Art of the peptalk.
Passing energy from coach to player can make for excellent over-the-top emotion in sports films.
In research for BASKETBALL WEATHER I have been researching and rewatching peptalks.
Bill Murray's MEATBALL'S peptalk undercuts the reason for peptalks in general.
Contrast that with Nick Nolte's opening speech from BLUE CHIPS.
This method performance was for the most part based on Bobby Knight, I believe. He is at least the most famous coach for using negative control tactics and fear to inspire better play. Nolte's performance is tame compared to the real thing:
I need to go back into my vhs archives to find one of my dad's peptalks I recorded in highschool and incorporated into the basketball video that year, which I titled "A Parallel Universe" for some reason? My dad had a much better approach to inspiring a team. He wasn't as apathetic as Murray (though those four words were all that was going through my head toward the end), and he didn't scream at you like Knight, though sometimes a swift look would make you feel that way. Sometimes the jacket would be thrown. But his speeches were always something we looked forward to because they really made you want to care about not just the specific game we were playing, but the GAME itself.
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