#i tonya 2017

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I, Tonya (2017)

Director: Craig Gillespie DOP: Nicolas Karakatsanis Production Design: Jade Healy

#cinematography #film stills #visual storytelling #i tonya #i tonya 2017 #craig gillespie #margot robbie #tonya harding

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I, Tonya (2017)

⛸️-ing Goes ⬆️ in 🚬

Directed by Craig Gillespie, this biographical film is about the personal life and career of former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding and the aftermath of the infamous attack on competitor Nancy Kerrigan.

Margot Robbie plays the title role while the supporting cast includes: Allison Janney as Tonya’s mother LaVona Harding, Sebastian Stan as Tonya’s husband Jeff Gillooly, Julianne Nicholson as Tonya’s skating coach Diane Rawlinson, Paul Walter Hauser as Tonya’s bodyguard Shawn Eckardt and Bobby Cannavale in a special appearance as reporter Martin Maddox.

Margot Robbie (whose performance garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actress) gives a thoroughly dedicated performance to the role of a fierce yet disgraced champion. Allison Janney (whose performance won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress) is insanely brilliant as an unloving mother prone to verbal and physical abuse… her award-winning performance is literally the bomb. What’s more, the tumultuous relationship between mother and daughter is basically the core of the movie. Sebastian Stan is amazing as a violent spouse whose harebrained scheme was the indirect cause for the downfall of Tonya’s career. Paul Walter Hauser (who also played Horace in Craig Gillespie’s next directorial project known as Cruella) is hilarious as a crafty bodyguard who is more than willing to do whatever it takes to gain publicity for Tonya (and himself). Even Bobby Cannavale is quite the comical scene-stealer in the present-day scenes.

The narrative is depicted in the style of a mockumentary. Although the film is focused solely on Tonya’s skating profession, the story is told through a series of modern-day interviews. The interesting yet ironic thing about the movie is you expect Tonya and the people in her life to fess up about what really happened, but they prove to be unreliable narrators that each have different points of view contradicting one another. At the same time, the characters occasionally break the fourth wall to tell the audience what goes on inside their minds. All in all, you see a story within a story that adds dark humor to an overly dramatic storyline.

In terms of observing the psychology behind each individual, Tonya’s unapologetic attitude stems from a lack of sympathy due to her savage upbringing. Despite vigorous training in which she became the first American woman to land a triple Axel in competition, she wasn’t a very graceful contestant. LaVona’s cruel demeanor represents an emotionally disturbed person. Since the Harding family came from a poor background, LaVona, seeking a way out of such hardships, forced Tonya to skate at a very young age, even when she’d tell her daughter she wouldn’t amount to anything. Furthermore, LaVona used harsh criticism to inspire her daughter to stand out among the other skaters. Jeff Gillooly was a controlling person who concocted a plan to thwart Tonya’s latest competition to see if she might take him back following their divorce. Shawn Eckardt is a down-on-his-luck, unintelligent guy who took advantage of the situation by hiring a couple of crooks to physically assault Nancy Kerrigan. It was then afterwards that everything came crashing down on Tonya.

Aside from the psychological drama and absurdity, the skating is absolutely stunning on screen. The physicality of the jumps and spins are clearly down to a science, including the triple Axel (done in CGI due to its complex maneuver as explained by the characters). What’s really mind-blowing, however, is the way Margot Robbie portrays Tonya with such intensity both on and off the ice.

The film demonstrates the contrasting difference between fame and scandal. First thing to understand is that figure skating, like any sport, has its share of rough play. Back then, the Skating Association was particular about the appearance of each skater from around the world. Although Tonya was a sensation in the public eye, she skated with rage (as a result of being pushed to sink to that level by her mother). As such, she was ridiculed partly for her handmade outfits (as she was broke from the beginning), but mostly for her redneck reputation. That’s when Diane, aside from her coaching, encouraged Tonya to dress better and ease the tension to get a better score. As for the incident, Jeff was trying to pull a few strings with Shawn’s help to take the weight off Tonya’s shoulders in terms of rivalry. Because Tonya was accused of being involved in the attack, she was pressured into facing legal charges during the 1994 Winter Olympics, hence her entire life was hanging by a thread.

