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- Chariots of Fire (1981) Plot. Showing all 3 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Synopsis (1) Summaries. Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a.
- It was 'Chariots of Fire' of course. I never had any obvious opportunity to watch the film, I would have had to go out of my way. Over the years the only things I knew about it was: dudes on a beach running, music that had been memed to the ends of the space-time continuum, and a reputation for being good.
Chariots of Fire (1981)
UK Certificate: U
US Certificate: PG
Intended audience: Adults
Despite the fact that I think Raiders of the Lost Ark deserved to win Best Picture at the 1981 Oscars, I still have a tremendous love for the film that beat it: Chariots of Fire. A perennial favourite amongst Christians, Chariots of Fire remains a stirring, inspirational piece of work over thirty-five years since its original release. Familiarity, parody and the theme tune by Vangelis becoming embedded in the popular consciousness have not dimmed its considerable power.
Based on the true stories of 1924 Olympic athletes Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Eric Liddell (Ian Charleston), the film explores the motives and character of each man. Strict Scottish Presbyterian Liddell runs for the glory of God, whereas Abrahams runs against institutional anti-Semitism. One sequence of Abraham's training features Gilbert and Sullivan's For he is an Englishman from HMS Pinafore on the soundtrack, to amusingly ironic effect. Liddell by contrast anguishes over whether or not he should run on a Sunday.
The leads are excellent, and the supporting turns by the likes Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud and Ian Holm equally so. Director Hugh Hudson's memorable use of slow-motion has since become cliché, but it works very well here. The finely observed screenplay also has an agreeably, anti-authoritarian edge to it, which cleverly counterpoints the sentimentality. Pot shots are taken at everyone from snobby, casually anti-Semitic Cambridge porters and professors to the Prince of Wales. Pamper casino no deposit bonus codes 2016. At one point, there is an understated but powerful condemnation of the age of Enlightenment, when one of the Olympic Committee berates the godless attitudes that ultimately led to the First World War.
Ian Charleston's terrific performance really sells moments where Liddell delivers sermons in the rain, or expresses how he doesn't want children growing up thinking God is a spoilsport, which makes his principled stand all the more believable. Such angst ridden Presbyterianism should not be misconstrued as merely a legalistic refusal to run on Sunday, but a desire to honour God even above one's ambition; a lesson sadly unheeded by many Christians (let alone non-Christians) today. The upshot of Liddell's inward struggle packs an unashamedly sentimental wallop, and remains intensely moving, never failing to bring a tear to my eye.
In short, Chariots of Fire is worth revisiting again and again, even if I think Raiders of the Lost Ark Wild pixies slot machine online. deserved that Best Picture Oscar more.
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Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Genesis 32:1
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2 Kings 2:11
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
2 Kings 6:20
When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, 'O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.' Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered they were in Samaria.
Psalm 68:17
The chariots of God are tens of thousands--thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
Psalm 104:4
He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.
Daniel 10:7
Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.
Zechariah 6:1
And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains--mountains of bronze.
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
prayed
Psalm 91:15
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
James 5:16-18
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open his eyes
2 Kings 6:18-20
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha…
Psalm 119:18
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Isaiah 42:7
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
full of horses
2 Kings 2:11
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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Psalm 34:7
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Psalm 68:17
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
