Blades of Glory: Some funny facts

Blades of Glory is a movie about ice skating. Ice Skating is quite popular in Western countries. Here are some interesting facts about the movie:

• For the movie, both Will Ferrell and Jon Heder had to learn ice skating. They trained with Sarah Kawahara.
• The iron lotus move was actually poking fun at the movie, The Cutting Edge. In The Cutting Edge, Kate Moseley’s coach, Anton Pamchenko, introduces this move. In reality, it is impossible to perform.
• The ‘life time ban’ thing was related to American Figure skater, Tonya Maxine Harding.
• Some of the real skaters to appear in the movie are: Sasha Cohen, Scott Hamilton, Peggy Fleming, Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill, Nancy Kerrigan, Kyoko Ina, Yuka Sato, Jamie Sale, and David Pelletier.
• Stranz and Fairchild planning to injure Chazz was inspired by Tonya harding’s attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
• In the movie we see that, Chazz was injured while skating. In reality, it was Jon Heder. He broke his ankle during the training.
• All of the scenes of the World Figure Skating Championships in Blades of Glory were shot at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
• The lifts performed by Chazz and Jimmy are dance lifts.
• The peacock costume you saw Jon Heder was wearing was actually his idea after he saw skater Johnny Weir.

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Blades of Glory: A funny movie but also disturbing

Yesterday, I watched Will Ferrell and Jon Heder’s Blades of Glory and to be honest it was funny and gay and last but not the least, incestuous. It tells the story of two accomplished rival ice skaters: Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder), who were facing lifetime bans. Three years later, a die-hard fan and stalker of Jimmy informs him of a loophole in the sports which bans him from men’s single but he can compete in pair. While searching for a female partner, Jimmy ended up with Chazz who was just fired from his job. Initially, they quarreled all the time but gradually they became friends and finally go to Winter Olympics. Overall, it was a funny movie. It made me laugh a lot but sometimes I got irritated a bit. Jimmy and Chazz’s overall physical appearance, their dress, hair style gave me a feeling that they are attracted to same sex person. Another thing that bothered me was the kissing scene between the brother and sister- Stranz and Fairchild. In real life, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler are married but they were playing the roles of brother and sister. I did not like the scene at all. The director could have made up something different. Anyway, it was a funny movie and good to watch.