A killer soundtrack contains a list of hit songs from the ‘70s and ‘80s. The track list includes: “Devil Woman” by Cliff Richard, “Romeo & Juliet” by British rock band Dire Straits, ZZ Top’s “Sleeping Bag” (which Tonya actually used as an unconventional choice of performance music in some of her skating routines), “Barracuda” by Heart and “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac to name a few. Cover versions of “Gloria”, “Dream a Little Dream of Me” and “The Passenger” are heard as well.

Finally, as mentioned earlier, you’re not going to get the whole truth out of this movie, but on the other hand, you get to come up with your own opinion whether you think Tonya deserved better. With that said, I recommend this wildly amusing biopic to every lover and hater of Tonya Harding.

#I Tonya 2017 #Craig Gillespie #biographical film #sports film #mockumentary #figure skating #Tonya Harding #Margot Robbie #allison janney #LaVona Golden #abusive mother #sebastian stan #Jeff gillooly #1994 assault of Nancy Kerrigan #breaking the fourth wall

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Leeor Wild - 2017

#margot robbie #photoshoot #gorgeous #fun #i tonya #sebastian stan #2017 #allison janney #cute #fave

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.

i, tonya (2017) / the texas chainsaw massacre (1975) / ichi the killer (2000) / get out (2017) / fresh (2022) / coraline (2009) / pearl (2022) / in the mouth of madness (1997) / midsommar (2019) / oldboy (2000)

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I, Tonya (2017)

#I Tonya #2017 #quotes #Sebastian Stan

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The brilliantly berserk biopic ‘I, Tonya’ starring Margot Robbie opened in theaters this week 5 years ago. ⛸🧊🏅

“𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚙𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎.”

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'Was anything I ever did good enough for you?'. I, Tonya (2017)

#I Tonya #movies #peliculas #yo Tonya #Margot Robbie #frases #diario #patinaje #2023 #2017 #Netflix #personaje #character

[adamwatchesmovies]

I, Tonya (2017)

They could make a hundred movies about Tonya Harding and there would never be another like I, Tonya. This stylish, sometimes exaggerated telling of the figure skater’s story may actually be more authentic than a real-life documentary could ever be.

Cruelly raised by her mother (Allison Janney), skating prodigy Tony Harding (Margot Robbie) suffered years of emotional and physical abuse but nevertheless emerged a champion. The film, based on contradicting testimonies from the Olympic skater, her mother, her no-good husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), his best friend/Tonya’s bodyguard, Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter), and her skating coaches explain how it all went to pieces.

If you don’t know the Tonya Harding, you’ll probably be able to piece what’s going to happen to her career about 40 minutes in. That's not a flaw. This film is the rare instance where knowing how it ends actually makes the movie better. Director Craig Gillespie knows why the audience is tuning in. “Tonya Harding? Isn’t she the one who attacked Nancy Kerrigan and bashed her knee with a baton right before the olympics?” Some of that is right but not quite and even if you know what actually happened, this movie’s still got ya. It’s an outrageous tale you’d swear was fiction. I mean, come on. They made Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter) into a moron whose head is so thick he’d have trouble getting out the house in one piece. There’s no way… oh wait. Is that a clip of the real-life guy? Well. I guess they nailed it then. The more you know, the more you realize how many stars had to alignn for this to happen the way it did. You’re ready to laugh, and you will… but then the movie’ll turn around to face you and damn if it doesn’t deliver a bombshell that’ll stop you dead in your tracks.

They don’t make movies like this. Whenever we see the words "based on a true story", you know you're in for an inspirational movie; it’s that one time the team caught lightning in a bottle or the one time the odds were beaten. I, Tonya is not that story. Tonya Harding was born into trash and the world never forgot to remind her of that. Every time she managed to claw her way up the cliffside of poverty, something or someone was there to knock her back down again. Frequently, it was her mother or her husband but more than once, it was the very sport she loved so much and maybe one time… it was even us. The movie gets downright savage but it’s also so outrageous, so funny you happily jump on for the ride. In every scene that breaks the fourth wall, director Craig Gillespie seems to suggest that no matter how bad things get - and they will get bad - it only makes sense to laugh a little. It’s not as if one person no matter how talented or determined can really change our destinies, after all.

