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seekingferretDear Equinox vidder,
I can be stupidly competitive, but as a defense mechanism in recognition of that, I have learned to channel my competitiveness in stupid directions. The famous-in-my-friends-circle Madagascar Risk Game came about when I decided that rather than trying to 'win' the game, I would defend Madagascar at all costs. Friendships were fundamentally changed that night.
I've requested 4 reality TV competitions and 3 fictional sports movies, and a sports documentary.
The reality competitions:
Only Connect
Strip Search
Jeopardy
Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
My favorite reality TV shows are the ones that similarly explode the binary between win and lose. On Who Wants To Be a Superhero, Stan Lee quickly made it clear that winning the challenges was less important than winning the challenges in a moral way, like a superhero would. On Strip Search, who won the challenges rapidly became less important than the joy all the cartoonists felt about getting to spend time in a house with other weirdo cartoonists. In Only Connect, winning matters, but the challenges are so hard that even getting a tiny fraction of them correct feels like a victory. In the Jeopardy GOAT Tournament, Brad, Ken and James were more interested in teasing each other than going all out against each other, though they clearly also appreciated testing their mental limits.
I would love a vid that explores the space in between winning and losing in any of these competitions.
Re: my actual sports requests:
The Replacements
This is a goofy movie calling out for a goofy, fun vid.
Mighty Ducks (movie series)
This is a goofy movie calling out for a goofy, fun vid.
Rollerball
This is a goofy movie about deadly serious things, calling out for a vid that confronts those dissonances in James Caan's performance.
Watermarks
This is a fascinating movie about the women's swim team at Hakoah Vienna, a Jewish sports club in pre-war Austria. They built a program that had some of the best swimmers in the world, Olympic level, but when the top Jewish swimmers refused to swim at the Munich Olympics, the Austrian Swim Federation expelled them. But don't worry, they apologized eighty years later, it's all okay now! The documentary tells all the old history, and then focuses on an effort to bring all of the surviving swimmers back to Austria to swim one more time in the late '90s.
It's a wonderful story about sports and politics, married with a wonderful story about aging and remembrance. I'd love to see what you can do with it as a vidder.
I can be stupidly competitive, but as a defense mechanism in recognition of that, I have learned to channel my competitiveness in stupid directions. The famous-in-my-friends-circle Madagascar Risk Game came about when I decided that rather than trying to 'win' the game, I would defend Madagascar at all costs. Friendships were fundamentally changed that night.
I've requested 4 reality TV competitions and 3 fictional sports movies, and a sports documentary.
The reality competitions:
Only Connect
Strip Search
Jeopardy
Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
My favorite reality TV shows are the ones that similarly explode the binary between win and lose. On Who Wants To Be a Superhero, Stan Lee quickly made it clear that winning the challenges was less important than winning the challenges in a moral way, like a superhero would. On Strip Search, who won the challenges rapidly became less important than the joy all the cartoonists felt about getting to spend time in a house with other weirdo cartoonists. In Only Connect, winning matters, but the challenges are so hard that even getting a tiny fraction of them correct feels like a victory. In the Jeopardy GOAT Tournament, Brad, Ken and James were more interested in teasing each other than going all out against each other, though they clearly also appreciated testing their mental limits.
I would love a vid that explores the space in between winning and losing in any of these competitions.
Re: my actual sports requests:
The Replacements
This is a goofy movie calling out for a goofy, fun vid.
Mighty Ducks (movie series)
This is a goofy movie calling out for a goofy, fun vid.
Rollerball
This is a goofy movie about deadly serious things, calling out for a vid that confronts those dissonances in James Caan's performance.
Watermarks
This is a fascinating movie about the women's swim team at Hakoah Vienna, a Jewish sports club in pre-war Austria. They built a program that had some of the best swimmers in the world, Olympic level, but when the top Jewish swimmers refused to swim at the Munich Olympics, the Austrian Swim Federation expelled them. But don't worry, they apologized eighty years later, it's all okay now! The documentary tells all the old history, and then focuses on an effort to bring all of the surviving swimmers back to Austria to swim one more time in the late '90s.
It's a wonderful story about sports and politics, married with a wonderful story about aging and remembrance. I'd love to see what you can do with it as a vidder.