Why no cool image of cyclists in Hollywood?
01-17-14, 10:09 AM
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Let me guess. Movie starts with the "star" riding on their own and then they get discovered by an agent. The agent gets them into the big time where they are unstoppable up until shortly before the "big race" at which point the "evil likely winner" slaps them down. Queue the "big race" where they pull off a close victory! Hurrah for the underdog!
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Because 'murica. Maybe a Dutch post-apocalypse would look different.
01-17-14, 10:12 AM
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They start out as a cycle commuter and the love interest will be the co-worker who never noticed them until they became confident and assertive after winning races!
01-17-14, 10:13 AM
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01-17-14, 10:40 AM
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Here's an idea, copy the wheelchair bound musician from American Anthem but make him a crippled-ex-racer-turned-wheelbuilder. He could develop the "yawless wheel" or some crap.
Or to streamline things, combine it with the love interest, like when Jennifer Grey develops the perfect spinnaker in Wind.
01-17-14, 11:46 AM
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01-17-14, 12:03 PM
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There is cycling or bicycles in movies but not many specifically about bicycle racing. Sports movies are a niche and stick with the mainstream formula, because the market is not proven to justify a budget much less a major release.
Just like any good film, it's not about bikes or biking. Breaking away, and all the other examples are about something else. Even the upcoming Lance Armstrong movies are not about bike racing, they are about the downfall of a tyrant.
Notable films where bike is heavily featured
-Breaking Away (closest thing to a mainstream winner that crosses the niche interest in bikes and resonates with a lot of people)
-American Flyers
-Quicksilver
-Premium Rush
-Drinking Buddies
-The Armstrong Lie
-Triplets of Belleville
-This is 40
-Blackhawk Down (just a scene where the Delta use a mountain bike, waiting to get picked up by a blackhawk. But, noticable use of a bike)
-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (famous scene all about friendship takes place having fun riding a bike)
-two Lance Armstrong movies in prepro
Just like any good film, it's not about bikes or biking. Breaking away, and all the other examples are about something else. Even the upcoming Lance Armstrong movies are not about bike racing, they are about the downfall of a tyrant.
Notable films where bike is heavily featured
-Breaking Away (closest thing to a mainstream winner that crosses the niche interest in bikes and resonates with a lot of people)
-American Flyers
-Quicksilver
-Premium Rush
-Drinking Buddies
-The Armstrong Lie
-Triplets of Belleville
-This is 40
-Blackhawk Down (just a scene where the Delta use a mountain bike, waiting to get picked up by a blackhawk. But, noticable use of a bike)
-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (famous scene all about friendship takes place having fun riding a bike)
-two Lance Armstrong movies in prepro
01-17-14, 12:11 PM
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What about TV? 
01-17-14, 12:19 PM
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01-18-14, 09:24 AM
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Unless it's Kittel or Greipel, who really wants to see a 5'8" 135lb roadie with a farmer's tan on IMAX 3D?
01-18-14, 05:10 PM
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you never saw the jessica simpson/bike messenger movie? it was awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn-QIjH3mBs
01-18-14, 08:17 PM
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Dreamrider (aka "I can't lose")
1993 film about Cross country ride after suffering leg amputation from a motorcyclr accident.
1993 film about Cross country ride after suffering leg amputation from a motorcyclr accident.
01-18-14, 10:25 PM
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01-18-14, 10:30 PM
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Pretty much this. Cycling will never be cool. I don't think I've ever seen a cyclist under 25 years old either. I'm sure they are out there, but it's mostly an older guy's sport with a few older ladies thrown in.
01-18-14, 10:58 PM
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01-18-14, 11:40 PM
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01-18-14, 11:53 PM
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The only cool cyclist ever was Lance, now he's exposed as the Pope of Doping, so he's only good for witch burnings, and what's left? Greg Lemond? Great cyclist, but too dated now, and he was always kind of dorky.
Mario Cippolini perhaps, but he's not American. Still, movie star looks, cool attitude. But too Italian.
Anyone who thinks cycling can ever be cool is complete imbecile. Which is why you're all seriously debating this here on a another skullfarked 41 thread.
Mario Cippolini perhaps, but he's not American. Still, movie star looks, cool attitude. But too Italian.
Anyone who thinks cycling can ever be cool is complete imbecile. Which is why you're all seriously debating this here on a another skullfarked 41 thread.
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Not Hollywood, but Canada: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/
The crotchety bike shop owner is GREAT!
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