Apparently David Fincher is directing it. Based on his reputation, this will probably portray Fischer is a dark psychological sense, with chess simply being the driving factor being his character, rather than being the spotlight of the movie.
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jyrenth wrote:
Apparently David Fincher is directing it. Based on his reputation, this will probably portray Fischer is a dark psychological sense, with chess simply being the driving factor being his character, rather than being the spotlight of the movie.
If chess was the spotlight of the movie, almost no one would see it. But Fischer was one messed up dude, he only really like playing chess because he enjoyed making grown men cry, AND more importantly, beating Russians for whom he bore significant racism.
If it ends in 1972 it will not be very ugly.Anyway it will be good for chess as it will show to the public what a tough game chess can be.
buddy3 wrote:
They can do the factual movie for chess players and have a few thousand audience or they can fabricate a Fischer and have a few million or they can compromise and nobody will watch it. I think a movie, like Springtime for Hitler, might be more appropriate.
I can't see why millions of people would prefer a fantasy figure who happens to be named Fischer over wanting to see how things really were. If you want a fantasy figure, make up a fantasy name.
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TheGrobe wrote:
Estragon wrote:
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It's not going to be hard to make us all look like weirdo freaks.
We are not Bobby Fischer.
You know that, and I know that, and most active chessplayers know that. The public at large holds stereotypes of chessplayers, which will largely be reinforced even by an accurate portrayl of Fischer's life.
Do non golfers think that all golfers have a dozen mistresses because of Woods. I would like to think people are smarter than that.
Ch3ck2Ch3ck wrote:
Of course being a Fischer fan I am excited about this however I think they should of gotten Nicolas Cage to play Fischer... I always thought he'd be a perfect match. Tobey Maguire? I just don't see it.
I know many people are a big fan... but I can't stand Nicolas Cage... it's like he just got back from the dentist and his face is still numb and droopy, the same expression for every scene 
-- but yeah, a lot of people love him.
Toby Maguire seems too young... but I guess it's been a while since the spider man stuff... looking him up he's something like 35 now, so that seems ok.
Mar 18, 2010
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I'm very excited about this, but still have some reservations whether this would be good or bad for the public image of chess, which is around 1300 elo anyway, (1500 in some countries)
. I hope they can make it clear that it was Fischer who was a nutjob, and it wasn't chess' fault.
When are they going to make a movie about Paul Morphy? Francis Parkinson Keyes' novel "The Chessplayers" is ripe for adaptation.
Mar 18, 2010
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Ch3ck2Ch3ck wrote:
Of course being a Fischer fan I am excited about this however I think they should of gotten Nicolas Cage to play Fischer... I always thought he'd be a perfect match. Tobey Maguire? I just don't see it.
Exactly! Cage would be perfect with both the acting skills and the physical resemblance.
as to his age as the movie gos only up to 1972 then Toby is ok afterall Fischer is age 29 in 1972.
Cage is too hot/emotional/over-acting in general (and too old). Maguire has that weird autistic look- though don't know if he can do the inner intensity part.
jesterville wrote:
"They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men.
They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man.
There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat."
Robert James Fischer, 1962, Harper's Magazine
Fischer was a brilliant chess player, but he was also an idiot, and had little regard for women, I hope the real Fischer is displayed, and not the American crap that Hollywood wants everyone to believe.
That's just Fischer being Fischer, controversial with his comments. I'm sure he believed that (quote), although you have to remember he did teach the Polgar sisters to play...why did Fischer believe that women weren't good at chess? Well, at the time (1962), how many women were playing chess and those that were, at what level were they playing?
I think everyone knows that he is a little bit nutty, but that's him. People don't like him for his weirdness, they like him for his chess abilities. Whatever the movie does as far as potraying chess-players, it does not matter much to me because it is not chess that make someone who they are; chess did not do that to Fischer, he is who he is and he just happen to play chess. Meaning that playing chess will not turn you into a nut job; just because you may play chess, does not mean you are weird. And yes, there are sane, normal people that play chess.
I don't believe this movie will do anything or much for chess as a sport...just like "A Beautiful Mind" did not do much for math/science. It will be just a movie, hopefully well made and will give insight to the workings of a mind that is, well...in one way, brilliant in chess. In another way, tortured.
Maguire is too short, and looks nothing like Fischer. We'll see how this movies pans out...if it is ever released.
NM raskolnnikov said:
Yep, he was THE MAN when it came to chess, stood up against the whole Soviet Union and yet defeated them with relative easyness. This movie will finally be a fair tribute for the most determined person ever to touch a chess board.
Gee, gosh, the U.S. State Department couldn't have said it better.
Come on, you all know what Hollywood is going to do with this one.
All I ever wanted to do, is to play some chess... see chess forum.
Mar 18, 2010
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Hammerschlag wrote:
jesterville wrote:
"They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men.
They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man.
There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat."
Robert James Fischer, 1962, Harper's Magazine
Fischer was a brilliant chess player, but he was also an idiot, and had little regard for women, I hope the real Fischer is displayed, and not the American crap that Hollywood wants everyone to believe.
That's just Fischer being Fischer, controversial with his comments. I'm sure he believed that (quote), although you have to remember he did teach the Polgar sisters to play...
He didn't "teach" them to play, he just played some fischer random games in blitz with them for a short period of time.
Everyone here seems to think this movie will be great for chess. Be that as it may, I think professional chess boxing is far greater for the game 
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please recheck me but i think the director name was Fincher an that toby was happy to get this job to play Fischer an the movie ends at the 1972 world championship match could there be a 2nd movie with toby in the future?when you check out the susan polgar chess blog which is where i found all this out you may have to click on her link for older blogs as She updates a lot.By the way this is one of the best blogs an chess site out there on the web.I found it also on the movie Varitey web page.