The Boys In The Boat Behind The Scenes

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Hey! Everyone. Watch REBEL MOON BEHIND THE SCENES HERE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnfTemmLaaaep9E

[@john13623]

I rowed varsity crew at a West Coast college in the early 60's. We used all the old fashioned stuff, wood everything. This movie was so authentic that in the intense rowing scenes all of my muscle mmory came back vividly and I rocked back and forth in the theater seat and felt chills. Thank you so much for this movie. Rowing doesn't get much attention today but it is one of the all time amateur sports. I learned lessons that have lasted me a lifetime.

[@FilMonger]

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[@marklinehan5423]

I didn't row but my youngest son did. It is a fantastic sport. The 8s are the formula 1 of rowing, and it was a really neat movie to watch

[@akaSophie92672]

Yes! Rocking back and forth on my couch, breathing along, and bawling after...powerful rowing scenes! The sport changed my life. Great movie!

[@aliciasabo6046]

Ditto. The experience is real.

[@bonniedavidson5940]

I rowed in high school and read the book while involved in the sport. It was POWERFUL to read this story while understanding everything about it. I am very glad to have rowed at a time when technology had advanced. The boats were wired and the cox had a microphone and pack and could be heard throughout the boat, and didn't just have a megaphone to their mouths. I kept thinking "can the rest of the rowers hear anything? There's just a megaphone over his mouth!"

[@rosaritamaria4414]

I absolutely loved this movie. I hope Clooney directs more like this. Well done! 👍👏🙏

[@FilMonger]

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[@chrisab1025]

One of the greatest movies I’ve seen !! I love this movie ! Watched it with friends in New Year’s Eve and was so inspired by it. Highly recommended !!

[@ariana.berry1]

i literally just went and saw it too ahah !! it was good i loved the editing

[@jaimebiton6187]

you should read the book its even better than the movie

[@FilMonger]

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[@neodasa2]

What's cool about this movie is that, while I was watching it here in NYC, my brother was watching it, at the same time, in Seattle. We planned it that way. Additionally, we both had just finished reading the book together, at the same time, just a week or two before. Hopefully Clooney will hear about that. Synchronicity is a wonderful thing.

[@FilMonger]

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[@jamesweigelt1611]

I agree with the comment about how it’s nice to know that there can still be movies made without reverting to filth, explicit sex, violence, etc…and it’s a great up lifting inspirational true story!

[@FilMonger]

Agreed

[@sphmoran28]

I enjoyed watching this movie from the start until the end. I'm just surprised that this film didn't receive any Award nominations. Thank you, George, for making a feel-good movie!

[@FilMonger]

Awesome

[@ai_insect232]

I saw this yesterday at AMC for Screen Unseen and I absolutely loved it. Took me a minute to catch my breath when it was over. The colors in the movie were so calming and a lovely contrast to the action. Was tense and exciting even though I knew the outcome and read the book. Great job!

[@FilMonger]

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[@alexanderlessila2891]

this movie changed my life forever... i am indebted to the young bloke who played the coxen - what a beautiful, life changing film. Thank you mr. Clooney, is there anything you can't do?

[@FilMonger]

Yup. Clooney is the best❤

[@Cassandra-..-]

A+ to the costumers who sourced that many kinds of wool cloth.

[@FilMonger]

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[@lisah.07]

Such a WONDERFUL Movie! Two Generations went to see this on Christmas day... We ALL love it! More Movies like this Please George :) ! I forgot I was watching a movie and felt apart of it!

[@yourthaiguy]

You want a GOOD Clooney directed feature? Watch THE IDES OF MARCH…

[@FilMonger]

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[@ljlou5746]

I just saw this movie tonight. It's an outstanding movie! 10 out of 10.

[@FilMonger]

Awesome

[@df_productions]

I just watched the movie last night and loved it, I’m a coxswain and I love seeing our sport being more publicized. I love the racing scenes, it’s very exhilarating. The story was good. My only critique is the corny line at the end of the movie of “we weren’t eight, we were one”

[@FilMonger]

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[@bgeren8249]

I thought the "corny" line was the best line in the movie.

[@df_productions]

@@bgeren8249 the line wasnt corny but the way he said it, also it isn’t clear who he is and if he was the 7 seat character (I forgot his name) he would be dead by now.

