Biopic sur une célébrité

Greetings, I’m Jana Murphy and I’m the president of the school movie club and I had the opportunity to assist to the making of this year’s new movie, Run For Us, which is a movie directed by James Cameron where he desired to explore the life of Katherine Switzer, an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. In the year 1967 she became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor. The idea of this movie was to talk about what lead her to make this sort of rebellion.

I’m not new in this field, movies are my entire life and I try to be as productive as possible, in order to discover quality content, because I know how much to please the audience is important to film makers, such as making themselves proud and all those who worked with them. If I’m being honest, this movie is my favorite out of all the one’s he’s made, and I think it’s the greatest one. The accuracy was the entire base of his movie, you know, Cameron wanted to be as honest as possible because we all know how much of a controversial subject biopics can be. The first step of making the most truth and faithful representation of someone, is to be very careful of the person you chose to embody the principal character. The decision of who was going to portray Katherine Switzer was made by the film's producers and casting directors. It seemed to them that Rachel McAdams stood out, as she firstly was similar physically to Switzer and had many experiences and seemed like a talented actress. A fun story actually when Rachel McAdams got the role for the leading actress, she had no idea who Katherine Switzer was before going as she said, "down a Wikipedia rabbit hole”.  

This movie had to deal with all the important things that changed that day ; gender barriers were huge and unbelievable. At the time, women were not officially allowed to participate in the Boston Marathon. The event was considered a men's-only race, and many people held the belief that women were not physically capable of running long distances like a marathon. Switzer's participation challenged these deeply ingrained gender stereotypes. Moreover, it was an iconic moment: The photograph of the race official trying to physically remove Switzer from the race became an iconic image and symbolized the struggle for gender equality in sports. This moment brought attention to the unfair treatment of women in sports and led to changing the rules.

Rachel McAdams faced many challenges and duties to be as perfect as possible, I’m certain of it. I saw her change and she was so concerned about everything she did, she wanted to capture the subtle and dramatic aspect of Switzer’s life and dedication to the sport she cherished the most. In James Cameron’s movie, all he wanted was to be as open as possible, and he knew that Katherine Switzer had an extremely unfair experience with sexism, so Rachel McAdams had to be able to do justice to that and not disrespect her feelings and experiences throughout the whole movie. She had to seize the understated elements of the lunacy and the crazy events that took place, so her acting performance really had to stand out and show the talented runner’s true colors. Moreover, for five months, Rachel Mcadams spent four hours a day, five days a week, learning to properly run and watched documentaries, and I saw how much intensity there was behind rachel’s eyes, and it showed how much she wanted to be flawless. Her dedication was unbelievable, she also watched many interviews which were recreated in the movie.  

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