I was watching Desperate Housewives and they had a scene at Bree(Marcia Cross's)'s son high school swim meet. It was such a bad betrayal of swimming. There were no lane lines in the pool and no real timers. Plus, there were no bleachers, just chairs that you would see in a classroom. It would be nice if Hollywood got the accurate view of swimming.
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I confess...I saw it. Yuk! Good for your typical though predictable teen drama: boy meets girl with "issues", boy rejects girl with issues...which leaves us with a somewhat anti-climactic pool/drown victim scene at the end...
Anyway - it wasn't so much that the coach wasn't around when the main character worked out (you're right - it's probably unlikely); it was toward the end during the swim meet scene where you hear the announcer say, "...and the winner of the 100 free is "insert winner-guy's name" in 1 minute and 30 seconds!"
Believe me, this is not a hit on anyone who swims 100 free in that time!! It's just that I strongly suspect that most varsity boy swimmers probably are a bit faster in the 100 free.....
There are SO many films about football, basketball and auto racing...any filmmakers out there wanna step up and make a film about swimming!?
I confess...I saw it. Yuk! Good for your typical though predictable teen drama: boy meets girl with "issues", boy rejects girl with issues...which leaves us with a somewhat anti-climactic pool/drown victim scene at the end...
Anyway - it wasn't so much that the coach wasn't around when the main character worked out (you're right - it's probably unlikely); it was toward the end during the swim meet scene where you hear the announcer say, "...and the winner of the 100 free is "insert winner-guy's name" in 1 minute and 30 seconds!"
Believe me, this is not a hit on anyone who swims 100 free in that time!! It's just that I strongly suspect that most varsity boy swimmers probably are a bit faster in the 100 free.....
There are SO many films about football, basketball and auto racing...any filmmakers out there wanna step up and make a film about swimming!?
