opening credits Miracle on Ice

I do not own the rights to this movie

[@robbi6801]

I was not alive that time, but these 3 minutes seem to give a perfect overview of this era. still one of the best openings of any movie!

[@jasoncyr3295]

One of the best beginnings of a movie. Shows how the U.S. isn't the country we used to be and shows how we are not the best anymore until miracle happened and revived us. When college kids with little experience destroy soviet grown men who are trained just to play hockey for the rest of there life who only demand victory is amazing. They won because they learned to respect and win for the name on the front, not the name on the back.

[@coll912]

If only a certain Soccer player could do the same...

[@bradwhitsitt241]

It's kinda funny how Canada beat the Soviets 8 years before this lol

[@Enrahb]

We were so beat down at this point. People forgot to love the country. “Crisis of Confidence” was spot-on. When I was a little kid, before I learned about this, I couldn’t understand what was so important about the Olympics, or this particular year’s. Once I learned I understood. When this movie came out, long after I understood, this opening sent chills up my spine. It still does to this day. So few movies based on real events to justice to the event. This is still my favorite.

[@bpeezy2254]

@@bradwhitsitt241 Canadian professionals (stars from the NHL and WHA) beat the Soviets over an 8 game series in 1972. While some of these American players went on to play in the NHL, when this game was played in 1980 they were merely college kids. Less than a year earlier in 1979, this Soviet team beat the NHL All-Stars 6-0. Less than 2 weeks before this game, these two teams played an exhibition at Madison Square Garden and the Soviets won 10-3. For these and many other reasons, this remains the greatest upset in major sports history.

[@bpeezy2254]

@@bradwhitsitt241 You're right, the cream usually rises to the top in a series as opposed to a one-off. The '72 Summit Series was the first "best on best" competition between the Soviets and the West and the Canadians winning was definitely an accomplishment. Herb Brooks said himself that if these Soviet and American teams played each other 10 times, the Soviets might win 9. But that's part of the beauty and mystique of this game - there was only one chance to pull off the upset. The 1977-1980 Soviet team was arguably the best hockey team ever assembled and most had been playing together for the better part of a decade. The American team had been playing together for a little over 6 months. Most of them either never made the NHL or had short, unremarkable careers. They were simply not the same class of team. The Patriots beating anyone in a Super Bowl does not really count as an upset for me (they were actually favored in that game over the Falcons) and the 2016 Cubs had one of the highest payrolls in baseball. These are professionals playing professionals. I think a closer allegory in recent memory would be Iceland advancing to the knockout rounds in Euro 2016. I believe when they beat England, there were more registered professional players in England than there were people in all of Iceland. That said, Paul Henderson!

[@dnasty312]

I get chills everytime 😢

[@MegaThurstonator]

What this intro shows us is how the American citizens have realized that most people have woken up from the American Dream and those people have taken it hard. With the early 70s being the peak of the Postwar Period (The Anti-War protest of the Vietnam War, The U.S. Invasion of Cambodia, and the Women's Liberation protests), that was where a lot of people stopped believing in the government (Dick Nixon's involvement in the Watergate Scandal, the Soviets displaying their arsenal at their 100th mayday parade, NASA's Apollo program shutting down, and Gerald Ford's methods for beating inflation), both the people and the economy turned on each other (Niagara Falls chemical leakage, the Three-Mile Island nuclear meltdown, and the 1974 oil crisis), and America started turning to commerce and consumerism to get by (Speculation on what the silicon chip would do for the future, Saturday Night Live, Disco nights on the dance floor, America's Bicentennial Celebration, the Magnavox Odyssey, and the Billy Beer). The biggest foreshadowing towards the dark times the main characters (And the U.S.) were facing was the Olympic basketball game between Team USA and Team USSR. While there were some dark moments from the opening montage such as Elvis Presley dying in Tennessee, the Kent State University shooting, the Vietnam War, the gas rates overwhelming gas stations all over the country, and even the overall Cold War, the darkest was the aforementioned basketball game between USA and USSR. That part of the opening intro goes to show that the movie isn't just about one of the greatest hockey games of all time, or even just the huge political power struggle that both aforementioned countries had dealt with for 45 years, but about a moment in that piece of history where America had truly felt like it did before we the people had let the American Dream and the Postwar Period get to our heads.

[@burkewareaglerolltide5762]

Run for president dude

[@MegaThurstonator]

@@burkewareaglerolltide5762 I actually plan on becoming a film director. Besides, the last time we had a celebrity as a president was not too long ago and we all know how that turned out. I can give amazing speeches while taking great pride in my country and not have a government related career at the same time.

