How does the story end?
I had a problem recording this film, and missed the end. The tape stopped, when they started the 800 metres race at the Olympic trial. What happens after that?
Thanks.
Tory won (in a dramatic fashion), and gave her blessing to Chris for having her boyfriend. Both Tory and Chris made the team, but the announcer said they were all dressed up and got nowhere to go.
share"all dressed up and no where to go" because of the boycott of the Moscow Olympics. That was dubbed in post-production due to events in real life.
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FYI. First off the line "all dressed up and no where to go" was not dubbed in post production, it was part of the original script. Filming began in 1981 on the movie, the Moscow Summer Games were in 1980.
Also, in the movie all the characters would have known they were not going to the Olympics back in late-March when the USA made the official boycott announcement – 2 months before the Olympic Trials that were being held at the very end of the movie.
Rover888 -
Towne pitched the idea of PB in late 1978 and (quoting from Peter Biskind's book on New Hollywood "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" - the source for all this info):
"He finished the script in record time for him, racing a threatened actors strike. he couldn't postpone the film because his Olympic hopefuls had to leave for the Moscow games."
Production began in early summer 1979. Already behind schedule, they took a brief midsummer break because of that strike but resumed soon after and it was done and in the can by late fall. But the infamous post-production antics of Towne - spending months in the cutting room snorting mountains of coke (he was known as "ol' write a line, snort a line"), hiding the negative from Geffen and sending the cost (by early 81 - 2 years later) from $7 to $16million - meant that it wasn't released until 1982 when Warners agreed to take it off Geffen's hands and forwarded Towne completion costs on the understanding that they were getting his script for "Greystoke".
So, the "all dressed up" line was indeed a post-production insert.
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Also there was the scene where Tingloff is talking to Chris about doing the pentathlon while she's stretching, and at the end of the scene he says "Moscow...'80..."
Obviously if the original script was written before 1980, this scene would makes sense.
However, the scenes at the end include real-life footage of the 1980 Trials, so it's also possible the "dressed up" line was indeed added either as a script change during the production, or post production as was presented earlier.
I tend to believe it was a script change that was added during production along with the real-life footage of the trials.