Perfect representation of an old veteran QB at the end of their career. He can still make the reads, feel the rush, and find the open man. His body however, is failing him, and he knows it. Beautiful.
@@technation9 LT's situation was much more dire. He literally almost died on the field. We've only seen that a handful of times in the last 50 years or so. Scary.
@@allengreene9954 yes! I always thought the only thing that would have improved this movie is if the fictional football league more closely resembled the real NFL. They were on the right track with the Sharks subbing for the Dolphins but IMO it would have been cool if other teams were close parallels for the real world counterparts. Like having a team called the Dallas Ranchers in silver and blue as well as the Sharks in pastel blue and orange. I’m guessing they wanted to stay away from any trademark issues but the uniforms were a bit over the top in the film.
This is such a rare blend of action an score to match the feel of what's at stake. Two old timers getting that one last shot until they're "used up", with a classic Bill Withers soul groove underpinning it. Love how Cap is like, "Young Blood (Beamen), hold my beer", as he shows him how to be the heart of a team.
Yes indeed. Kinda an old bull convo to a young boy. I hope everyone is doing something in their career, where it doesn’t matter how much dough you make, you know deep down inside you would do it for free. Trying to find that.
"Any Given Sunday" is the only football movie to feature an ensemble cast that has a majority of NFL Hall Of Fame players in acting roles than it does Academy Award winning/nominated actors and actresses in acting roles. Here's the NFL HOFs I spotted: Jim Brown, Lawrence Taylor, Terrell Owens, Y.A. Tittle, Dick Butkus, Warren Moon, and Johnny Unitas.
Plus you have a bunch of Real players From College and the Pros in the Film. Surprised Duane Davis is not in this Film. He was in the Program and Necissary Roughness. There is one dude from this movie that was in the Program and Roughness as well. Andrew Byrnarski Played Steve Lattimer in the Program, and Wyatt Beudry in Roughness. Derrick Lassic was in this movie Lots of interesting stuff from this film. Wilt Chamberlain, Irving Fryar, Joe Schmidt, Ricky Watters, Mazio Royster, Jamie Williams, Bjorn Nittmo, Bob St. Clair and Pat Toomay, along with Dick Butkus Stunt double in the Film Gus, and former WFL player Allan Graf. Lyle Alzado's ex wife,
Oh they how they used Dennis Quaid. Oliver Stone turning a million dollar veteran quarterback into a genuinely sympathetic character was dope. Reminds me of Kurt Warner's last couple of seasons. He saw the writing on the wall and the changing of the guard was imminent. Nevertheless he had his time and made a shit ton of $ doing it. You feel bad for him even though you probably shouldn't. He tapped into that sports phenomenon brilliantly. Fucking love this film.
Quaid’s character reminds me so much of Steve Young from 96-when he got the concussion on MNF in whatever year that was. And Jamie’s character reminds me of Donovan Mcnabb. Ironically, 2 quarterbacks that Terrell Owens played with.
The quaid character can be replaced by andy aging QB who gets hurt and their backup lights up the stat sheet but isn’t a leader. It’s a tale as old as time and I think stone does a phenomenal job at encompassing that in this film
My all-time favorite sports related movie.... criminally underrated. I think people weren't ready for the "cloverfield style" jumping around among other things.
Oliver Stone's "battle cam" and multidimensional perspective really captures the intensity of being there: Tom Wolf & Norman Mailer used a similar literary method in the "new journalism". Great OST too.
I love how Dallas had all kinds of crazy shit. Huge logo on the front, illuminati eye on the front and back of the helmet and the face their logo soaked the whole center for the field. Everything and were the baddest boys in the league
Hell yeah it made this clip. This is the most memorable part of the movie for me. Him making his reads with all the craziness happening around him. Doing it with so little time that he has. Then his eyes at the end of the play.....overall great scene.
The song really was a perfect selection for this scene. They used Kap Rooney for everything he had left and he gave them his all. Left it all on the field. Damn I love this movie! If you played football you appreciate it soooo much more.
The look on Rooney’s face, realizing in that second when he overthrows his receiver, that his dream has just come to a irreversible conclusion is to me heartbreaking.
I love the cinematography in this movie. You can’t see shit down there at eye level. Especially back then before helmets were cut a bit wider around the eyes.
At first they were- until they saw the full script! TOO many skeletons and too much dirty laundry being exposed about the NFL general practices at the time (still practiced in 2019??).
Because this movie was telling the truth and the NFL doesn't like that. I also wished this movie touched on the fact that refs do throw flags in favor of who the NFL wants to push.
I am that rare American male that doesn’t give a rats ass which team in which sport moves whatever ball they happen to be playing with wherever, and this movie is one of my favorites. Pachino as always, is phenomenal. James Woods and Jim Brown are the icing on the cake. This movie is so much more than a sports film. It is life and all of our hopes and dreams and sacrifices made, values inevitably at times compromised when life and its gritty realities slaps us in the face. After watching it, any introspective person should be a little more humble and a little less quick to judge our fellow humans. Most of us, under the right circumstances, are gonna give LT that cortisone. Damn right we are. Love this film.
I heard Oliver Stone is a 49ers fan which doesn’t mean the Sharks were the 49ers. There are similarities though: Owens (Owens) Coach Tony D (Mike Shanahan) Cap (Steve Young) LL (Keena Turner) Cristina P (Denise Debartolo York). I think he used other teams and players to help formulate his characters and story line
@@theman1412 I don't mean the audiences that saw it, but rather the movie critics, people liked the movie. Yes, it made money $100 Million GROSS WORLDWIDE, which if you think about it isn't that much WORLDWIDE for all of the countries it was shown in, and they had a budget of $60 Million or more because you never get the amount of the true expenditures, but that was a huge budget for a movie made during that time period, so yes they basically doubled their money.
@@normancarter5419 I love this movie as well. People that have never played don't understand how physical aggressive this game is, this is no way near over the top. this portrays Pro football and I have experienced stuff worse than this in high school and college. love this movie.
The NFL used their influence to downplay the movie as well as the ESPN series 'Playmakers'. The NFL hates when people tell the glorious, entertaining truth about Football. They'd have us believe the coaches are just wholesome leaders, the players are role models to kids and the executives care about the players.
We football game that 2k sports could definitely make money off when it comes to football movie video games like Any Given Sunday, Water Boy, The Replacements, The Longest Yard 1 and 2🎮.
Look me in my eye and tell me Cap is a better player. Cap is a better player lol no hesitation from the coach. I thought it was cool Willie being inspired by the vet during his half of play.
Not a player (at least I don't think he was an NFL player), but Barry Switzer is in the movie. He's one of the commentators @ 1:08 (left side. Oliver Stone is on the right), right before the closeup of T.O.
I can't even imagine it. Jamie Foxx was doing his thing before this movie, but this film put him directly opposed to an acting legend, and he more than held his own.
First game in the movie when MadMan had to take a dump while getting an IV at halftime...one of the other players, black guy...laughed, pointed and said their motto, " Shark football baby! Whatever It Takes!" A takeoff of my Raiders motto..."Just Win Baby!"
I love the song. I have been cut loose from my job. Just a reminder, VOTE OBAMA, HE HAS THE ANSWER, JUST GIVE THE MAN SOME TIME. I CAN HOLD , JUST HOLD ON .
