Eddie the Eagle - Anything is possible

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Movie
German title Eddie the Eagle - Anything is possible
Original title Eddie the Eagle
Country of production United Kingdom ,
United States ,
Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Dexter Fletcher
script Sean Macaulay ,
Simon Kelton
production Adam Bohling ,
Rupert Maconick ,
David Reid ,
Valerie Van Galder ,
Matthew Vaughn
music Matthew Margeson
camera George Richmond
cut Martin Walsh
occupation

Eddie the Eagle - Everything is possible (original title: Eddie the Eagle ) is a British - US American - German sports - biopic about the British ski jumper Michael Edwards from the year 2016 . Directed by Dexter Fletcher and written by Sean Macaulay and Simon Kelton . The film had its world premiere on January 26, 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival . The comedy hit cinemas in the United States on February 26, 2016 and in Germany on March 31, 2016.

action

Little boy Michael Edwards - just called "Eddie" by his parents - has the big dream of going to the Olympic Games . His mother smiles at him for this, but doesn't stop him from leaving the house early in the morning to wait for the bus at the bus stop, but instead gives him an empty cookie jar for the medals he wants to win. There his father collects him and tries to talk him out of his plan. Eddie wears a splint on his left knee for medical reasons , which makes sporting activities impossible for him. A few years later, his knee recovered and he no longer needs to use the walking aid. He then tries different Olympic disciplines . He assembled the necessary devices himself provisionally. Among other things, he tries to practice pole vaults with a large wooden bar in the alley behind the house , exercises weightlifting with paint buckets and wants to start a career as a javelin thrower . His glasses break constantly during his attempts and he collects the fragments in the cookie jar. When Eddie throws in a window with his spear next to his father, it becomes too colorful for him. He washes his son's head and denies him any sporting talent. The father takes Eddie to his job as a plasterer so that he can learn a decent job. However, there is a summer ski slope next to the construction site . When Eddie sees this, he realizes: His destiny is not in the Summer Olympics . Instead, he now puts it into his head to take part in the Winter Games .

In fact, Eddie shows talent in skiing . He wins some youth competitions and collects trophies. He even made it into the sponsorship group of the British Olympic Selection Committee. During the presentation of the group of athletes to potential sponsors, Eddie stumbles, causing the other skiers to fall. The chairman of the committee, Dustin Target, then takes him aside and makes it clear that Eddie will never be selected for the roster for the Winter Olympics. Then he wants to hang up his skis . When he tore the posters of the Winter Games from the wall in his room, the image of a ski jump caught his eye. With that his idea of becoming a ski jumper was born . He finds out that the UK doesn't have a ski jumping team and sees this as his big opportunity. Despite his parents' objections, he travels to Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where the training camp for the world's best ski jumpers is located. The athletes there don't take him seriously and laugh at him. Since he has no money for a hotel room, he sleeps in a storage room of the café in the camp, where the landlady Petra finds him. She immediately likes the visibly nervous Eddie and lets him sleep in the room if he helps in the economy in return. Edwards makes the first attempts to jump on the 15-meter training hill. A few falls later, he met the groomer Bronson Peary, but Eddie didn't take Eddie seriously. Eddie learns from Petra that Peary himself was a talented ski jumper, who was also in the American Olympic team, but ultimately failed due to his lack of discipline and was thrown out of the team by the coach of the Olympic team. Edwards tries to get him to coach, but Peary refuses. After a bit of a fight between Peary and the trainer of the Norwegian athletes, Peary teaches Eddie some basics about ski jumping. Fully motivated, Eddie then made his first fall-free landing from the practice hill and immediately dared to climb the 40-meter hill. When he lands cleanly there too, he visits Bronson Peary and tries one more time to convince him of the coaching job, because he absolutely wants to master the 70 meter hill, which corresponds to the Olympic standard. There, however, he had a serious fall and woke up in the hospital. Peary visits him and realizes that he can't talk him out of his plan anyway. He wants to prevent Edwards from falling again and killing him and promises to teach him how to land. Eddie actually manages to master the hill and takes part in a senior jump, since a valid attempt from the 70-meter hill in a competition is an entry requirement for participation in the Olympic Games. Its width of 34 meters is actually sufficient.

