Chariots of Fire

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy run through 1981's Olympic track drama Chariots of Fire! They learn why this is Joe Biden's favorite film, ask if this thoroughly British story was at all jazzed up for American audiences, and compare the arcs of individual sports like running to the team sports they've covered so far. Plus: How composer Vangelis fought to get his iconic theme in the film. This is the fourth episode of our Underdogs series; next week’s film is A League Of Their Own! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 1981 and...
0:03.2	Jada!
0:05.0	Jada!
0:07.0	Jada!
0:10.0	The movie...
0:11.0	Cherry It's a Fire.
0:30.0	Hello everybody and welcome to Unsould.
0:34.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:35.0	And I am Paul Sheer in this podcast where we are looking for the hundred best films of all time.
0:40.0	Right now you are joining us in the middle of our underdog mini-series where we are looking at films about true life sports stories.
0:49.0	All of these happened to what degree can be argued.
0:53.0	But Amy what an interesting collection of films we've been doing.
0:57.0	I mean we have really run the gamut in this series more than any other...
1:01.0	I think batch of films we've ever done on the show.
1:05.0	Wow is run the gamut upon on the movie we're about to do?
1:08.0	Well look I was trying to keep everything to running metaphors today so yes you called me out early.
1:14.0	But you know let's just get you to finish line and make sure that we just stay on track.
1:20.0	I was like in all of our past mini-series we have been kind of doing a low key thing where we've like looked for a previous AFI movie that got kicked off the 1997 list to include.
1:32.0	We didn't do that but I'm just shocked that Jerry Sapphire actually wasn't on the AFI list and got kicked off doesn't it seem like the perfect I was on the AFI list and then now I'm not moving.
1:41.0	One million percent I am I am flabbergasted that this is not on the AFI list but wasn't on and kicked off the AFI list.
1:50.0	By the way I guess the reason for that is because it's not an American film right this is like the...
1:55.0	Yeah I mean this is the first non-American movie since Oliver to win the best picture Oscar so it's that weird thing where it is embraced but it's not fully an American film and I think we are always wrestling with this.
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