{"id":37474,"date":"2024-11-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37474"},"modified":"2024-11-03T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T22:06:19","slug":"team-foxcatcher-2016-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37474","title":{"rendered":"“Team Foxcatcher” (2016) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Team Foxcatcher<\/b><\/i><\/em> (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director: Jon Greenhalgh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n

The Plot…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Billionaire John DuPont was always a bit off.\u00a0 DuPont’s eccentricities were overlooked because of his philanthropy.\u00a0 He was very generous.\u00a0 Mr. DuPont supported his city police, athletic sports and various charities.\u00a0 When John DuPont took an interest in Olympic wrestling, he went all in.<\/p>\n

John DuPont built a million dollar facility on his sprawling estate.\u00a0 In addition to his mansion, there were several houses, a state of the art weight\/workout center and a gigantic wrestling room with multiple mats.\u00a0 DuPont hired a full-time trainer.\u00a0 John reached out to Dave Schultz, the United States most decorated world champion\/Olympic champion wrestler.\u00a0 Dave Schultz agreed to come on board.\u00a0 DuPont then contacted other of USA’s best wrestlers to join his team.\u00a0 He provided them housing and a stipend to come train as part of his team.<\/p>\n

This was seen as a godsend by the invited wrestlers.\u00a0 They no longer had to worry about supporting themselves.\u00a0 They could train every day with the best wrestlers in the world.\u00a0 DuPont’s system worked.\u00a0 The USA team begin to win consistently.<\/p>\n

DuPont had always been off kilter.\u00a0 He was slowly getting worse.\u00a0 DuPont thought he was capable of wrestling competitively.\u00a0 The wrestlers, not wanting to upset him, played along.\u00a0 When he began seeing “things” in the woods around his house, most of them went along.\u00a0 Then he wanted to get rid of anything black in his life.\u00a0 He sold his black horses.\u00a0 He told one of the wrestlers living on the compound to get rid of his black car.\u00a0 He then fired all of the black wrestlers on Team Foxcatcher.\u00a0 Even when he pulled a gun on one of the wrestlers, it was played off as “John being John.”<\/p>\n

Then one morning John DuPont drove over to the house Dave Schultz was staying.\u00a0 Dave and his wife were out front.\u00a0 DuPont rolled down his window and shot Dave Schultz in the chest.\u00a0 Murdered him in cold blood.<\/p>\n

This is the story of how too much money blinded too many people to the warning signs that increasingly indicated a man becoming a danger to himself and others.<\/p>\n

Team Foxcatcher<\/b><\/i> (2016)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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