[@TheRozylass]

@@df_productions Yes, that was Joe Rantz, #7 and the older guy at the beginning and end of the film. Read the book, it's fantastic.

[@df_productions]

@@TheRozylass that’s who I thought it was but it didn’t exactly say

[@BarbaraLeMere]

The book was a favorite of mine, I can’t wait to see the movie!

[@mylesgarcia4625]

I found the book to be BORING.

[@FilMonger]

Please share your review after watching the movie 😊❤️

[@huntrrams]

Really loved this film!

[@FilMonger]

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[@wanderingbelle7]

As someone who has not yet read the book, I adored this movie. The three coaches reminded me so much of my coaches (for a different sport) when I was younger, I thought the acting was excellent, and as someone who has never done this sport, it appeared realistic enough to not be distracting. There may be some issues with the rowing technique that I just don’t notice because I haven’t experienced it, and it may not be perfectly faithful to the book, but as just an average viewer of this movie, I’d give it a solid 8/10.

[@FilMonger]

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[@queenbee2371]

Saw this film yesterday and absolutely loved it x

[@FilMonger]

Awesome

[@kirstenerman8068]

As i read the book years ago i wondered if there would be a film. So many interesting stories came from the Berlin Olympics that were made into movies. This one cuts to the chase and gives less about the characters, but enough to draw one in. Enjoyed the movie, loved the book. Both made me seek more of a follow up of information.

[@FilMonger]

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[@jamescoe4765]

Best screen play for sure Oscar and maybe photography and acting by Joe Rantz.

[@FilMonger]

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[@jamescoe4765]

Actors bring dead people back to life. I would like to hear what his grandkids felt when they first saw their grandfather, Joe Rantz, on the big screen. They live near Grass Valley I am told and I think Joe lived there too before he passed. I would have liked to see an epilogue at the end of the movie.

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[@hjtres7261]

This was an Amazing movie!!!!!

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[@ludoka58leo]

I rowed varsity crew (5 seat.."the boiler room) for the University of San Diego from 1977 to 1980.

[@ludoka58leo]

We rowed primarily in wood pocock shells with the old fashioned wood oars...

[@FilMonger]

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[@Amtran727]

I saw this movie today and loved it!

[@FilMonger]

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[@margchris3303]

Loved the movie ! So glad the team won in Berlin

[@FilMonger]

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[@Jimbo7496]

I literally watched this movie today in the movie theatre 😂

[@FilMonger]

Awesome

[@ilmasafitrizunnuraini1144]

I love this movie❤ and curious about the book of Berlin Olympics

[@FilMonger]

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[@TheZanshen]

Great movie and true story of these legends

[@FilMonger]

Awesome

[@stephaniemorrissey123]

5:15 they're filming an old-timey scene and the guy with the cigarette (I'm guessing he's not in the shot) has his phone out LOL

[@westonwise3033]

that’s a notepad…

[@FilMonger]

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[@typxxilps]

5:36 - that is not Grünau, Berlin, the olympic rowing regatta venue of 1936.

[@mylesgarcia4625]

No, it's not. All the rowing scenes were shot in the UK. It's a "movie."

[@FilMonger]

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[@BigMack392]

Ex-oarsman thought - George Clooney is a trip. "We couldn't line up all the boats at the start to film them because the wind and currents were blowing them around". Many racing starts had these conditions. The coxswains directed the oarsmen to correct the boat's attitude as needed. Make the movie real , George, not like you think it should be.

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[@tonywimble9161]

As a Boat Race Official for the past 50 plus years since i retired from competing, races with 6 or more starters are happening every weekend somewhere and we BRO'S are the people making it happen, so have a little sympathy for those volunteers helping run the regattas so the oarspeople can enjoy their sport.

[@df_productions]

I’m a coxswain and the wind is the biggest factor for a bad race start, but I understand be realistic in the making of the film but I also just want to see the boat row already.

[@stephaniemorrissey123]

Movies aren't real. You can see real-life for free. It's called MAKING a movie, not "filming real life."

[@vikramsami8011]

Can’t wait to see this!

