The Football Formula: Take One Hero, Add Emotion, Watch Him Overcome
di A. O. Scott The New York Times
“The Express” is an honorable example of a tried-and-true formula, squarely aimed at a presumably large cross-section of the moviegoing public: people who love football and hate racism. Like “Glory Road,” “The Great Debaters” and numerous other similar movies, it packages a real-life story of athletic triumph and social progress into an accessible, rousing melodrama that is no less potent for being almost entirely predictable.
And this is true even for viewers — the majority, I'd guess — whose knowledge of college football in the early 1960s is hazy or nonexistent. [...]
di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (3379 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 10 Ottobre 2008
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