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生活会偶有奇迹，但更多的是脚踏实地的收获。

如果让我拍一部运动题材电影，我会勾勒两种结果，让观众自己去选择。

就本片来说，故事背景本就容易调动情绪，但只是拍了部中规中矩的电影，倒是主演马修·麦康纳饰演了个较为出风头的角色。

还是那句话，这类影片最精彩和感人的地方是片尾原型人物影像的再现，如此影片在中国几乎没有，所以那些值得歌颂、致敬和学习的体育精神无法向后人传承

We Are Marshall，据说是真实事件改编的。

好像若干年前曼联也曾经遭遇过同样的不幸，飞机失事使整整一支球队全部丧生，这种打击完全是毁灭性的，曼联用了好些年的时间才恢复元气。

（资料：1958年2月6日，曼联队乘坐的飞机在慕尼黑机场遭遇暴风雪失事，飞机上绝大部分人员遇难，其中包括曼联队的8名球员、3名俱乐部官员。

这次空难惨剧埋葬了一代曼联足球精英，这也成为曼联历史上最为惨痛的一页）

热情有干劲儿的一群人，创造的奇迹！

面对亲人逝去，悲痛是必然，但如何接受，走出来，替逝去的人活下去，变得有意义。

当We are Marshal，响彻时，那是发自内心的归属感。

所以，让我重新认识运动的意义，不只是胜负，强身健体，是荣誉感归属感共同的记忆和信念，一代一代，血肉相连。

孩子参加过这样的集体运动，一起流汗摔打过，要比多做几套试卷，价值深远⛵️

标题那句话不是我说的，而是美国电视台（忘了是cbs还是fox）一个影评节目的嘉宾说的。

就凭这句话，我这两天到处找这片子。

正当我准备放弃寻找之际，在一个小店的浩瀚D版碟里，我找到了这片子。

第二天清早起来，做的第一件事就是看这片子。

尽管剧情我早就大概知道，但还是被那些俗套的剧情所打动。

原来，只要是真挚的情感，平凡的故事也会放出光芒。

在Marshall球队经历如此重创之后，仍然有勇敢的人坚持下来，为重新组建一支队伍而奔劳。

这份勇气和热情就已经让人钦佩。

Many a valiant run may fail, but the valor of it builds the soul. 这是很久之前读过的一句话，配在这段评论里真的十分合适。

在经历空难的二十多年之后，他们重登冠军宝座，坚持终于有了回报。

这个以真人真事改编的电影的确是the strongest one in 2006, 最起码也算是one of the strongest movie.很庆幸自己仍然能被他们感动。

因为这让我知道，我还有梦想的勇气。

Finally got to see We are Marshall here in Huntington, WV, the very town this movie has as its setting. I like it a lot, but It is very difficult to see it as being just a movie, because the movies is so much about the town, the university, and even somebody you may know or meet here. You cannot maintain the distance that could be afforded to other movies when appreciating them. Yet this feeling is special. The movie is emotionally charged most of the time, as it should be, given the fact that so many people died and a team rose from ashes. It oscillates between being poignant and funny. The pain part was very well captured by Mathew Fox, who plays Red Dawson, the assistant coach, who was tormented by the fact that he happened to have missed the disaster while the rest of his team died. The other Mathew who played the head coach seemed to lack some emotional depth in the role he played. That might be natural, because the role he portrayed had had nothing to do with Marshall before accepting the role as head coach. Yet at other times, it is just Mathew the "star" coming out. That effect could be diminished if the coach is played by a less well-known guy. Or have I been way too saturated with all the coverage about Mathew the superstar that it is now impossible to scratch the actor to see the acted?Even as someone who speaks English as a foreign language, I can tell that his language is somewhat banal as some critics have pointed out. It is too “movie-like”, so to speak. However, there are also bursts of freshness. For instance, when he gets President Dedmon to visit NCAA in person by asking Dedmon how he proposed to his wife. But to be fair, Mattew did a good job showing the development of his character. Jack the head coack is actually the one transformed by the whole experience. When he makes that speech in the cemetery, one sees the transformation reach a climax. My favorite is the character of Don Dedmon. He is portrayed into a rounded, developed, and rich character. In him you see the mixture of the somewhat clumsy academic, a really hard-working leader, and a converted Herd fan. The rise of the football team seemed to have had the greatest impact on him.At the end of the movie, it is mentioned that the Young Thundering Herd lost more games in the 70s than any other football program in the nation. However, the glory comes in the 90s, when the team won championships and produced national football stars. That line has the potential of becoming something really great. But it was dismissed too quickly. There is really a good point in there: It takes time to actually make a program work. More importantly, it takes incubation, nurturing, and even patience in years and years of tireless work. Yet these are not materials for Hollywood. There is less drama in them. Instead, the movie turns to a spike of glory in those years that were not actually chracterized by winning games. The real thundering glory, I believe, is the laying of foundations in these early years in spite of pressures and losses. Hemmingway says courage is grace under pressure. So is glory.

