Saturday Medusa

Is it easy to become a champion?

This week, Yana Rudkovskaya told the whole world that she and Evgeni Plushenko are raising their son in strictness - including using a “thin belt.” We won't talk about how we feel about physical punishment here - just watchthis super short video with statistics or read the "I hit my child" cards. What to do?" .

“Saturday Medusa” will be dedicated to something else. Evgeni Plushenko and Yana Rudkovskaya are raising their son as a future champion - he is already skating in shows with his father, a two-time Olympic champion. Should high performance sports be cruel to children? This is a question raised by many sports dramas - it is one of the most exciting genres in modern cinema. We decided to share the most interesting examples of the genre from recent news.

At the same time, Russian and American films about figure skating were released. Ours is “Ice,” in which Ksenia Rappoport plays with her daughter. The actor Alexander Petrov is so good there that we recently interviewed him. This film - about sports injury, overcoming and love - is not inferior to famous sports dramas filmed in the United States.

“Tonya Against Everyone” is in the category of the best films based on real events. The story of an American figure skater who was the first American woman to achieve a triple Axel in competition. Tonya Harding, however, became famous not only for this, but also for the fact that she was terribly physically and psychologically abused by her mother, and then by her husband. And it all ended in a wild crime, because of which she was forever suspended from figure skating.

Another recent film is The Big Game , the directorial debut of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, based on real events, about the poker princess Molly Bloom. She was supposed to be a skier and Olympic champion, but an injury forced her to switch to poker. As a result, like Tonya Harding, she was brought to trial. She also wrote an autobiographical novel, where she told how she organized games with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and a huge number of other stars. Oh, and of course, all her problems were due to the fact that she was trained and bullied by her dad!

A less well-known sports drama, it is also based on real events - the Disney film The Queen of Katwe . The story of a homeless girl from a poor Ugandan family who could not read or write, but learned how to play chess. And then every morning she ran seven kilometers to the church, where there were chessboards. Now she travels around the world and represents Uganda in competitions.

And the most incredible sports drama based on real events is the film “Eddie the Eagle” about an absurd young man who decided to participate in the Olympic Games at any cost. His parents gently—and not very—explained to him that he had no athletic talent. Eddie achieved his goal by trying several sports and almost breaking his neck. Thanks to the fact that no one in the UK was ski jumping, he managed to get into the competition, finish at the bottom of the table, but still win worldwide fame!

Don't hit children. They will succeed without it. Your "Medusa"