Ovett vs Coe movie

[Daisy]

So if Daniel Radcliffle is going to be Coe, according an article on the front, does that mean Fiennes will play Ovett?

[Marlow]

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Early Tom Cruise would have been perfect for Coe. A younger Fiennes actually would be a good Ovett.

[GDAWG]

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So if Daniel Radcliffle is going to be Coe, according an article on the front, does that mean Fiennes will play Ovett?

Which Fiennes?

[bambam]

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How exactly is this in Current Events? Are they coming out of retirement?

[Daisy]

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So if Daniel Radcliffle is going to be Coe, according an article on the front, does that mean Fiennes will play Ovett?

Which Fiennes?

Also know as Ralph Voldemort

[BillVol]

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Trying to think back to the early '80s. Wasn't Ovett looked at as the bad guy and Coe the good guy? Maybe it was just the way I saw them. Coe had such a wholesome look about him and Ovett not quite so. They got a ton of attention back then. Seems like we had more coverage of track back then, not counting the internet.

[liuxuan]

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my dad days that ovett was more of a working class hero, while coe was more to middle class taste!

makes sense considering seb went onto become a Tory MP, not his best feature I have to say!

[JumboElliott]

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Hasn't there already been a movie about two gold medal winning British runners?

[Jack Lovelock]

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There has, and it was tremendous. Despite the excellence of the source material (Pat Butcher's "The Perfect Distance") I fear this one may not be quite as good. I just hope it doesn't play to all the class stereotypes.

On the subject of Ralph Fiennes, I think he'd be a superb Peter Coe! You heard it here first...

[Rog]

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The young Sebastian Coe looked a bit like Kenneth Williams. Pity he's not around to take the part! Maybe Sid James for Steve Ovett?

[JumboElliott]

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How about Eddie Redmayne for Ovett?

[Daisy]

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How about Eddie Redmayne for Ovett?

Or Skandar Keynes?

[Rog]

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Did anyone see the recent BBC documentary about the 80 Olympics? It featured Coe and Ovett quite prominently. Nauseating stuff - very much seen from Coe's perspective, loses the 800 but shows divine strength of character to come back and win the 1500 (cue swelling music).

I'm old enough to remember the 80 Olympics. I can see through the hype. Neither Coe nor Ovett were among the stars of those games in terms of performance. We didn't see the best of either. No amount of droning from Brendan Foster or whoever is going to convince me otherwise.

[Master Po]

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... Despite the excellence of the source material (Pat Butcher's "The Perfect Distance") I fear this one may not be quite as good. I just hope it doesn't play to all the class stereotypes.
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I share your perspective, yet want to add one comment on the "class stereotypes" problem for this movie. That is: As I remember pretty much all of the coverage I encountered around Coe & Ovett in their competitive heydays, it seems that all the class stereotypes were being played up all the time in the coverage, even then. Again, this is the coverage as I encountered it. Others' results might have varied. But that framework's long presence in this narrative does, to me at least, make the "class stereotypes" problem likely to be unavoidable in the way a film version is likely to be framed. It just seems really "written into" the story, for a long time already. Maybe I'm just trying to get my expectations in place prior to eventually experiencing the movie.

[JumboElliott]

Re: Ovett vs Coe movie

Did anyone see the recent BBC documentary about the 80 Olympics? It featured Coe and Ovett quite prominently. Nauseating stuff - very much seen from Coe's perspective, loses the 800 but shows divine strength of character to come back and win the 1500 (cue swelling music).

I'm old enough to remember the 80 Olympics. I can see through the hype. Neither Coe nor Ovett were among the stars of those games in terms of performance. We didn't see the best of either. No amount of droning from Brendan Foster or whoever is going to convince me otherwise.

Also the fact that the 1980 Olympics was a massive farce.