Blades of glory

For one of the lectures we missed in the beginning of the semester we were asked to write a blog about a movie of our own selection, and include the five essential elements of a movie.
I chose the movie “Blades of Glory” from 2007, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, as it is one of my favourite movies from the last year, and is a movie I like to watch over and over again.

The five essential elements:
1. A believable lead character.

The two lead characters Chazz Michael Micheals and Jimmy MacElroy are two professional ice skaters, even though none of them seems very smart and are both easily distracted by emotions that more than once destroy for their career. We find them believable and likable because they are funny and both kind and harmless of nature, even though it may not seem like that in the beginning.

2. Their urgent and difficult problem: They both get shut out from all future skating, which has been both of their lives until now, and they find themselves in a depressing and disgracing situation with no job or friends.
3. Their attempt to resolve the problem, which fails and make their situation more desperate: They find a way to get back into skating again by competing in couple’s skating and starts training together. They become better friends and everything seems to go well, until their competitors, Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldernberg, previous champions in the sport, tries to destroy their friendship by setting them up with, Jimmy’s girlfriend, Katie, and makes him think she’s been cheating him with Chazz. Jimmy runs away and refuses to let Chazz contact him, and it is the day before the Olympics.

4. The crisis, their last chance to win, the anticlimax: Both Jimmy and Chazz is captured by the Van Waldernbergs so they can’t make it to the competition.
5. The successful resolution: Chazz manages to escape from Stranz Van Waldernberg, by using ice skates to get loose and races him to the competition. Jimmy also manages to find his way out, but first has to overcome his fear of bad hygiene by getting the key to his handcuffs from dirty toiletpaper from the bin. They both manage to come to the competition in time and wins.
They become friends again when Jimmy finds out that Chazz didn’t betray him with his girlfriend. Chazz who has been a lonesome wolf as he puts it himself, now admits that he has found a “brother” in Jimmy and won’t be lonely again.