Repeat viewings keep revealing fresh and tasty decisions made by the filmmakers. You get to fully appreciate the performances, for instance. Margot Robbie plays Tonya Harding from a teenager to a grown woman and you buy her all the way because she’s so utterly committed to the role. Allison Janey is so evil you expect her to turn up with a suit made of Dalmatians… but she’s too trashy even for that. Everyone we see is great.

I, Tonya hilarious and heartbreaking. The performances alone would make this movie great even if the story was boring, which it’s anything but. There’s just no other movie like this one out there. (June 7, 2019)

#I Tonya #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Craig Gillespie #Steven Rogers #Margot Robbie #Sebastian Stan #Julianne Nicholson #Bobby Cannavale #Allison Janney #2017 movies #2017 films

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Margot Robbie - “I, Tonya” Press Conference (November 20, 2017)

#margot robbie #celebrity #press conference #i tonya #2017 #2010s #beautiful blonde #high heels #stylish and sexy #bright smile #absolutely beautiful

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#why are they all from 2017...... #only one i've seen is i tonya but i cannot remember it at allllllll

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Allison Janney, Best Supporting Actress for the film, "I Tonya." (2017)

#allison janney #i tonya #2017 academy awards #academy award winner #academy awards #oscar winner #oscar awards #movie stars

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TIFF - Buzzfeed - 2017

#margot robbie #photoshoot #i tonya #sebastian stan #2017

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~1600 words

#Adam Cadre #calendar #2017 Skandies #I Tonya #Wonderstruck

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Hot girl movies

Movies i’d usually gate-keep about addiction, growing up, being a teenage girl, music, the 2000s and late 90s, femininity, mental illness, etc. (you might actually not have heard about some of these.) (some of these r pretty popular I know!!)

Blue Car (2002)

White Oleandor (2002)

Speak (2004)

Firefox (1996)

Kids (1995)

Palo Alto (2013)

Heathers (1989)

Augusta Gone (2006)

Hard Candy (2005)

American Beauty (1999)

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Ghost world (2001)

Trainspotting (1996)

Juno (2007)

Thirteen (2003)

The Virgin suicides (1999)

Buffalo ‘66 (1998)

Gone Girl (2014)

Girl interrupted (1999)

Black Swan (2010)

Mid90s (2018)

Whip It (2009)

Lady bird (2017)

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (2012)

Normal Adolescent Behaviour (2007)

Blue Valentine (2010)

Crazy Beautiful (2001)

Its a funny kind of story (2010)

Slums Of Beverly Hills (1998)

Anywhere But Here (1999)

Adventure Land (2009)

Save The Last Dance (2001)

Garden State (2004)

Rules Of Attraction (2002)

Promising Young Woman (2020)

Requiem Of A Dream (2000)

Gia (1998)

Candy (2006)

Beautiful Boy (2018)

Almost Famous (2000)

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

The Craft (1996)

The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (2015)

But I’m A Cheerleader (1999)

Boyhood (2014)

Spun (2002)

Red Road (2006)

The Piano Teacher (2001)

Bulbbul (2020)

Sucker Punch (2011)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Helter-Skelter (2012)

Cruel Intentions (1999)

I, TONYA (2018)

Amelie (2001)

Daisies (1966)

Perfect Blue (1997)

Prozac Nation (2001)

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

Leon (1994)

Valley Of The Dolls (1967)

The Crush (1993)

Carrie (1976)

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

If anyone actually sees this and likes it I’d be more than happy to make a part 2. This took me awhile lol. I know some of these are a little basic but I tried to have a strong mix of well-known and lesser plus romance, comedy, psychological thrillers, cheesy etc. Its very broad so there’s something for everyone and hopefully something new for someone.

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I, Tonya (2017)

#I Tonya #Margot Robbie #quotes #2017