Foxcatcher Screenplay by Max Frye and Dan Futterman is the Winner of Best Director at The 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Bennett Miller, where it was nominated for The Palme d'Or, it was also nominated for five Academy Awards, including for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role -Steve Carell, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Mark Ruffalo, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, indeed, it is a wondrous motion picture – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube page, where my macaws are the attraction

 

Foxcatcher Screenplay by Max Frye and Dan Futterman is the Winner of Best Director at The 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Bennett Miller, where it was nominated for The Palme d'Or, it was also nominated for  five Academy Awards, including for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role -Steve Carell, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Mark Ruffalo, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, indeed, it is a wondrous motion picture – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube page, where my macaws are the attraction

 


9 out of 10

 

I have seen and enjoyed Foxcatcher https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/note-on-foxcatcher.html at least a couple of times, I have already posted a video note, where you get to see my macaws, if you are curious – they are present in more than ninety percent of the YouTube material, they must be in this one as well…or at least I think they are

 

This is relevant story of power, wealth and madness – which is what we see on display in the news in this age, I will come back to that, therefore this must serve as a spoiler alert – Steve Carell is ‘medicine’ as John du Pont (of the famous multinational) a wealthy man, with serious mother issues, the mother is Vanessa Redgrave

Channing Tatum plays Mark Schultz, Olympic and World champion, while Mark Ruffalo is ‘adjectival’ as David Schultz – this is taken out of the spectacular The Booker Prize Winner The True History of The Kelly Gang by Peter Carey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/true-history-of-kelly-gang-by-peter.html where adjectival is used for astounding

 

Mark Schultz is called to meet with heir to a Sardanapalus fortune, John du Pont, he is taken with a helicopter and offered great training conditions, twenty thousand dollars per year I think it was, but back when this was maybe as valuable as 100k of today’s money, and he is convinced to stay and be part of Foxcatcher

The tycoon wants to play the ‘inspiring coach, mentor’ and offers the assistant’s job to the brother, David, who refuses to move to the du Pont hacienda – I am just playing with this now, it was not really a ranch – and he will recall how they kept moving as children, when their father was gone, and he had to take care of Mark

 

As usual with the under signed, when I write about evil, I mention the fella who is the paradigm for monstrosity, Orange Woland, and let me put in https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/vernon-god-little-by-dbc-pierre.html Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, Booker Prize Winner, a hilarious novel with a creative definition of

Paradigm shift…John Du Pont gives cocaine to his ‘protégé’, and nearly destroys his life – let me shut up about other things – instead of supporting him to get better, he nearly kills his dreams, the man is crazy – again, look at the pompous ass in the White House – although he convinces David Schultz to move with his family at Foxcatcher

 

There are signs of decline: the boasting, pretentiousness, claims for medals he did not win – maybe it sounds familiar – and then he takes this revolver in the training hall and shoots with it: he shows off in front of his mother and in general, until the final breakdown  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html

 

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