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Friday, 10 September 2010

Tiger Woods as Movie Fodder

Posted on 10:50 by hony
Here's an overdone movie plot for you:
a man defines himself at an early age as a prodigy in his field. He has daddy issues, because his dad means a lot to him. He quickly intimidates and dominates all his competition. After a short period of utter domination, he falls in love with a girl. The movie picks up the ominous steam here, as his fame causes him to be tempted by the wiles of many a cheap, gorgeous harlot. Soon, he slips; he is tempted away from his faithful and beautiful wife, and disappoints his all-too-important father.
Things begin to go downhill for him after his father (who we are costantly reminded had a big effect on the protagonist) dies tragically. Then his loving wife catches him cheating. His life is shattered. Shattered too is his talent. He makes a desperate, angry, ill-fated attempt to regain his prestige, but fails, and is humiliated out of the sport.

He disappears for a while, into the wilderness, where he meets a wise old hermit that teaches him both the err of his ways as well as necessary wisdom and tools to return him to the top of his game. Word spreads across the country side of a huge tournament, where all the top people in the protagonists' field will be competing for some huge, impractical goal. Against all odds, he enters. He does not get back together with his estranged love, rather he asks her forgiveness and hopes she finds happiness elsewhere. He sees a vision of his father, telling him to use all his new learned knowledge to overcome not just his opponents...but himself too.
When the competition starts, naysayers and competitors verbally and mentally try him. He doubts whether the comeback was a good idea. But at the last possible instant, he recognizes deep fundamental truths about life, and himself, and uses them as motivation, utterly dominating his competition once again.
Sound like a movie(s) you've seen before? This is literally Tiger Woods' life. Right now Tiger is in the "ill-fated comeback doomed to fail" period before the "disappear into the wilderness and meet a wise old hermit phase."
What Tiger needs is to take a trip to his roots, visit Asia, and walk around 2 feet taller than the locals (you've seen that scene). He needs to run into a 400 year old golfing Asian hermit, who teaches him to drive the ball from mountaintop to mountaintop, and teaches Tiger that he doesn't know anything by hitting a ball 400 yards into a teacup without spilling the tea inside. Then Tiger can have some sort of music-laden montage where he learns all the secrets of Ancient Mandarin Golf, and rejuvenates his soul through daily meditations (which we barely see, because that would be a boring montage).
Then, and only then, should Tiger swing another golf club in public. Right now the man is just embarrassing himself.


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