Adding to the list: The Exorcist III. The movie it's self was
painful to watch but there are some brief shots of rowing and fabricated
crew scenes. It was shot on the Potomac and in Georgetown and the rowers
were members of the PBC Jr. Men's sweep program coached by Charlie Butt
Jr. (not Charlie of Harvard, his dad) and myself.
There is a scene where a crew can be seen jogging up a street with
a 4+ or 4x going "hup hup hup," and then a shot of the hero-priest walking
by. What you don't see is the 1st take where the guys clocked the fence on
the left of the scence with a rigger, jarred to a halt for a split second,
and then kept going. What a hoot! They had to break filming to paint the
fence where the rigger gouged the wood. Charlie and I were standing just
behind the camera watching the whole thing.
You also don't see the scence where we rowed up the river, me in
the 3 or 4 seat yelling at the stroke to bring the rate down, and him
yelling back that we were at a 18! My sweep rowing and movie debut on the
cutting room floor. ;-)
George Kirschbaum
Coach and Cox
Yutaka Sato
Japan has two Rowing Movies.
1. "The Amateurs"
Released in 1996. Directed by Masato Harada (Japanese).
Colin Ferguson rows a scull.
Of course it is based on the famous Davit Halberstam's "The Amateurs".
2. "Give it all"
Released in 1998. Directed by Itsumichi Isomura (Japanese).
DVD and Video with english subscriptions will be available in this summer.
A story of Japanese highschool girls who establish a club and go into the
races.
Based on a novel "Gambatte Ikimasshoi" wrote by Yoshiko Shikimura.
Please visit following site.
http://home.bell1.matsuyama.ehime.jp/wnn-c/c/ganba/index.html
English page is also available.
http://home.bell1.matsuyama.ehime.jp/wnn-c/c/ganba/eng/index.htm
Begining of 1999 season, every club in highschool and univesity has
remarkable number of newcomers who watch the movie and attempt to row!
Y.Sato ( sha...@ss.iij4u.or.jp )
dasingle
Another movie with rowing is the Bond movie "Goldeneye" where they are
rowing in the first seen where they show the tigerhawk helicopter.
Pat
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