I wonder how much the movie covers the relationship between Jesse and Luz Long, his German opponent.
I am amazed if the screenplay was not stuffed full of present-day “Black Lives Matter” political crap.
As long as it’s not another 42. That sucked.
Hats off to Jesse Owens, I’m sure he was a hero and a brave man, but I’ll pass on this one. I am sick of all the racial stuff coming out of the entertainment industry lately.
Black people good, white people evil, yeah we get it.
After the war, Jesse Owens lived in Chicago, where I grew up. I remember seeing him on television occasionally (e.g., at a Cubs game). He was a heavy smoker, which eventually killed him in his late 60s.
One of Owens’s Olympic teammates, Ralph Metcalfe, also lived in Chicago and later became an alderman and then congressman (Democrat, of course).
My mother always claimed that she and Jesse were good friends in High school. She had a little pewter bulldog figurine that she said Jesse made for her. Of course I have no way of knowing if this is true or not, but my mom was not a story teller.