Nadia : The Movie
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
THE NADIA MOVIE
Lies, lies, and more lies! For today's commissioned episode, we watched the 1984 made-for-TV movie Nadia, a Very Highly Extremely Unauthorized biography of Nadia Comaneci, and we seriously just can't with it. We discuss:
- Things that definitely 100% happened and aren't lies at all, like Bela Karolyi creepily discovering Nadia at recess
- The villain of this tale: Communism
- The very important *IMMEDIATE CHOREOGRAPHED FRIENDSHIP DANCE* between Nadia and Teodora
- Interrupting the judges in the middle of Tourischeva's floor routine (!)
- Anachronistic hair: A deep discussion
- Marcia Frederick's stunts are the only watchable part
- The first double pike beam dismount ever competed? Maria Filatova (USSR) 1977
- This movie did Teodora Ungureanu dirty
- Is this the only gymnastics movie where the stunt work is harder than the real routines they're portraying?
- Wait...did they turn Nellie Kim white?
- Creating the future: Did Bela reenact some of these scenes later in his career?
- Some very sensitive and thoughtful treatment of weight and suicide. Healthy and helpful. Good good.
- The moral of the story might be anorexia
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Project K: Secret Police Documents on the Karolyis
- Introduction to Project K Operation Olympia explained
- Project K Episode One:Interview with Nadia & The Secret Police Author Dr. Stejarel Olaru
- Project K Episode Two:Interview with Nadia & The Secret Police Author Dr. Stejarel Olaru
- Project K: Romanian Gymnastics Documents of Abuse, Neglect & Authority
- Project K: Decoding Romanian Secret Police Files on The Karolyis with Dr. Simona Petracovschi
- Behind The Scenes: Project K
- Behind The Scenes: More Project K (for Karolyi) Details
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:05.1 | Today, possibly the greatest example of male washing and |
| 0:10.0 | commie fierce exploitation of all time. A story so filled with bold-based lies, |
| 0:17.4 | it might as well be a mockumentary. The only reason to watch is to enjoy the mega bad |
| 0:24.2 | assness of the one and only Marsha Fredrick in the 1984 TV movie Nadia, |
| 0:31.6 | Vibella Corolley. This is episode 68 for 2021, the week of November 8th, and welcome to the |
| 0:40.0 | number one gymnastics podcast. In the galaxy, I'm Jessica Amher with Spencer from the |
| 0:44.0 | Balanced View situation, and this is a commissioned episode from a club gym nerd member. |
| 0:50.1 | Bri commissioned this episode, and club gym nerd members like her make this show possible. |
| 0:55.3 | If you'd like to become a club, your gym nerd member, check out the details at gymcastic.com, |
| 1:00.9 | join the club tab. And also remember, you can give a club membership as a gift to an important |
| 1:07.6 | or unimportant person in your life and get access to all of our back catalog of behind the scenes |
| 1:14.4 | episodes and extended interviews and sometimes exclusive interviews just for club gym nerd members. |
| 1:20.4 | It's very exciting. This episode was recorded in November 2021. We'll be back on January 6th. |
| 1:25.5 | That's a Friday for college and cocktails. Check the form at gymcastic.com for the schedule or your |
| 1:31.4 | email if you're a club gym nerd member for details in January. See then. So Spencer, can you set |
| 1:38.0 | the scene? It's 1980. I mean, I may not have the energy, but yes, I can set the scene of |
| 1:43.6 | not the other movie. Okay, so this is, if you're not familiar, it's a made for TV movie from 1984. |
| 1:51.2 | And if you haven't seen it, just the words made for TV movie from 1984 should give you a solid |
| 1:56.3 | picture of what we're watching here and what the quality level and everything that's happening. |
| 2:02.0 | So this aired just before the start of the 84 Olympics. Look at that. Very convenient. |
| 2:09.6 | Timely. Yeah, so that's what we're watching here. That's what we watched this weekend. |
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