[@FilMonger]

Awesome 👏🏻 please share your review after watching this film😊👍🏻

[@yourthaiguy]

You don’t want to….

[@jeffw5263]

4:40 “It don’t mean a thing if it got that swing!”

[@FilMonger]

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[@seanwhitehall4652]

Good movie, hope it makes rowing more mainstream

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[@vikramsami8011]

Too bad Hugh Laurie was too old to be in this. He was a competitive rower before he became an actor.

[@df_productions]

He could’ve been the coach

[@sueholter7156]

Wow. I didn't know that about him. Would love to see him in the movie. He could have been Pocock. I always saw Donald Sutherland as Pocock as I was reading the book.

[@TheGail06]

Awesome movie!!!

[@FilMonger]

Awesome 👏🏻 Thanks for sharing your review😊❤️

[@tammywilliams-ankcorn9533]

There’s also a wonderful documentary.

[@FilMonger]

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[@bustertom49]

One little fact that I did not know and the film certainly never alluded to it, is the fact that the Gold medal for Eights had been won by a Pocock made "boats" for American Universities in every Olympics since 1920 (five) and the first three Olympics aster the war, so eight in a row...

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[@mimiwhite1963]

Loved the book. I am going to watch the movie. Since I am immunosuppressive I had to wait to rent at home because I catch everything. Ugh

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[@VM1LIVE]

Go Dawgs 👊🙏😎

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[@lisanovich3285]

This is a great book and I am glad they have made a good movie but i wish they had put at least some Washington rowing footage in there. The background is not at all like Lake Washington

[@FilMonger]

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[@westsideflyer7559]

It's more enjoyable if you don't pick it apart.

[@jec0435]

@@westsideflyer7559 For those of us that live in the area and know it well, I think it's acceptable to question it.

[@westsideflyer7559]

Without getting into a lot of detail, I've spent WAY more time watching rowing on Lake Washington than you. What made these boys win was their training on Lake Washington. Ulbrickson would have them go on side by side four and five mile pieces. If they could have shown that, it would have told a lot about their fitness and their ability to work together as one. However, I can see how much that would have cost them to do and also realize that Clooney had to beg to get the money that he had. There are other things to pick apart if you know where to look. (The Husky Clipper in the film had four gold victory chevrons on it. They are on the bow of the boat next to the name. Each one marked a national championship. However, The Husky Clipper was built in 1934 and was only used once to win a national championship. (in 1936) A different boat was used in 1935. Another oddity was the locomotive that was used on the train which took them to the IRA was an English train labeled "Great Northern" which was the actual rail line which took them to the IRA. The cars on the train were also British. These are picky details and really don't matter much. Clooney only had so much money and he practically had to beg for the money he had. peating what said, it's more enjoyable if you don't pick it apart.@@jec0435

[@jec0435]

I didn't disagree with you at all and it's not a competition. I'm sure you've certainly seen more of Lake Washington crew than I, and I've likely seen a lot more of Lake Union's crew boats than you, as I lived there. I agree, anything can be picked to death for accuracy and it does boil down to funds if you want to be precise. We are on the same page here. @@westsideflyer7559

[@denissheer9478]

Why doesn't Bill Colley get a mention here 8.14 to 8.54. Great boatbuilder

[@bethanyfisher8640]

why was his suit pin blurred out?

[@FilMonger]

Copyright issues maybe🤷🏻‍♂️ We didn’t blur it

[@rileybrewer]

It would have been nice if the setting looked even slightly like Lake Washington.

[@FilMonger]

Cool

[@VonL]

I’m surprised Mr Calum Turner’s armpit hair didn’t get star billing as it was so prominently featured throughout the film.

[@FilMonger]

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[@jeremybrandeberry5144]

Saw this yesterday. Didn't really seem to get very deep into any character. Just felt like a bunch of separate scenes stuck together. 6/10

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[@chrisbrimhall1613]

Saw it yesterday….the story line was lacking compared to the book….the rowing scenes were good….however the book is WAY BETTER

[@FilMonger]

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[@HullFulweiler]

I am looking forward to seeing this film, It's amazing that at that time someone could show up at college, learn to row and graduate with an Olympic gold medal. Let me say as someone who has done some international rowing, this 1936 Washington crew could have won the four mile IRA's easily if they had rowed the body of the race at 34 strokes a minute and the 2000 meter Olympic race at 36. - but they let the coxswain (who has never rowed in his life) call the race. The book was good but I prefer a book by Emory Clark about the 1964 Vesper Boat Club 8 that won the 1964 Tokyo Olympics - Olympic Odyssey. He was on that crew and tells of the inside details of the crew's lives, some very personal - like what happens when an American Olympic gold medal crew shows up at a Tokyo brothel.