[@johnnygooch8361]

Coming from a Canadian, this gives me goosebumps

[@joewhitehead3]

America was never perfect. But it’s always right there on the verge of greatness

[@petermacdonough9077]

One of my favorite openings in Disney movies!!! :)

[@johnv2232]

Great intro of US history in the 1970s! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸USA! 💪

[@MaroKnight1701]

FINALLY a decent video of this opening scene. Thank u! Great vid!

[@Weebs82589]

Very hard times for the USA: Kent State University shooting, Vietnam War, Watergate Scandal, Three Mile Island, Long lines at the gas stations, Assorted interest rates at the bank and the worst thing was the hostage crisis in Iran!

[@bpeezy2254]

@@bizzy24100 Completely agree. The trajectory of the US completely turned around in the early 1980s as compared to the mid to late 1970s. The American collegians re-affirmed to the nation at large what is possible with teamwork, devotion, discipline, and determination.

[@rocko9206]

I agree, historically that was a dark time. But people act like the last 40 years has been so great. In instances it was. But even now, 2022 there may be peace for the most part. A country who is trillions and debt and will continue to be until the day they hit the coffin. House prices so astronomically out of reach 35 years of age is the minimum age you can afford a house assuming you’ve worked all that time. People trying to becomes more educated just to be saddled with tens of thousands of debt for a piece of paper that is becoming more obsolete by the day. Which about only 30% of adults in the US have at least some college to bachelors degree. Costs of living sky rocketing, the wealthy evidently light years away and well off than almost everyone. So I ask you and for thought what is different today than then? We have peace for the most part yes? But what about everything else? Not even a smidge and that was 40 some odd years ago the next 40 one can only hope we all get by

[@tylerhudson1670]

Timeless on opening credits miracle 2004

[@pensnut08]

This opening scene: We are there all over again... PeanutBoy Carter is a very happy man right now...

[@chrisfinch8637]

This movie did make this intro seem rather too busy, with both the cast and crew names, and the historical events surrounding the 70s and such, but in the end, they all shaped America and the world to be what it was, before the 80s came around. I know I wasn't around in the 70s, but I know America was still in a great deal of peril, when it came to politics, finances, wars, scandals, and even certain crimes that came through.

[@dchang11]

I remember seeing the opening at the cinema. Initially, I thought it was a hockey movie like the Mighty Ducks. Little did I know the story meant a lot to Americans.

[@alanconnelly3921]

They could make one about today nightmare of our country

[@carolgambill]

Seems quite the similarity with the credits introduction of the movie to what is going on today. The same ouraboras, never-ending to that proverbial snake eating it’s tail and societal mishaps and chaos.

[@nickcardone2206]

As a kid who played in CANAM tournaments up in Lake Placid, this is the Bible to us. You’ll find basically no one who went up who doesn’t basically know every line in the movie

[@-8l-924]

same. amen.

[@thischannelisnowdefunct1825]

Wait this was a Disney movie?

[@pensnut08]

Disney, 17 yrs later, would NEVER make this movie, would NEVER have this opening... 17 yrs later... 41 yrs after this and most of the people under 40 would be rooting for the Russians..

[@seanharrison6719]

No doubt. Its sad and I doubt many people are going to realize the significance of this event and its build-up.

[@nathanrieben2925]

Whoa, is that President Biden at 2:28 seconds when he was a senator for Delaware? The nose is sure right.

[@ohhellyeah2878]

Yeah, I thought his nasty mug looked familiar.

[@siflex]

That's California Governor Jerry Brown introducing even/odd gas rationing in May 1979.

[@nathanrieben2925]

@@siflex Thank you for the answer! I looked at some pictures of both Biden and Brown as young men and they almost look like brothers. I can see you are correct though.

[@siflex]

@@nathanrieben2925 Biden was my first thought too until I looked at the context. Quite similar appearance.

[@jakecrowther7701]

Only living 40 minutes from 3 mile island and they mention it is actually crazy

[@dnasty312]

I'm even closer to Love Canal

[@ForceMaximus84]

Great sequence, but it looks a lot better in widescreen.

[@numbuh1507]

A Disney movie referencing nudism of all things. And that was before Zootopia.

[@sherylalisbo9042]

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[@tylerhudson1670]

1972 USA 50 Vs USSR 51 Munich Germany Olympics 2024 USA 98 France 87 Paris France Olympic

[@crazedmartinez]

Wasn't it dream on?

[@Zer0Skateboard]

That was the ending credits

[@frances7871]

lillian sunhine :)

[@ppapin4245]

It took us 40 years to recover from Carter… and Biden has set us back to 1979 in seven months….

[@joewhitehead3]

How do you mean?

[@MegaThurstonator]

And a year ago, Trump brought us back to the Watergate Scandal.

[@rtp2464]

not a recovery, like saying cocaine is a good nights sleep, QE and debt monetization.