Summary The Boys in the Boat film compressed the story’s timeline to focus on the events leading up to the 1936 Olympics, cutting out three years of the University of Washington team’s journey.
The film left out a significant moment in Joe Rantz’s life, where he was abandoned by his father and stepmother at a young age.
The Berkeley coach did not donate money to the rowing team as depicted in the film but instead offered his support for their Olympic journey.
The Boys in the Boat is based on Daniel James Brown’s 2013 book of the same name, which depicts the inspiring true story of the United States men’s eight rowing team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. However, director George Clooney and screenwriter Mark L. Smith had to make a handful of changes to the account of the events to dramatize the 2023 biographical sports drama film further (as is the case with most movies based on true stories). Everything in the feature couldn’t be completely accurate to real life. But the producers tried their best to honor the University of Washington men’s rowing team, who pulled off an upset in Germany.
Despite the filmmakers having to alter parts of the story, the cast of The Boys in the Boat played actual people, including Callum Turner as Joe Rantz, Joel Edgerton as Al Ulbrickson, Jack Mulhern as Don Hume, Sam Strike as Roger Morris, Alec Newman as Harry Rantz, Peter Guinness as George Pocock, Luke Slattery as Bobby Moch, Thomas Elms as Chuck Day, Tom Varey as Johnny White, Bruce Herbelin-Earle as Shorty Hunt, Wil Coban as Jim McMillin, Hadley Robinson as Joyce Simdars, Courtney Henggeler as Hazel Ulbrickson, James Wolk as Thomas Bolles, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Royal Brougham. The cast came together to portray the 1936 men’s eight team’s story on the big screen as faithfully as possible.
6 The Timeline In The Boys In The Boat Is Compressed
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One of the most significant changes that director George Clooney and screenwriter Mark L. Smith had to make to Daniel James Brown’s non-fiction novel The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics for their film was the story’s timeline. During an interview with USA Today, Brown revealed how the 2023 biographical sports drama altered the 1936 Olympic United States men’s eight team’s story, including its duration. In the movie, it only took a year for Joe Rantz, Don Hume, Bobby Moch, and the other rowers to come together and start their trek to the Olympic Games. But in real life, the timeline was longer.
Whereas the University of Washington’s men’s rowing team’s complete story arc took three years in real life, The Boys in the Boat only chronicled their training and Olympic journey in 1936. Brown told USA Today,
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