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这部片子STAR MOVIE或者HBO播了好几个来回了。前两天才定心坐下来看，激动处眼含热泪。很想再从头看一遍呢。不明白这么好的片子为什么不引进国内市场。

既然又是说管理，就从那个二流橄榄球教练开始说起。没看开头，不知道这家伙怎么请来的，估计是硕果仅存的候补球员（那个让人落泪的小黑）跟校长争取后，唯一来应聘的人选。

教练首要的任务是重新组队：校长争取了大一学生可以参加橄榄球比赛的政策，在篮球、足球等体育项目中寻找合适的队员人选；说服幸存的原助理教练出山，请教资深同行，好不容易拼凑了教练人员和教学材料。

这个承担着巨大伤痛和使命的新队伍，还不团结。新人不能理解老队员的内心，老家伙也不负责任地给新人太多的压力。教练一直在试图弥合大家的创伤，让新人更多地知道他们继承的原来那支球队是多么地骄傲。深情的墓园誓师讲话让所有人振奋。We Are ，Marshall！

至于球队的目标，教练接受了严酷的现实，他没有提出不切实际的前几名的想法。只有两点：1、全体教练、队员全力拼搏，展现Marshall的精神，给学校，给小镇的居民，给所有关心Marshall的人信心，给他们心理安慰；2、尽情享受橄榄球运动的乐趣，在战斗中成长。经过漫长的一个又一个赛季，Marshall终于从一个蹒跚学步，随时可能被击垮的弱旅成长为一支让人敬畏的队伍。技能、信心，荣誉和勇气在传递和延续过程中不断地增长。

总之，受命于危难之间，仓皇组建团队，管理和激励团队成员，达成切实可行的团队目标，这个二流教练的表现是个一流的经理。

标题那句话不是我说的，而是美国电视台（忘了是cbs还是fox）一个影评节目的嘉宾说的。就凭这句话，我这两天到处找这片子。正当我准备放弃寻找之际，在一个小店的浩瀚D版碟里，我找到了这片子。第二天清早起来，做的第一件事就是看这片子。尽管剧情我早就大概知道，但还是被那些俗套的剧情所打动。原来，只要是真挚的情感，平凡的故事也会放出光芒。在Marshall球队经历如此重创之后，仍然有勇敢的人坚持下来，为重新组建一支队伍而奔劳。这份勇气和热情就已经让人钦佩。Many a valiant run may fail, but the valor of it builds the soul. 这是很久之前读过的一句话，配在这段评论里真的十分合适。在经历空难的二十多年之后，他们重登冠军宝座，坚持终于有了回报。这个以真人真事改编的电影的确是the strongest one in 2006, 最起码也算是one of the strongest movie.很庆幸自己仍然能被他们感动。因为这让我知道，我还有梦想的勇气。

Finally got to see We are Marshall here in Huntington, WV, the very town this movie has as its setting. I like it a lot, but It is very difficult to see it as being just a movie, because the movies is so much about the town, the university, and even somebody you may know or meet here. You cannot maintain the distance that could be afforded to other movies when appreciating them. Yet this feeling is special.

The movie is emotionally charged most of the time, as it should be, given the fact that so many people died and a team rose from ashes. It oscillates between being poignant and funny. The pain part was very well captured by Mathew Fox, who plays Red Dawson, the assistant coach, who was tormented by the fact that he happened to have missed the disaster while the rest of his team died.

The other Mathew who played the head coach seemed to lack some emotional depth in the role he played. That might be natural, because the role he portrayed had had nothing to do with Marshall before accepting the role as head coach. Yet at other times, it is just Mathew the "star" coming out. That effect could be diminished if the coach is played by a less well-known guy. Or have I been way too saturated with all the coverage about Mathew the superstar that it is now impossible to scratch the actor to see the acted?

Even as someone who speaks English as a foreign language, I can tell that his language is somewhat banal as some critics have pointed out. It is too “movie-like”, so to speak. However, there are also bursts of freshness. For instance, when he gets President Dedmon to visit NCAA in person by asking Dedmon how he proposed to his wife.

But to be fair, Mattew did a good job showing the development of his character. Jack the head coack is actually the one transformed by the whole experience. When he makes that speech in the cemetery, one sees the transformation reach a climax.

My favorite is the character of Don Dedmon. He is portrayed into a rounded, developed, and rich character. In him you see the mixture of the somewhat clumsy academic, a really hard-working leader, and a converted Herd fan. The rise of the football team seemed to have had the greatest impact on him.

At the end of the movie, it is mentioned that the Young Thundering Herd lost more games in the 70s than any other football program in the nation. However, the glory comes in the 90s, when the team won championships and produced national football stars. That line has the potential of becoming something really great. But it was dismissed too quickly. There is really a good point in there: It takes time to actually make a program work. More importantly, it takes incubation, nurturing, and even patience in years and years of tireless work. Yet these are not materials for Hollywood. There is less drama in them. Instead, the movie turns to a spike of glory in those years that were not actually chracterized by winning games. The real thundering glory, I believe, is the laying of foundations in these early years in spite of pressures and losses. Hemmingway says courage is grace under pressure. So is glory.

