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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

Nadia : The Movie

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 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
  • 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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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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