The fish that saved Pittsburgh is the original title of this amazing no less amazing and mythic film 1979. What had hitherto never heard of it? Dude, you're not fond of basketball, right? Music Basket was little more than an urban legend amongst the young who, in the early eighties, at the height of the first boom basquetbolistico in Spain, we jumped after the ball on any pitch street. Those were the days of Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, the mythical duels Lakers vs. Celtics ... and this movie was part of it all.
mythomania apart, we stand before a typical and topical sports comedy. Julius Erving, the legendary Dr. J, big star the basket during the decades of 70 and 80, plays Moses Guthrie, the worst franchise championship team. A random comment of his about his evil star, give one of the key team ball boy on the poor progress of the same: players are not astrologically compatible. The boy Moses convince you first, then the team owner to redo the same players astrologically compatible with Moses. Players must be all the zodiac sign Pisces.
said and done, then given a free transfer to the rest of the squad and, under the supervision of astrology, are called screening tests for applicants to join the team, which is have all sorts of quirky characters. The stars will decide which are the rarest of the rare, two identical twins, a crazy Indian, a deaf gamer magic, a reverend who abandons his flock in the middle of Mass to take the exams, a Muslim who always plays with his Bedouin scarf on his head, a local radio DJ, a veteran of Vietnam's crazy ... elected to the most bizarre team of the league: the Pittsburgh Pisces .
Image: Pittsburgh Pisces in the locker room, listening to the advice of the coaching staff. Special mention also the coaching staff: a trainer that is not removed at any time the cigarette from his mouth, the coach who has no idea what that is basketball, and team owner who chose because passed through there, and above all, the official astrology, Mona mondieu. The quirky characters risión provoke their adversaries by jumping onto the field for the first time ... until the ball is in motion.
Let us be clear: this is a movie made by basketball fans for fans of basketball, so most of the footage is devoted to fantasy play: mates on his back, biting passes against board dribbling style paraphernalia globetrotters ... any game classic All Stars. Pisces revolutionize the championship, and with their precious game were planted in the finals, which will face the team of Los Angeles, which represents the majority of players dropped to build the new team, which come with a spirit of revenge. And if this were not enough, more problems: the final will compete in an unusual astral conjunction, a conjunction disastrous for those born under the sign of Pisces. And the astrology of the team has gone in such a decisive moment. Can Pisces overcome such adversity and win the championship? If you must know, you have to watch the movie.
Some highlights:
The decoration of the court in which to play the final. Authentic monument to kitsch seventies.
The soundtrack, brimming with funky seventies. To highlight the number of The Sylvers at halftime of the final.
The Los Angeles team, which actually is made up of leading players from Los Angeles Lakers at the time, with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the head.
The various NBA players of the era, appearing throughout the movie make cameos.
Finally, a movie to spend time entertaining, without any pretensions. About especially if you like that basketball.
PS This article was originally written by 25 February, and fished for publication on this blog by 27 February, by a writer born on March 2. That does not say that we are not in sync with the plot of the movie.
article originally published on the site Mondofriki.com, on 25-02-2007
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