The famous British ski jumper Michael Edwards, better known under the nickname Eddie The Eagle or Eddie the Eagle is a living legend. A slightly older generation probably still remembers his famous performance at the Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada in 1988, because of which the International Olympic Committee changed the rules to no longer have to place exotics in the Olympics (well, Venessa Mae did it anyway). Although he never really lived up to his name (his jumps were short and unreliable), he won the hearts of fans around the world with his genuine Olympic spirit and determination. The path of probably the most unusual ski jumper of all time was translated into a film by Dexter Fletcher with Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton in the central role. And another interesting thing. The film was also shot by Slovenian jumpers, who performed jumps and stunts.
The film archive is richer for the new one sports comedy, which they also co-created as jumpers and stuntmen Slovenian jumpers! It is about a British boy later known as Eddie the Eagle, who has always wanted to perform at the Olympic Games. Since childhood, he wandered from one sports discipline to another, but due to his lack of talent, he could not settle down anywhere. When he was about to throw his rifle into the corn, he ran into ski jumps and got it into your head that he would become one at all the first British, who will compete in this discipline at the Olympic Games. Everything else is history. And while Eddie was jumping, others feared for his life.
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Coincidentally, in 1988, Eddie was not the only exotic on Olympics in Calgary, because he also performed there the same year Jamaican bean, whose story has already been filmed on celluloid.
Jumping at the 1988 Calgary Olympics:
Biographical sports drama
Eddie the Eagle
(Eddie the Eagle, UK, USA, Germany, 2016)
Direction: Dexter Fletcher. They play: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Christopher Walken, Rune Temte, Tim McInnerny, Lasco Atkins, Edvin Endre, Jo Hartley.
In the cinema from April 14, 2016.
