{"id":15233,"date":"2003-01-29T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/29\/cool-runnings-ii\/"},"modified":"2003-01-29T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-29T17:53:00","slug":"cool-runnings-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/29\/cool-runnings-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Runnings II?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can see it now – Cool Runnings<\/i><\/a> meets Pollock<\/i><\/a> with a touch of The Miracle Worker<\/i><\/a>. That’s how I’ll pitch a movie that tells the compelling story of a Kenyan team competing in the “Olympics of snow-sculpting” in Quebec City, Canada despite never having seen snow<\/a>. I can see it now, they can score “Chariots of Fire” to the final chiseling of the snowy rhino horn, while in the background Rip Torn, playing the grizzled, down-on-his-luck snow-sculpting veteran that mentors the underdog Kenyans, laughs maniacally as the villainous Finnish team falls through the ice as a final insult to their sneering cockiness. It practically writes itself!<\/p>\n

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I can see it now – Cool Runnings meets Pollock with a touch of The Miracle Worker. That’s how I’ll pitch a movie that tells the compelling story of a Kenyan team competing in the “Olympics of snow-sculpting” in Quebec City, Canada despite never having seen snow. I can see it now, they can score … <\/p>\n

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