1970年十一月14日，一架搭载了70名乘客、5名机组人员的飞机坠毁在里目的地不远的一座小山上，75人全部遇难。这70名乘客里，有36名马歇尔大学美式橄榄球校队成员，9名教练，以及20多位专门跟随球队去看比赛的小镇居民。电影从这场美国历史上与体育有关的最悲惨的人祸开始，讲述马歇尔大学的教练和学生，重建校橄榄球队的故事。

影片始终贯彻着美国文化里所推崇的自强不息的竞技精神。一座不足３万人的小镇，每个人的生活都和这所学校的橄榄球队联系到了一起。因此，一场坠机不仅对这所学校，对整座小镇，都是巨大的打击。校长决定重组校橄榄球队。经历了种种困难之后，校长的求情终于ＮＣＡＡ的同意，让马歇尔大学回到高校橄榄球联盟并让大一新生参加比赛。

随着影片的进行，这支大学橄榄球队的重要越来越凸显。尤其在并不富饶的地区，运动让很多穷人的孩子得到了平等竞争的机会。而这支球队的重建还有一个无法否定的意义：它让这座小镇在空难的打击中重生。沉寂了很长时间以后，在这支球队的第一个主场比赛日，小镇仿佛活了过来。人们结伴走在街上，朝着球场的方向，谈论着各种话题；比赛胜利，人们依然都留在球场不愿离开。尽管只是一场小小的常规赛，尽管只是一所大学的橄榄球队，这场比赛，这场胜利，人们已经期待了很久。

在看完勒布朗詹姆斯夺冠的第二天，偶然在hbo遇见了这部片子，无可逃避地将两者联系到了一起。

一年前，勒布朗詹姆斯带领的克里夫兰骑士队毫无悬念地将对手金州勇士队送上冠军宝座，捧红了库里连带库里的赞助商under armour。今年总决赛，两只球队又碰面了。勇士借着西决大逆转雷霆带来的气势，在第一场比赛里，将骑士打得落花流水。比赛过后，勇士球迷欢呼今年的冠军已经产生，骑士球迷黯然为毫无颜面的詹姆斯惋惜。毕竟这个“极具天赋”的球员曾经承诺，要带给骑士一个冠军，今年恐怕又要食言了。而没想到骑士在3-1的落后的情况下带来了这个赛季的又一个大逆转。终场还剩1秒，比赛结局已定，骑士全队从球员区冲进了赛场。本以为在下一个镜头里，詹皇会在热火拿冠军时笑得一样灿烂。

而待镜头转到詹姆斯，看到的却是他常跪不起，痛哭不止。

詹姆斯哭了，教练哭了，骑士全队都哭了。

看得懂比赛的人都看得出詹姆斯的压力。因为NBA选秀制度的改变，现行制度下，几乎不会有新人打破勒布朗詹姆斯的那好几项“全联盟最年轻记录”。刚从高中毕业进入NBA的詹姆斯也被冠以“小皇帝”的称呼。6年前，ESPN用一部75分钟的纪录片向世人宣布了詹姆斯转会迈阿密热火的决定。一个球员的决定改变了整个联盟的格局，扳着指头数，联盟历史上不会超过5个。克里夫兰的人们点燃了他的球衣，咒骂他的冷酷无情，讥讽他和他大言不惭的“my talents”。

在热火，詹姆斯和队友连续四年打进决赛拿走了两座总冠军。2014年，成长为超级巨星的詹姆斯宣布要回到克里夫兰骑士队。回到骑士的第一年，骑士在他的带领下顺理成章地进入了总决赛。有趣的是，这次人们说的是“在詹姆斯的带领下”，而不是热火时代的“在詹姆斯与队友的带领下”。少了 “队友”，骑士的确就是詹姆斯一人的球队。再加上詹姆斯本人对冠军的承诺，球迷们在詹姆斯的身上放于了巨大的期待，反对者们也在期待着看到诺言失守的一天。

好在这些压力没有压倒詹姆斯，反而让当年的“小皇帝”成长为当今真正的“詹皇”。这个冠军，詹姆斯等了两年，克里夫兰等了52年，而骑士等了一辈子。可以想象这两年里詹姆斯的生活。詹皇如果只依赖天赋，哪他一定不会成为现在的詹皇。某品牌广告也借着詹姆斯凌晨四点在克里夫兰路跑的情节，向球迷们暗示詹皇的努力。好在最后，天道酬勤。

影片里不断重复的“ohio”也如同一片梦想之地。詹姆斯的夺冠，结束了ohio人50多年来对冠军的渴望。ohio人詹姆斯似乎也用这样一座总冠军，给所有摇摆中的人们来带了更多的期待，关于勇气，关于抉择，关于承诺，关于家和亲人，关于梦想与捍卫。

“痛苦最好的解脱是找到解决方法”。

站在场上就是成功，全身心的投入比赛，战斗到终场哨声响起，然后就是为了赢球而奋斗。