#257 John McEnroe - In the Realm of Perfection
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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John McEnroe - In the Realm of Perfection
The Not Old Better Show, Movies for Adults
This is US OPEN finals weekend, and I'm loving it all. You've got the new Arthur Ashe biography out, on the heels of the 50th anniversary of Ashe's becoming first African-American man to win the U.S. Open, the Borg McEnroe movie, about McEnroe's life, and the new documentary, In the Realm of Perfection, about, of course, John McEnroe.
The Not Old Better Show audience will recall "Superbrat" the one time World's #1 player, whose brash, explosive on court emotionality was so intense that we have "you cannot be serious" etched into all tennis minds!
The new film, a documentary, again, "In the Realm of Perfection," by French filmmaker Gil de Kermadec, is wonderful, in a kind of meditative way. Slow motion, 17 cameras, all angles, plus some great McEnroe rants all tie together to show how truly great a player McEnroe was. McEnroe's movements are like nothing else you'll see, and you get the sense that McEnroe used his tennis skills and tennis smarts to control the game in an unusual, never seen before manner.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Night on Better Show, I'm Paul Vocal Zang and this is episode number 257. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:14.0 | It was the one inside. |
| 0:15.0 | The ball, the chalk came up on. |
| 0:18.0 | No, it was a bit of a spread, Mr. Macau. |
| 0:20.0 | That was good luck. |
| 0:22.0 | Excuse me? |
| 0:23.0 | That was really scared. |
| 0:25.0 | You can't be serious, man. |
| 0:27.0 | You cannot be serious! |
| 0:29.0 | That ball was on the line. |
| 0:31.0 | Chalk flew up. |
| 0:34.0 | This is U.S. Open Finals weekend and I'm loving it all. |
| 0:39.0 | You got the new Arthur Ash biography out, we just did a review of that. This is on the heels of the 50th anniversary of |
| 0:47.0 | ashes becoming the first African American man to win the US Open. You got the Borg Mac and Row movie about Mac and |
| 0:55.2 | and you've got the new documentary in the realm of perfection about of course |
| 1:01.8 | John MacEnroe. |
| 1:05.0 | The not old better show audience will recall Superbrand, |
| 1:11.0 | the one-time world's number one player whose brash explosive on-court |
| 1:17.2 | emotionality was so intense that we have, you cannot be serious, etched into all tennis minds. The new film, a documentary again in the realm of perfection by French filmmaker Jill |
| 1:35.0 | de Carmadette is wonderful in a kind of meditative way |
| 1:39.0 | slow motion 17 cameras all angles plus some great Maconro rants all tied together to show |
| 1:48.9 | how truly great a player Maconro was. Maconro's movements are like nothing else you'll see. |
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