NBC did a piece during their Torino Olympic coverage and there are many similarities... both are outside the lines, push the limits types of downhill skiing rebels. Both won it all, are equally arrogant and opinionated. This movie has been underrated from the IMDB users - it was quite good, considering its limited budget and it used some unique (at the time) camerawork that cannot be overlooked.
Ted in Gilbert, AZ
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Due to this movie Sundance was created.This movie showed that a low budget and a low grossing can still be a great movie!!!!! This movie is Redford at his best.
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The major difference being that Chappellet was a relative unknown and Bode was in many people's eyes the favorite.
"He sent the rain."
"Who sent the fire?"
They shot on multiple European locations as well as in Colorado. How low could the budget have been?
Health reform passed. Is your grandmother dead yet?
It's in the past. Not sure when it changed, but location shooting was cheap if you could get the principals to go along with it and not bring an entourage, and Europe was all about auteur-driven film so there was lots of good, cheap production crew to be had.
Read some of the history on this one. It was originally pitched as a Big Hollywood Movie so this was the /relatively/ cheap second try, being filmed in Europe, with a European crew, on location instead of all building sets and renting studio space.
Forget Bode Miller. Dave Chappellet and BILL JOHNSON. Downhill gold medal winner in Sarajevo 1984. Brash, cocky and a winner.
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