Score a win for the George Clooney-directed film \u201cThe Boys in the Boat,\u201d which premiered Christmas Day.<\/p>\n
Many in the audience I watched it with in Phoenix, Arizona, applauded at the end because the movie was so good. And I was one of them.<\/p>\n
The film scored an \u201cA\u201d CinemaScore rating<\/a>, while it got an audience score of 96 percent on the website Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. In other words, ordinary viewers thought it was great.<\/p>\n By contrast, Rotten Tomatoes\u2019 critics scored it at 57 percent.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Boys in the Boat\u201d has the same patriotic vibe as last year\u2019s top domestic box office film \u201cTop Gun: Maverick<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s about a Depression-era eight-man crew team at the University of Washington that wins a spot in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.<\/p>\n Of course, that\u2019s a few short years after Adolf Hitler<\/a> came to power. In fact, the F\u00fchrer watches in the film as the U.S. competes against Germany and other teams in the crew finals at the Games.<\/p>\n The main protagonist in \u201cThe Boys in the Boat\u201d is Joe Rance (played by Callum Turner<\/a>), who was abandoned by his father and stepmother at 14, but goes on to become a student at the University of Washington in Seattle.<\/p>\n Rance tries out for the crew team as a way to pay his tuition and get a roof over his head and food in his belly.<\/p>\n The trailer is below:<\/p>\n\n A secondary protagonist \u2014 the crew coach, Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton<\/a>) \u2014 makes all the right decisions in the story that one would want a man of character to make.<\/p>\n The love story between Rance and Joyce Simdars (Hadley Robinson<\/a>) is also sweet and adds some of the lighthearted moments<\/a> in the film.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Boys in the Boat\u201d is based on the 2013 bestselling nonfiction book<\/a> of the same name by Daniel James Brown.<\/p>\n Clooney told \u201cPBS NewsHour\u201d that he liked the story so much he tried unsuccessfully to option the movie rights for the book<\/a> years ago.<\/p>\n When the opportunity came up again, he grabbed it.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are not easy films to get made anymore, because you can\u2019t make them cheap,\u201d Clooney said of the period piece.<\/p>\n Besides building the boats, it took five months<\/a> of training just to get the actors ready for filming.<\/p>\n Further, \u201cThey\u2019re not designed to be big hits. These don\u2019t open like a Marvel film,\u201d Clooney added. \u201cSo studios don\u2019t really jump at these kind of things. So you gotta kinda con them into doing it, a little.\u201d<\/p>\n Clooney told Deadline<\/a> that a week before the movie was to begin shooting, MGM made him give his directing fee back.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were like, \u2018the budget, you haven\u2019t met the budget, so the only way you can do it is if you give your fee back,\u2019 which I did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Boys in the Boat\u201d is the story of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the meaning of true grit at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The book has been adapted into a film directed by George Clooney.@TheStephSy<\/a> spoke to Clooney and author @DJamesBrown<\/a> for more. pic.twitter.com\/vDY8jI6abT<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) December 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Asked what drew him to the story, Clooney said, \u201cI like what this says about us. We remind ourselves, when you see this, we\u2019re really good when we work together.\u201d<\/p>\n Clooney comes from the political left<\/a>, but \u201cThe Boys in the Boat\u201d is unifying.<\/p>\n With everything that\u2019s going on in the country, and around the world for that matter, Clooney and everyone involved in \u201cThe Boys in the Boat\u201d have provided what art at its best can do: Inspire the better angels of our nature.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Unexpected: Clooney Puts Out Patriotic, Unifying Film for Holidays \u2013 \u2018Boys in the Boat\u2019 a Winner<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Score a win for the George Clooney-directed film \u201cThe Boys in the Boat,\u201d which premiered Christmas Day. Many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n