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Scenes We Love: Slap Shot
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When an ill-advised remake of a film is just around the corner, it's always nice to go back to the original and revel in what makes it so damn good. Plus, it's Monday, and you need a little NSFW bloodletting. So, here is the on-ice debut of the Hanson Bros in Slap Shot. It's pretty self-explanatory, though not the best quality.
What I particularly love about this film is that everyone did their own skating (with the Hanson Bros going on to careers in the NHL and WHL). Even Paul Newman did his own skating, so that there's none of those cheesy cutaway shots that focus on feet, then on an actor's upper body, with nary the two meeting. (Something that's all over the wretched sequels -- and which will be all over a remake.) According to IMDB, the skating requirement actually kept another actor out of the film -- Al Pacino was interested in the lead role, but dropped out when asked if he could skate, because he considered the question "facetious." He regrets it to this day. Newman, on the other hand, cited the film as one of his favorites and had never had so much fun on set.
Enjoy the mayhem ... and take a moment not only regret this whole remake thing, but applaud the fact that such a raunchy, bloody comedy was scripted by a woman -- and wonder if they ever thought about hiring a woman to script the remake.
Fan Rant: For The Love of the Game -- Leave 'Slap Shot' Alone!
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We say it all the time -- "That's a film that should never be remade!" 95% of the time, its true. The latest to go through the remake treatment is the hockey classic Slap Shot -- and it's apparently been buzzed and bitched about since last summer, when Peter Steinfeld took the writing job. But now Variety announces that Dean Parisot will be directing, which means that it will take an act of God or Gordie Howe to stop this atrocity from happening.
First, it ought to be illegal to remake anything that starred Paul Newman. It's as simple as that. He's off limits from Fort Apache the Bronx to The Sting, and everything in between. Secondly, Slap Shot is just one of those perfect pieces of Americana -- one of those grungy comedies that could only be made in the 1970s. It's old time hockey as it doesn't exist anymore -- the days when helmets were "optional" and considered to be for wimps, and when the blood flowed freely, and guys really did wrap their knuckles in foil. You can't go into a hockey locker room to this day without hearing someone quote this film. Not an amateur practice goes by without at least one person sporting a Chiefs jersey. Everyone in and outside of the hockey world can quote it, everyone's got a favorite scene ... or two ... or three. It's a classic.
First, it ought to be illegal to remake anything that starred Paul Newman. It's as simple as that. He's off limits from Fort Apache the Bronx to The Sting, and everything in between. Secondly, Slap Shot is just one of those perfect pieces of Americana -- one of those grungy comedies that could only be made in the 1970s. It's old time hockey as it doesn't exist anymore -- the days when helmets were "optional" and considered to be for wimps, and when the blood flowed freely, and guys really did wrap their knuckles in foil. You can't go into a hockey locker room to this day without hearing someone quote this film. Not an amateur practice goes by without at least one person sporting a Chiefs jersey. Everyone in and outside of the hockey world can quote it, everyone's got a favorite scene ... or two ... or three. It's a classic.
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