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| Cheers to at least one actor who can actually pitch! |
We reviewed 1989's Major League and voted that it Lives Up!
A fun challenge with sports films is making it look like the actors have experience playing. Sure, you can send all of the actors to boot camp... but it doesn't make up for years of elite training. Major League had the luck of casting Charlie Sheen who could actually pitch an 88mph fastball, and Dennis Haysbert who really hit that home run in the final scene (Haysbert was so excited that he forgot to put down the bat while running the bases!).
For the rest of the cast, the filmmakers used filming tricks to make it look like they were professional athletes. Wesley Snipes plays the fastest runner on the team... but is not actually fast in real life. The filmmakers shot all of his running scenes in slow motion and added epic music. It worked! He looks wicked fast in all of those montages.
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| He's not great at baseball, but he's about to teach us all that white men can't jump. |
Pitching requires a very specific series of movements, and it's easy for the casual baseball fan to spot when someone's doing it wrong. Chelcie Ross had experience playing baseball in high school, but injured himself during the bootcamp for the film. Filmmakers used tighter shots so the audience can't quite see his full pitching motion.
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| Can Jesus Christ hit your curveball? |
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