Cool Runnings

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up... it's podcast time! This week the HDYR gang is separating fact from fiction with their look back at Disney's kinda/sorta/not really "true story" of the first Jamaican bobsled team. Once you get past the fact that 95% of this was made up, however, there's still plenty to love about this movie.

Topics include: the shift from straightforward sports drama to broad comedy, why the real story of this team doesn't make for a particularly compelling film, our pitch for a revised version of this sport, whether or not Derice is an effective protagonist, a shocking fact about one of the writers that might explain a few or our issues with the script, and much much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember cool runnings?
0:06.7	Hello and welcome Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.9	I'm Chris.
0:32.6	I'm Donna.
0:33.3	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.2	And today we're revisiting Cool Runnings.
0:53.0	Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Cool Runnings. The poster for the 1993 Walt Disney film Cool Runnings features the tagline,
0:58.2	a comedy inspired by the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team.
1:03.0	Presumably because the phrase inspired by was a tactful way of admitting that they made most of this up.
1:08.8	Yes, there was a Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988
1:11.6	Winter Olympics, and yes, they crashed during their final run. That's pretty much where the
1:16.9	similarities end. These characters, their backstories, and their struggle as outsiders at this event
1:22.7	are entirely fictional. But you can forgive Disney for not being particularly interested in making a
1:28.3	movie about a team that was universally accepted by their competitors, never came close to
1:33.3	winning any medals, and crashed not because of mechanical error, but because of their inexperience.
1:38.7	No, they were only concerned with the absurdity of the premise. And yet, the tone of the film
1:43.0	wasn't always so broad. It was originally
1:45.2	intended to be a more straightforward drama. In fact, some of the key cast members signed on
1:50.1	with that understanding. But after cycling through a couple of writers and directors and then being put
1:54.9	into turnaround, the project was eventually re-envisioned as a comedy. And while that may have rubbed
1:59.9	some of the real-life participants
2:01.3	the wrong way, it's hard to argue with the film's success. At the time of its release, Cool Runnings
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