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[@tonywimble9161]

The title would help if you can recall. Think he came to Australia after the Olympics as did other athletes including some Canadian oarsmen.

[@adriannadalvit428]

There are so many deleted scenes!!

[@FilMonger]

Cool. We will post those scenes when they are available

[@harperwelch5147]

The rowing didn’t seem in sync the way pros would do it. Splashing.

[@FilMonger]

Ok

[@westsideflyer7559]

There are no rowing professionals. These are athletic actors who have trained for a few months. Keeping that in mind, they look fine.

[@nataliaandrews1659]

Id love to see you do what they did 😂😂

[@runner2008]

This movie was barely filmed in Seattle/Pacific Northwest. Clooney filmed it entirely in England. That is disappointing to me.

[@FilMonger]

It all depends on where the production can be done at ease. So as long as the screenplay is executed to match the real story, then everything should be fine😊👍🏻

[@BigMack392]

Is it possible to put together eight actors however athletic they might be, train them for a month or so, and then have them perform in a film on rowing and convince the experienced oarsmen out there watching that what is being done is real?

[@bernhardkloter8473]

Honestly, judging from those clips they are out of sync and their catch is way too slow. Nobody learns to row in one month and they didn’t convince me. But hey, it’s a movie. They do get the old style (overreaching) quite right.

[@westsideflyer7559]

@@bernhardkloter8473 It's more satisfying if you don't pick it apart.

[@Gloria-t4p]

Was George pranking everybody?

[@FilMonger]

Maybe. He is always jovial on sets

[@EJWash57]

Why in the fuck is there background music?

[@FilMonger]

Sorry 😞

[@stephaniemorrissey123]

THEIR

[@stephaniemorrissey123]

​@FilMonger Don't say "sorry" to someone who doesn't know the difference between "there" and "their."

[@FilMonger]

@@stephaniemorrissey123thanks for the support ❤

[@harperwelch5147]

You can’t train actors to look like world class rowers.

[@barbp2768]

My husband rowed Crew (beat Harvard) and my husband’s response to your comment was if the actors weren’t athletic, they weren’t chosen for this excellent movie.

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[@SagesRS]

I love how delightfully boring this is. Its just real people doing real things in real places. Its so refreshing.

[@FilMonger]

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[@evanshaw17]

Sadly, I think you missed the boat here so to speak. Frankly, the PBS documentary was Superior. It doesn’t evoke the accuracy of the story the meaning of it, and the reality of the horrible poverty of the time, the suffering, and what it all meant to everyone it’s too much about the egos of the Director and producer Sadly

[@ebybeehoney]

- this isn't about the story of the film. It is how the film was made. Those are two different approaches and both the PBS and this were spot on, very good documentaries.

[@mitchbarber4748]

I agree. The film was good but was missing something. I never got that connection to the characters or a real feeling of the adversity they faced. It was pretty, but the PBS documentary really gave me a better feel for the people, the times, etc. Clooney stated that they were trying to show how they had to go against the upperclassmen, then the rich, then the world. But the movie only hinted at those conflicts, never really building the tension. It made it seem like they just went out and won every time, when that wasn’t really the case. Probably an artifact of movie length and Hollywood drama. They compressed three years of ups and downs into one season, and shoehorned in a love story.

[@ccwoodlands1565]

Movie reviews were lackluster 😕 PBS documentary is good

[@FilMonger]

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[@OGchickentnt]

I’m sorry, the rowing scenes let the movie down a lot. Something was just entirely wrong about it, the boats didn’t move like the should. The movie was good, and I thought it was fun, but it all looked entirely wrong and I couldn’t get over it.

[@twittertwice]

I prefer to believe George Clooney’s filmmaking…

[@mylesgarcia4625]

Yeah, the hair dye job on Callum Turner is absolutely phoney.

