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By Claire Alongi, Swimming World College Intern.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Name a movie about football. Okay, now baseball. Basketball? Try boxing. Track. Now swimming. Got anything for that last one? Vulture\u2019s<\/a> list of the <\/span>Best Sports Movie of All Time<\/span><\/i> features over a dozen different sports, yet not one is a swimming movie. While the sports movie genre has been a staple of Hollywood for almost as long as the industry has been cranking out media, swimming has yet to make much of an impression. Let\u2019s try to figure out why.<\/span><\/p>\n

Defining the Sports Movie<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Danny Karnik<\/p><\/div>\n

Ingredients for a sports movie: take a couple of well-known actors, mix with underdog narrative, include a swelling and inspiring musical score, add at least one scene where it looks like everything will fall apart, then cook and sprinkle the ending where either a) the team comes out victorious against the odds or b) loses but learns that at the end of the day, there\u2019s a lot more to life than winning. Of course there are films that fall outside of this formula, but it is almost comical how many movies <\/span>do<\/span><\/i> fit the tried and true trope extravaganza that has buoyed the sports movie genre for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following an underdog or inspirational<\/a> narrative is a particular through-line in many sports movies. <\/span>It\u2019s likely because most people like to watch others overcome the odds. It provides a kind of comfort. As romantic comedies are a cheesy reassurance to the presence of true love, so are sports movies a reminder of the power of the literal and metaphorical strength of individuals and teams. But if that\u2019s the case, why there are barely any swimming movies?<\/span><\/p>\n

Unpacking <\/b>Pride <\/i><\/b>(Among Others)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Pixabay.com<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s not that there are <\/span>zero<\/span><\/i> movies about swimming, though the pickings are slim. It\u2019s just that most people haven\u2019t heard of the few options that are floating around out there. A prime example is the Pride (2007)<\/em>. <\/span>The Amazon blurb for <\/span>Pride<\/span><\/i> describes it as, \u201c[based on the ] the inspiring [true] story of Jim Ellis, a charismatic school teacher who changed lives forever when he founded an African-American swim team in one of Philadelphia’s roughest neighborhoods.\u201d Terrance Howard<\/strong> plays Ellis, while Bernie Mac<\/strong> stars as janitor and co-coach Elston. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So on paper, it seems like this film should have been a smash. It has the stars, it has the story of triumph against the odds. So what happened? The Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 consensus of the films states, \u201c<\/span>Pride<\/span><\/i> features a typically stellar performance from Terrence Howard, but ultimately falls victim to its over-usage of sports movie cliches.\u201d The critics\u2019 score rests at 45 percent while the audience score is much higher at 72 percent. A great number of the critic reviews on the site do indeed remark upon the cliches in <\/span>Pride<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

But <\/span>Pride\u2019s<\/span><\/i> fall is likely a little more complex than just it\u2019s reliance on tropes. For one, <\/span>Pride<\/span><\/i> is not any more predictable than the number of sports movies before it. Perhaps it just came at a time when people were finally getting tired of the same story getting peddled over and over again. Though that seems fairly unlikely, another reason could be that it features almost an entirely black cast and takes a decent stab at the blatant racism festering in 1960s and 70s in Philadelphia. In recent years Hollywood has received more backlash for it’s white-washing and lack of diversity, but there is a still a long way<\/em> to go when it comes to representation. So even when movies like Pride<\/em> got made, they might have been more or less swept under the rug. In Pride’s<\/em> case, it could have been compounded by the fact that swimming is typically a very white sport, though as years pass that is beginning to change as well (click here for USA Swimming’s diversity and inclusion mission<\/a> statement).
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It made about seven million dollars in the United States. It\u2019s not readily available how much the movie was made for, but it\u2019s probably safe to assume it barely broke even. Since <\/span>Pride<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> there have been a few swimming documentaries like <\/span>Touch the Wall<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Swim Team.<\/span><\/i> They were received much better critically but have still largely flown under the radar. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why Swimming Isn\u2019t Making a Splash<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Photo Courtesy: Thomas Campbell\/Texas A&M Athletics<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s hard to pinpoint exactly why swimming hasn\u2019t broken through in the sports movie genre. \u00a0One Rotten Tomatoes reviewer remarked that part of the reason <\/span>Pride<\/span><\/i> didn\u2019t work was that, \u201c<\/span>Maybe because it focused on swimming and didn’t really capture the drama of the sport. It came off like a TV movie.\u201d Perhaps this reviewer has a point. Unlike a lot of other sports, there\u2019s something about the actual sport of swimming that\u2019s hard to translate to the screen. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No zoomed in facial close-ups that show the narrowing eyes in the moment of determination. In fact, no facial expressions at all save for the gasp of breath and the finish. Of course swimming is televised, but there\u2019s a difference between televising a sport and framing it for the drama of a movie. Swimming is structured much differently than other sports. It\u2019s closest comparison is track and field, which takes place on land and makes it easier to capture. <\/span><\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s just that the sport isn\u2019t as popular. Aside from the Olympics, most people who aren’t directly involved in the sport likely don\u2019t follow swimming. And at the end of the day, Hollywood is a machine run by money. It\u2019s safer to bank on something they know will sell as opposed to more of a wildcard. As it stands, <\/span>Pride<\/span><\/i> is an outlier surrounded by a smattering of documentaries. Given the drought of swimming movies, some writers and directors will need to take a risk to bring a truly successful swimming movie to the silver screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were to write a blockbuster swimming movie, how would you do it? Leave us your ideas in the comments!<\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span>All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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