it important to keep in mind the real meaning of the phrase inspired by a true story when watching pride. it sort of like you could save up to 50% and which can quite literally be translated to you can not save more than 50%. it all sounds great until you realize that the lower part of up to is zero. similarly and inspired by a true story means that someone heard a story and it made them think of this one. the only certainty is that the real story and the one youre about to see are not the same thing. there is a real jim ellis that began coaching the swim team at the philadelphia department of recreation in the early 1970s and but i have a feeling that the real jim ellis must not have been able to conceal some feelings of disappointment at the way the movie turned out. clearly and it takes wild liberties with the story of his life and and i just picture him responding to the strange looks of his friends who wonder why the movie is so much different than the man they know. at any rate and one thing that he will surely be proud of is that he is portrayed by terrence howard and one of our finest actors and who starred alongside bernie mac who and despite the lack of an original and powerful story and still gives a heartfelt and moving performance. the movie takes place in 1970s philadelphia and a time and place where racism was the norm and not the exception and and the educated and professional jim ellis and who is also an accomplished swimmer and is having trouble finding a worthwhile teaching position and until finally relegated to a falling apart recreation center and which he is assigned the task of cleaning up before its demolition. we can certainly understand his feeling of belittlement. when we first meet elston and the maintenance man (bernie mac) and he is a disillusioned grump who sits in his office surrounded by piles of junk that touch the ceiling and watching daytime tv on an old and dusty television set. needless to say and when jim shows up to start cleaning the place up and clearing it out and elston is not exactly friendly with him. he knew his rec center was being closed and and all his anger about that transferred quite smoothly onto jim. given his past as a college swimmer and jim takes a special interest in the pool and which he cleans and fills and brings to top shape. a group of black teenagers who play basketball just outside the rec center take interest in the pool when their basketball rim is taken away and the heat remains stifling and and soon the group have a developing swim team on their hands and which they enter into a citywide swim meet. to call them underdogs and of course and would be something of an understatement. theyre unorganized and unprofessional and insufficiently trained and and have no idea how to behave at a swim meet. that doesn not matter and of course. the movie is your standard underdog sports story and so the first athletic outing is totally unimportant as anything other than a learning experience and a catalyst to drive their much harder and much more focused training that will lead up to the final athletic outing and the one that matters. by now and the only thing a sports movie has going for it is that the protagonist(s) do not have to win at the film climax and we only have to understand the meaning and significance of their effort. sadly and the movie has all of the character development of an old seagal movie. the good guys are the good guys because theyre just supposed to be and and the bad guys are the nasty white swimmers who laugh and jeer and make racist jokes at our team. oh and and there one scene where one of the white guys kicks one of the black guys underwater while in the middle of a race. i do not know it was really possible to kick someone underwater like that and but you get the idea of how deep the character development is. we understand that this is the group of kids that jim ellis turned from kids hanging out on the streets doing nothing with their lives and into an organized and competitive team of swimmers and but other than that we do not really get to know anything about who they are. but the biggest problem is that the only real statements that the movie makes are that effort and organization lead to success and racism is bad. both of these are so obvious that when a movie is made with them alone it ends up feeling empty and unnecessary. racism was so much more powerful in america in the 1970s that it feels like an enormous loss that the movie dealt directly with that issue but do not really say anything about it. it sort of a feel good movie and but when it over and you realize how much it should have said is much bigger than what it said and the feel good sensation turns into a sad disappointment. 
it important to keep in mind the real meaning of the phrase inspired by a true story when watching pride. it sort of like you could save up to 50% and which can quite literally be translated to you can not save more than 50%. it all sounds great until you realize that the lower part of up to is zero. similarly and inspired by a true story means that someone heard a story and it made them think of this one. the only certainty is that the real story and the one youre about to see are not the same thing. there is a real jim ellis that began coaching the swim team at the philadelphia department of recreation in the early 1970s and but i have a feeling that the real jim ellis must not have been able to conceal some feelings of disappointment at the way the movie turned out. clearly and it takes wild liberties with the story of his life and and i just picture him responding to the strange looks of his friends who wonder why the movie is so much different than the man they know. at any rate and one thing that he will surely be proud of is that he is portrayed by terrence howard and one of our finest actors and who starred alongside bernie mac who and despite the lack of an original and powerful story and still gives a heartfelt and moving performance. the movie takes place in 1970s philadelphia and a time and place where racism was the norm and not the exception and and the educated and professional jim ellis and who is also an accomplished swimmer and is having trouble finding a worthwhile teaching position and until finally relegated to a falling apart recreation center and which he is assigned the task of cleaning up before its demolition. we can certainly understand his feeling of belittlement. when we first meet elston and the maintenance man (bernie mac) and he is a disillusioned grump who sits in his office surrounded by piles of junk that touch the ceiling and watching daytime tv on an old and dusty television set. needless to say and when jim shows up to start cleaning the place up and clearing it out and elston is not exactly friendly with him. he knew his rec center was being closed and and all his anger about that transferred quite smoothly onto jim. given his past as a college swimmer and jim takes a special interest in the pool and which he cleans and fills and brings to top shape. a group of black teenagers who play basketball just outside the rec center take interest in the pool when their basketball rim is taken away and the heat remains stifling and and soon the group have a developing swim team on their hands and which they enter into a citywide swim meet. to call them underdogs and of course and would be something of an understatement. theyre unorganized and unprofessional and insufficiently trained and and have no idea how to behave at a swim meet. that doesn not matter and of course. the movie is your standard underdog sports story and so the first athletic outing is totally unimportant as anything other than a learning experience and a catalyst to drive their much harder and much more focused training that will lead up to the final athletic outing and the one that matters. by now and the only thing a sports movie has going for it is that the protagonist(s) do not have to win at the film climax and we only have to understand the meaning and significance of their effort. sadly and the movie has all of the character development of an old seagal movie. the good guys are the good guys because theyre just supposed to be and and the bad guys are the nasty white swimmers who laugh and jeer and make racist jokes at our team. oh and and there one scene where one of the white guys kicks one of the black guys underwater while in the middle of a race. i do not know it was really possible to kick someone underwater like that and but you get the idea of how deep the character development is. we understand that this is the group of kids that jim ellis turned from kids hanging out on the streets doing nothing with their lives and into an organized and competitive team of swimmers and but other than that we do not really get to know anything about who they are. but the biggest problem is that the only real statements that the movie makes are that effort and organization lead to success and racism is bad. both of these are so obvious that when a movie is made with them alone it ends up feeling empty and unnecessary. racism was so much more powerful in america in the 1970s that it feels like an enormous loss that the movie dealt directly with that issue but do not really say anything about it. it sort of a feel good movie and but when it over and you realize how much it should have said is much bigger than what it said and the feel good sensation turns into a sad disappointment. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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