However, Dustin Target of the Olympic Committee has raised the qualifying norm to 61 meters in hopes that Eddie will never make that distance. So he wants to prevent that he could take part in the Olympic Games and make British winter sports ridiculous. In order to still be able to go to the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary , he took part in a competition in Oberstdorf . In practice he actually reaches 61 meters, and although the actual competition jump is invalid, it is enough for his participation in the Olympic Games. Bronson Peary realizes that Eddie is indeed a talented and ambitious jumper and wants to train him for the Winter Games. Since Edwards is not even looking to actually fight for the medal ranks, the two fall out because Peary does not want to understand that Eddie does not want to be one of the top athletes.

The other athletes on the team make fun of him. After they trick him into drinking alcohol on an excuse, Eddie overslept the opening ceremony. Despite the adverse circumstances, he doesn't let himself be beaten down and jumps from the 70 meter hill. He is knocked off last. Since its width of 60.5 meters still means the British Olympic record, he is incredibly happy about the jump. In front of the cameras, he waves his arms like an eagle . The public is infected by this zeal and celebrates it, the press gives it the nickname "Eddie the Eagle".

He is still not taken seriously in the team. Dustin Target ensures that Eddie is not even allowed to attend the British athletes' dinner. After talking to Bronson Peary on the phone and being told that you don't celebrate his achievements, but only his sympathetic demeanor, Eddie decides to also take part in the competition on the 90-meter hill, which is the supreme discipline of ski jumping. Peary realizes that Eddie actually embodies the Olympic spirit ( "Being there is everything!" ) And travels to Calgary to train him further.

On the way to the hill, Eddie received encouragement from gold medalist Matti Nykänen . Nykänen is the best jumper in the world, but is dissatisfied with his performance. He teaches Edwards that it's not about being the best, but always doing your best. Eddie creates a new personal best with 71.5 meters and again the British Olympic record. Former Peary trainer Warren Sharp visits Peary and Edwards in the dressing room and makes up with his former top talent.

At the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, Eddie is celebrated frenetically. When he arrives at the airport in England, he has a huge crowd of fans and his parents, and Eddie's father explains how proud he is of his son.

background

Hugh Jackman and actress Deborra-Lee Furness at the premiere of the film in Australia

The film production is loosely based on the story of Michael Edwards , the first British ski jumper at the Winter Olympics . He started at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and was last in two competitions, but developed into a crowd favorite.

The film was produced by Marv Films , Saville Productions, Studio Babelsberg and TSG Entertainment. 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate UK are responsible for the rental.

The shooting took place from March 6th to May 3rd, 2015 mainly in the Bavarian Oberstdorf , Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Seefeld in Tyrol . Further recordings were made in the studios of the film studios Pinewood Studios in London and Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam .

The Babelsberg studio, which is responsible for the filming in Germany and acting as a co-producer, organized around 500 extras for the filming in Bavaria .

The film celebrated its world premiere on January 26, 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on February 26, 2016 and in German cinemas on March 31, 2016.

reception

From the German Film and Media Review was Eddie the Eagle - Everything is possible with the predicate of value provided. The reason stated: “The film propagates the common performance ethic: always give your best, regardless of whether you win. Ultimately, it is not the victory that counts, but only the will with which you face the competition. The entire script is subordinate to this statement of the 'Olympic Idea', which satisfactorily meets all expectations. "

Michael Edwards himself said that his portrayal by Taron Egerton was "incredibly similar" to him, but only "about five percent" of what is shown in the film corresponds to historical reality.

Others

  • One historical inaccuracy of the film is that the jumpers jump in the V-style , although it didn't spread to Calgary until the 1989/90 season. Until then, it was important to keep the skis parallel.
  • The scenes for the Olympic ski jumping competitions in Calgary were filmed in the ski jumping stadium on Schattenberg in Oberstdorf.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Eddie the Eagle - Anything is possible . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Potsdam's latest news: "Film projects in Potsdam - Babelsberg lets Eddie Eagle fly" www.pnn.de from February 9, 2014, accessed January 30, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung: “Eddie the Eagle, a co-production with Studio Babelsberg - extras for film with Hugh Jackman wanted” www.maz-online.de from February 7, 2015, accessed January 30, 2016
  4. ^ Eddie the Eagle "& Hugh Jackman land in Seefeld. In: presse.tirol.at. April 8, 2013, accessed on January 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Eddie the Eagle - Anything is possible. Jury reasons: Predicate particularly valuable In: German film and media evaluation . Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  6. ^ Actor 'uncanny' as Eddie the Eagle . In: BBC News . December 16, 2015 ( bbc.com [accessed April 8, 2018]).