其他的大家都说的差不多了，我就想说：美国是体育大国，体育强国，体育传统就是渗透进每个人的毛孔里了...One town, one school, one team...我们国家的那种家乡球队，子弟兵的感觉总是有点怪...也许是我让什么***球迷协会的大招牌坏了胃口吧...

继《弱点》后第二部橄榄球电影。

新教练，他的激情昂扬，让我震惊。

怎么会有这样的人，永远有劲儿，有热情，找方法，对比赛的认识超越胜负，对队伍的付出，超越职责，对孩子的爱，超越父亲。

就是活得，特洒脱，特带节奏！

powerful！

要做成事儿，就得有这股劲儿！

2022.4.22 reborning

本片讲述了一个发生在西弗吉尼亚亨廷顿小镇上的真实的故事。

小镇的橄榄球传统历史悠久，几十年来，运动员、教练员、球迷们和他们的家人们一起为马歇尔大学的球队加油助威。

在当地，橄榄球已经不仅仅是一项运动，而为马歇尔大学橄榄球队加油已经成了人们的一种生活方式。

但是1970年发生的那场事故改变了这一切。

11月14日夜晚，马歇尔大学橄榄球队的教练和队员们从北卡罗来那比赛后乘机返回亨廷顿，结果飞机失事，75人全部罹难。

这一重大损失给所有人带来的心灵上的打击都是无法弥补的。

他们引以为荣的球队瞬间就化作灰烬，这样的打击，无论对谁都是无法承受的。

特别有的家庭还在这次空难中同时失去了2名亲人妻子和儿子！

泪水已无法再承载悲痛，留给人们的将是无尽的黑暗。

幸存的4名球员也沉浸在伤痛中无法自拔，直到新教练杰克·兰格的到来。

他先是招来另外几名教练然后便开始到处招募球员。

他们一开始四处碰壁，直到全国大学生体育协会同意他们在新的赛季允许新生上场，凭着这一优越条件，他们的招生工作才得以顺利展开。

紧接着的训练，他们克服种种困难，终于使球队走上了正轨。

但是第一场比赛的失利，使得他们遭受到了来自各方面的质疑，甚至连马歇尔大学的校长也被牵连。

杰克·兰格顶住了来自各方面的压力，全力备战第一个主场。

赛前，他把队员带到死去队员的墓地前，告诉他们只用赢取胜利才能给死去的同伴们带来荣誉。

队员们在墓前高呼“We are Marshall！

”小镇居民也给予了球队最大的支持，都来观看他们的第一个主场。

年轻的队员们不负重望，获得了胜利。

这个胜利对于队员们，对于马歇尔人来说，都是沉甸甸的、意义非凡的，这代表了他们的新生和思想上的重生。

“痛苦最好的解脱是找到解决方法”。

站在场上就是成功，全身心的投入比赛，战斗到终场哨声响起，然后就是为了赢球而奋斗。

我看电影时候双眸湿湿的，感觉很棒，但我知道配乐占了最大的功劳。

这部电影就是讲述了一个“灰烬中重生”的故事，关于情节，关于演员，关于亨廷顿，南桥老师的评论里都谈及了。

毕竟，他就是住在亨廷顿的啊！

灰烬中重生，像不像凤凰的意像？

而这部电影另一个功劳，就是实事求是，灰烬中重生是一回事，而奇迹又是另一回事；世上的奇迹少之又少，影片最后的旁白说马歇尔大学橄榄球队在那一个赛季只赢过一场比赛。

现实啊！

所以我们还是要好好努力，该干嘛就干嘛去，别指望天上掉馅饼了。