143: Harold's Conversion in Chariots of Fire (SASF LAMP Club)
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode you'll get to hear Nate sing (!) the unofficial English national anthem "Jerusalem"... but there's lots more: In England 1924, the sport of "sprinting" is in tension between faith and secularism, amateurism and the pros, and the nation versus world. Chariots of Fire is a tale of two athletes making their mark in this moment, and the SASF guys discuss this classic sports film. First thing to note is that Eric Liddell is actually not fulfilling the role of the protagonist in this story. It's Harold Abrahams's character arc that resolves -- putting Liddell in the role of "side" character. Second thing to note is that Harold's conversion is what allows his character to resolve -- although Brian brings up a rabbit who views Harold as a villain for just that reason. The guys discuss the iconic music, adaptations that aren't strictly accurate, Scipio Africanus Mussabini, what an emotionally sabotaging villain Eric Liddell's sister was and how he didn't respond to her correctly, Eric's faithfulness up to his death in a Japanese internment camp, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:04.5 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:07.6 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh, welcome to the members-only sass party time. |
| 0:13.8 | This is great, and there's only two members. |
| 0:15.8 | Two members and one of them's ill. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm here to play the sinus trombone. |
| 0:21.6 | I can't believe I'm in an enclosed space with a sick person. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm going to keep the coughing. |
| 0:27.2 | Luckily, |
| 0:27.5 | you may laugh already and then I coughed. |
| 0:29.2 | My immune system is intact. |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah, I'm like a weak in antibiotics, |
| 0:35.7 | so I'm totally not contagious anymore. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, as long as it's not a virus, Brian. |
| 0:44.8 | Okay, yeah, SAS epith episode. |
| 0:46.8 | We should just call this the coffee an episode. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, just me. |
| 0:49.5 | This is in which Brian Cole hacks a lung episode because it's going to be a fantastic episode. |
| 0:53.7 | Right, in which everyone thinks, why didn't he stay home? |
| 0:56.2 | But it's because SASF matters. |
| 0:59.3 | It matters. |
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