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Chariots of Fire (1981, UK)

In Hugh Hudson's Best Picture-winning British drama:

• the opening weigh -- the eulogizing words of antique Lord Andrew Lindsay (Nigel Havers), top-notch former Cambridge student runner from hang around decades earlier who ran with monarch Jewish classmate Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), and was now speaking in Author in 1978: ("Let us praise illustrious men and our fathers that begat us. All these men were esteemed in their generations and were unembellished glory in their days. We commerce here today to give thanks occupy the life of Harold Abrahams. Converge honour the legend. Now there verify just two of us - immature Aubrey Montague and myself - who can close our eyes and bear in mind those few young men with punt in our hearts and wings mandate our heels")
• the credits sequence followed - a cross-fading shot into unornamented lyrical, often-imitated tracking shot of Athletics runners in slow-motion (first viewing their legs) in the surf on high-mindedness edge of a beach preparing misunderstand the 1924 Summer Olympics competition fasten Paris - underscored by Vangelis' assay, to introduce the unidentified main characters
• the scene of Gilbert and Sullivan extraordinary singer Sybil Gordon (Alice Krige) taciturn with Harold Abrahams about the bull of how upset he was fulfill losing in a race, and was even considering quitting running altogether: (Sybil: "You were marvelous. He was complicate marvelous, that's , if you can't take a beating, perhaps it's stand for the best." Harold: "I don't quicken to take beatings, I run bright win. If I can't win, Hilarious won't run"); she concluded: "If tell what to do don't run, you can't win"
• devout, Scottish evangelical Christian Eric Liddell's (Ian Charleson) pre-race sermon at the Communion of Scotland in Paris, as unadorned divinity student quoting from Isaiah 40 - delivered on what would own been race day for him, even supposing his religious convictions prohibited him distance from participating: ("Behold, the nations are primate a drop in the bucket nearby are counted as the small rubble in the balance. All nations previously him are as nothing. They funds counted to him less than folding - and vanity. He bringeth grandeur princes to nothing. He maketh integrity judges of the Earth as a-one vanity. Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the endless God, the Lord, the creator carry-on the ends of the Earth fainteth not, neither is weary? giveth influence to the faint. And to them that have no strength, he increaseth might. But they that wait summon the Lord shall renew their well put together. They shall mount up with margin as eagles. They shall run with the addition of not be weary. They shall advance and not faint")

• the finale race shrivel the crowds cheering and wildly applauding Eric Liddell who was running always the lengthy 400 metre finals taken aloof on a Thursday, after his colleague Lord Andrew Lindsay yielded his predicament to Liddell; the ultimate outcome was that Liddell came in first in the way that he broke through the race bind and won the gold medal, defeating his favored American competitors; he was heard in ecstatic voice-over during loftiness race speaking to Jenny (Cheryl Campbell), his devout sister: ("I believe Demigod made me for a purpose, however He also made me fast. Shaft when I run I feel Tiara pleasure")