[@FilMonger]

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[@davidmorton4626]

Great story! I appreciate 🙏 Amen to a celebration of usa ....we need unity action with love and embrace!

[@-Stop-it]

I’ve met a number of rowers. They all think every other rower has bad form.

[@tneczypor]

Hugh ;,!,,, now your joking

[@FilMonger]

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[@jillkinnear6378]

Won’t go see this although it looks good don’t like George Clooney.

[@FilMonger]

Ok

[@gardengeek3041]

Looks phoney, right off the bat. Clothing was much more rumpled in those days. Original photos of teams are everywhere, showing mismatched practice wear. This looks like SportChek, made to measure in modern miracle fabrics. Why do they think 'spiffing' it up makes for a better film?

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[@yourthaiguy]

Saw it yesterday…disappointing…about as deep as a birdbath. First Clooney directed film I didn’t like.. very very vanilla. More deserving of a HALLMARK MOVIE OF THE WEEK entry than a theatrical release.

[@FilMonger]

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[@anthonyegan59]

Ah, it lacked depth...of course Clooney is a bit superficial.. it manifests in this movie... Blue Blood..say no more.

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[@ATT-02]

I would never watch this movie! The book was so good, that I already know i wouldn’t get past 2 minutes. It’s too bad that people with influence and money are put in charge of movies like this. If I was on the set, I would’ve recast everyone! And also changed the script, when I recognized that the people in charge of the characters, are clueless on how to portray them!

[@westsideflyer7559]

No one was "put in charge" of this movie. Clooney fought to make it and fought for the money to make it. I must ask: where did you get all of this knowledge to direct actors to portray these characters?

[@FilMonger]

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[@ATT-02]

@@westsideflyer7559 Where did I get my knowledge? Do you read good historical books?? I’ve read hundreds! Good writers transport you back in time, so you can literally relive the experience of what these people went through. Emotionally and physically. It’s very difficult to find any actors that can pull this off? So what we’re seeing is a very poor example of the reality these folks went through. Go watch The Revenant, with Leonardo DiCaprio. This is how a good movie is made. You can feel his characters pain. Its a very tough skill to master. Then go back and watch the carton character’s that your used to watching and keep calling it great acting. 😂🤣😂

[@nataliaandrews1659]

@@ATT-02everyone has different opinions. Doesnt make them wrong.

[@mylesgarcia4625]

The BEST Olympic/sports movies are: CHARIOTS OF FIRE, BREAKING AWAY and ROCKY I. The Girls in the Boat, I think, will be a pale entry in this category. LOL!

[@FilMonger]

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[@yourthaiguy]

Agreed… I’d add HOOSIERS, THE LONGEST YARD (1975), REMEMBER THE TITANS to your list.

[@westsideflyer7559]

What would be the problem with a rowing film about women? You need to grow up and realize that calling someone a girl is not a very good insult.

[@mylesgarcia4625]

@@westsideflyer7559 Boring, Never said a rowing film about women was bad. You gotta get over this EXTREMELY BORING PC stance!! Ya need to grow up!!

[@wildoceanappaloosawomangay2535]

Looks boring 👎

[@FilMonger]

Ok

[@heidinewman9335]

Just watched it and thought it was great. The casting was spot on. Joel Edgerton was amazing.

[@FilMonger]

@@heidinewman9335 Thanks for sharing your review

[@yourthaiguy]

Was boring! The acting, music and cinemaphotography were all good but it was a total bore…

[@df_productions]

This was not a boring movie, the BTS looks boring but being in the boat like I am (I’m a coxswain) is something way more exhilarating. I watched the movie and loved it

[@cherinelson3436]

Filmonger, loose the music.

[@FilMonger]

Sure. Sorry for the inconvenience 🙏🏻

[@gaillouise8310]

Will never see this movie, such a good story about real people and it happens in a place of sheer beauty. None oof that is shown in this travesty. The actors were hideous.

[@FilMonger]

Alright 👍🏻

[@rtimbr64]

This movie was terrible. Read the book. It's one of the best books I have read. Incredible story and this bad movie does it no justice.

[@FilMonger]

Alright