Cool Running Film Analysis
In the movie “ Cool Runnings”, the director mixes all different emotions with a storyline proving you can do anything that you put your mind to. The movie begins with Olympic hopeful Derice, running across Jamaica. He is doing this because he is training for the 1988 Olympic Games, and hopes to be a gold-medal winner just like his father was.. Then later on in the day, it’s race time. He’s confident he can represent Jamaica because he has been training for a long time for it. The whole country comes to watch the Olympic hopefuls compete in hope to represent the country . Derice and all the other hopefuls line up for the race, and about halfway through, one of the runners trips and also trips Derice and another contestant who surely would have
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He says that they can come up with the money through sponsors and other things. Everyone else agrees and at the end of the week they would all meet up again to see if they had raised enough. Derice goes around the island asking for donations from companies, but every single one laughs in his face. Yul, being big and strong wins money by arm wrestling competitions. Sanka on the other had had a completely different route for how he is going to earn money. He makes up a stupid funny song and sings it loud and proud, on the side of the road. The song goes “nuff people say they know they can't believe, Jamaica we have a bobsled team (repeat once) we have the one Derice, and the one Jr., Yul Brenner, and the man sanka the fastest of the fastest of jamaican sprinters, go to Olympics, fight for Jamaica (repeat everything except for that last part) the fastest of the fastest of jamaican sprinters, respect to the man Irv Blitser”. After the week was over, they didn’t have enough. Once again these guys were heartbroken because their dreams of making it to the Olympics seemed to be over. Jr walks in late with a bag full of cash from selling his car that allows them to go! Everyone is filled again with excitement, but then they realize that they can’t take this money. Then Jr says he is willing because, “if it weren’t for me, you guys would already be in the Olympics”. They finally agree after Jr pleads with them to take it and they are going to Calgary!(where the Winter Olympics were held that year). (Cool
He says that they can come up with the money through sponsors and other things. Everyone else agrees and at the end of the week they would all meet up again to see if they had raised enough. Derice goes around the island asking for donations from companies, but every single one laughs in his face. Yul, being big and strong wins money by arm wrestling competitions. Sanka on the other had had a completely different route for how he is going to earn money. He makes up a stupid funny song and sings it loud and proud, on the side of the road. The song goes “nuff people say they know they can't believe, Jamaica we have a bobsled team (repeat once) we have the one Derice, and the one Jr., Yul Brenner, and the man sanka the fastest of the fastest of jamaican sprinters, go to Olympics, fight for Jamaica (repeat everything except for that last part) the fastest of the fastest of jamaican sprinters, respect to the man Irv Blitser”. After the week was over, they didn’t have enough. Once again these guys were heartbroken because their dreams of making it to the Olympics seemed to be over. Jr walks in late with a bag full of cash from selling his car that allows them to go! Everyone is filled again with excitement, but then they realize that they can’t take this money. Then Jr says he is willing because, “if it weren’t for me, you guys would already be in the Olympics”. They finally agree after Jr pleads with them to take it and they are going to Calgary!(where the Winter Olympics were held that year). (Cool