Regarding basketball, NBA is a tag that cannot be bypassed.
However, when it comes to basketball movies, "Coach Carter " and " Path of Glory " are high-scoring classics, but they are not about NBA stories.
Even NBA players filmed or participated in performances, Kyrie Irving starred in " Uncle Drew " , Michael Jordan and LeBron James starred in "Big Air". "Slam Dunk" series, the stage is not in the NBA.
As the pinnacle stage of the basketball world, there is no movie that can tell the true story of the NBA, which is really embarrassing. Why hasn't
been available?
The reason is very simple. Whether it is basketball or football, sports movies have a limited audience, and they can even be said to be niche films. Even though these sports have many fans.
Jordan The box office performance of "Space Jam" has always been a figure that is difficult to surpass for basketball movies, and James 's sequel has also failed to surpass it.
To restore the real NBA arena in the movie, it also requires a certain cost. The studio knows that it is difficult to make money from this kind of movie, so there is no reason to spend money on it.
but streaming is different.
is correct. In the end, we still have to rely on Netflix, Netflix.
Although the "Space Jam: A New Legend" in which he starred was smashed, James, who was interested in developing a sideline business in Hollywood, did not give up on movies. Otherwise, he wouldn't have left the Cleveland Cavaliers, the team that drafted him, for the second time and went to Los Angeles.
He got the opportunity to cooperate with Netflix and (as a producer) produced the " Must Win Scout " which has a very good reputation.
Rotten Tomatoes freshness and audience score are both 92%.
IMDbhtml has 27.4 points;
Metascore is 68 points;
are all good films.
scored 7.4 on Douban, which is temporarily higher than "Space Jam" .
Even though the plot is a very old-fashioned inspirational movie routine, in which a grassroots player overcomes many difficulties and finally counterattacks and enters the NBA, the top of basketball, it still has a good reputation.
What is the reason? This interesting question has a lot of room for discussion about sports movies that seem to only be inspirational.
As mentioned earlier, sports movies are considered niche movies, and their audience is far smaller than those of action movies, science fiction movies, and even romance movies.
Therefore, since there is a niche, let’s satisfy the niche first.
"Winning Scouts" is a real NBA story, targeting the NBA fan base. Then serve this group of people well first.
The online time is accurate When the NBA Finals is in full swing, many stars are invited to help out. The sense of reality is very strong and can convince the audience that the real NBA is like this.
Many fans will be as excited as Marvel fans when they see familiar stars playing together.
A very interesting point is that the plot is actually a combination of the most popular 2K series of NBA games. It is a bit of a plot of career mode combined with manager mode, except that the position of the manager has become a scout. In short, fans will be very friendly after watching it.
No matter how cliche the plot is, as long as the conflict is strong enough, the audience will not hesitate to give it more points.
The story opens with the incompatibility between the male protagonist Stanley, the scout, and the team owner's son.
Both characters are played by professional actors.
Male number one Adam Sandler and basketball are really destined. "Uncut Gems" previously starred Kevin Garnett .
Ben Foster plays the second generation of rich executives.
's performance makes you want to go up and beat him up as soon as you see it. When other people see it, they think they play basketball, and he knows how to act.
In addition, there is Robert Duvall, who plays the team owner. He is a famous Hollywood star and is the strategist Tom in the "The Godfather" series.
He is still active on the big screen and appears in new films released almost every year.
When the rich second generation took over the management of the team, Stanley naturally suffered.
First of all, the character Stanley has a very clear personal goal from the beginning. He hopes to change from a scout to a coach and spend more time with his family. This makes it easy for the audience to get involved and hope that the protagonist can achieve his personal goals.
However, the rich second generation has become a huge obstacle.
Stanley must find a good enough player to realize his wish.
Well, the plot is actually different from those old-fashioned inspirational films.
Generally, sports inspirational films take athletes as the protagonists, and use the protagonist's personal goals to drive the plot. This is true even for the very special "Million Dollar Baby" .
But "The Must-Win Scout" explores a different angle. Not only is the protagonist not an athlete, but the protagonist's goals are very ordinary and not passionate at all.
He does not want to cultivate a great athlete, but just wants to use this athlete to satisfy his other personal wishes.
But this goal seems to have changed midway.
Stanley stopped everything and wanted to bring the Bo Cruise he had found into the NBA.
The second half is a familiar inspirational movie plot.
Maybe the creator just didn’t want to be cliche, so he deliberately added an obstacle later, creating a small anti-climax.
In short, the obstacles set up by the plot are one after another. Stanley and Beau Cruise work together to overcome difficulties and achieve their goals.
With a solid script, well-developed characters, and a fan-centered plot, "The Winning Scout" won a lot of applause.
This may not be a flash in the pan for NBA movies. After all, the NBA does have too many stories to tell, and there can be a lot of biopics.
But, are sports movies necessarily only inspirational? Are there other related but different stories? Story lines similar to Stanley are not just NBA movies, but the entire sports genre is worth thinking about. Problem.
