LIFE , FOOTBALL AND ANY GIVEN SUNDAY!

A football is so self sacrificing...! Gets kicked around and wins you glory. Its funny how a lot of sports films end up being so philosophical and motivational at the same time. One film that did not motivate me though was LAGAAN. Apart from the 'chale chalo' song... LAGAAN had nothing to give you goosebumps. Ofcourse, through the film there was an amazing background score by A.R . Its olympic time and right now its nice to know that INDIA has done a lot better this time round than before ... But still... come to think of it... in INDIA we love sport and we love playing sport but why is it that we kinda take a backseat when it comes to competing professionally? I wonder.
Same applies to making sport films in INDIA. There are hardly any sports films in INDIA though we love the sport. I can think of a couple of cricket movies like LAGAAN, AWWAL NUMBER and IQBAL. OVER AND OUT. CHAK DE was the most recent of the lot ...
This is a genre of movie making ,I think where Indian filmmakers can score...
SPEAKING OF MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES...THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE. A MUST WATCH FOR ALL ASPIRING ACTORS... AL PACINO IN OLIVER STONE'S ANY GIVEN SUNDAY. REMARKABLE FILM MADE EVEN MORE REMARKABLE BECAUSE OF THIS SPEECH .. READ THIS... ACTUALLY THERE IS A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE SAME ... just search for ANY GIVEN SUNDAY ALPACINO SPEECH ...
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is - can you win or lose like a man? I don’t know what to say, really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes down to today, and either, we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play. Until we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time. Now I can't do it for ya, I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I've pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's... that's... that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losin' stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think ya going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That's a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's football guys, that's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do?

GOOSEBUMPS ANYONE??