Yesterday I was watching this movie "Seabiscuit". This was highly recommended by Chetan. I had long back decided that I will not watch any movie highly recommended by him and will watch all the movies rebuked by him. This decision comes through my vast experience of knowing him since past 8 years and having a steep learning curve at that.
However I decided to make a Type-I error (for the statistics disinclined, a Type-I error is taking a risk even when you have a gut feel that the your assumption is going to be false). The movie indeed turned out to be pretty cool. I have always loved watching sports movies. Well, I don't intend to write a critique on this movie now because I am not getting paid for doing that. But the movie genuinely invoked some emotions. There are parallel stories initially but the characters meet at crossroads due to this horse called as Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit becomes the centre of all their lives.
The initially lazy and good-for-nothing horse is transformed into a wonderful race horse beating all the previous track records. Seabiscuit is much smaller in size compared to the other racehorses, even unattractive because of the wobbly kneed gracelessness. Tobey Maguire (Red or Johnny Pollard), who is the jockey, has also a life quite similar to that of Seabiscuit.
Though Tobey gets deliberately orphaned in his childhood, with good intentions of his parents for his future, he sort of gets too much messed up. Despite having a gift of riding horses with lightning speed and all that, he becomes like Seabiscuit until he meets Seabiscuit. Thanks to Chris Cooper, who believes in giving second, third, fourth...chances, both Seabiscuit & Tobey make a deadly combination giving the competitors a run for their money.
Basically I was thinking of Tobey Maguire's image as Spider man while watching this movie. Spidey looks good to me until he takes off this mask. I don't like sentimentality in a character straight out of the comic book which is so much about bravado. But Tobey really looks like a jockey and talks and acts like one while playing Red Pollard. What I was thinking was that there are certain types of movies made for some people who make it look really well. Looking from a different perspective, everybody can make a movie look good provided it is made for him or her.
Its good to give chance to Chetan sometimes...(be it second, third, fourth, etc). Plus I also understood the importance of Type-I error in statistics.
However I decided to make a Type-I error (for the statistics disinclined, a Type-I error is taking a risk even when you have a gut feel that the your assumption is going to be false). The movie indeed turned out to be pretty cool. I have always loved watching sports movies. Well, I don't intend to write a critique on this movie now because I am not getting paid for doing that. But the movie genuinely invoked some emotions. There are parallel stories initially but the characters meet at crossroads due to this horse called as Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit becomes the centre of all their lives.
The initially lazy and good-for-nothing horse is transformed into a wonderful race horse beating all the previous track records. Seabiscuit is much smaller in size compared to the other racehorses, even unattractive because of the wobbly kneed gracelessness. Tobey Maguire (Red or Johnny Pollard), who is the jockey, has also a life quite similar to that of Seabiscuit.
Though Tobey gets deliberately orphaned in his childhood, with good intentions of his parents for his future, he sort of gets too much messed up. Despite having a gift of riding horses with lightning speed and all that, he becomes like Seabiscuit until he meets Seabiscuit. Thanks to Chris Cooper, who believes in giving second, third, fourth...chances, both Seabiscuit & Tobey make a deadly combination giving the competitors a run for their money.
Basically I was thinking of Tobey Maguire's image as Spider man while watching this movie. Spidey looks good to me until he takes off this mask. I don't like sentimentality in a character straight out of the comic book which is so much about bravado. But Tobey really looks like a jockey and talks and acts like one while playing Red Pollard. What I was thinking was that there are certain types of movies made for some people who make it look really well. Looking from a different perspective, everybody can make a movie look good provided it is made for him or her.
Its good to give chance to Chetan sometimes...(be it second, third, fourth, etc). Plus I also understood the importance of Type-I error in statistics.
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