Downhill Racer (1969)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.0/10   

Director:

Michael Ritchie

Escritores:

Oakley Hall (novel)
James Salter (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

2 febrero 1970 (Sweden)

Género:

Drama | Deporte

Frase comercial:

How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?

Plot:

Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.

Plot Keywords:

Skiing | Downhill Racer | Ski Race | Beautiful Woman | Based On Novel

Premios:

Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Success

Reparto

Robert Redford	...	David Chappellet
Gene Hackman	...	Eugene Claire
Camilla Sparv	...	Carole Stahl
Joe Jay Jalbert	...	Tommy Erb
Tom J. Kirk	...	Stiles
Dabney Coleman	...	Mayo
Jim McMullan	...	Johnny Creech
Oren Stevens	...	Tony Kinsmith
Karl Michael Vogler	...	Machet
Rip McManus	...	Bruce Devore
Jerry Dexter	...	Ron Engel
Kenneth Kirk	...	D. K. Bryan
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Arnold Alpiger	...	Hinsch
Jack Ballard	...	Candy Vendor
Robert Brendlin	...	Announcer
Carole Carle	...	Lena
Kathleen Crowley	...	American Newspaper Woman
Harald Dietl	...	Journalist
Christian Doerman	...	Brumm
Michael Gempart	...	Hotel Receptionist
Rudi Gertsch	...	Selznick
Walter Gnilka	...	Austrian Journalist
Werner Heyking	...	Helgerson
Robin Hutton-Potts	...	Gabriel
Noam Pitlik	...	T.V. Announcer
Peter Rohr	...	Boyriven
James Sandoe	...	Spectator
Harald Schreiber	...	Oliviera
Heini Schuler	...	Meier
Alexander Stampfer	...	Skier No. 16
Walter Stroud	...	Mr. Chappellet
Ulrike von Zerboni	...	Jeanine
Eddie Waldburger	...	Haas
Marco Walli	...	Istel

También conocida como:

El descenso de la muerte (Spain) [es]

Duración:

101 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán | Francés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Finland:S | Norway:12 | Sweden:11 | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Boulder, Colorado, USA

Compañía:

Wildwood

Trivialidades:

Ten days before shooting began, Robert Redford accidentally drove a snowmobile over a cliff, tearing his tendon and requiring seven stitches in his knee.

Errores:

Continuidad: During the challenge race between Johnny and Dave (when Johnny crashes) the two skiers first have a pair of red and black skis, but the next shot farther on down the course they both have red skis.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Twilight (1998)

Success

This is not your typical sports film, which I think accounts for some of the negative reactions from viewers who expected a rah-rah, underdog-coming-from-behind-to-win tale. It's a dark and ironic story.

Essentially, the movie is a meditation on the "bitch-goddess Success." Redford plays an unlikable character: an overgrown child with no interest in any person or thing other than himself; a taciturn athlete who probably deserves to be called "inarticulate," though it's hard to say, as he clearly has no thoughts to articulate anyway. The dark irony of the film is that he *wins* ... and does so rather more because of, rather than in spite of, his failures as a human being.

As Francis Bacon wrote (400 years ago): "Young men worship the 'bitch-goddess success.' We spend most all of our life pursuing her and only a few succeed in catching her. This goddess demands exclusive worship, and thus, other life pursuits are often left, much to our regret in later life. So, too, this exclusive pursuit can leave us morally flabby."

The movie is also interesting as a reasonably-accurate depiction of the top level of ski racing as it existed in the late '60s. (Incidentally, he's not a professional -- ski racing and, more importantly, the Olympics were amateur at the time; and the event is Downhill (as in the title), not Super-G, which didn't even exist until 20 years later).