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...movie store. Nevertheless, the sports film constitutes a distinctive genre complete with all the requisite conventions and clichés. “The Express” is a fine exemplar of this class of movies—not for its quality, but for its representativeness. Director Gary Fleder and writer Charles Leavitt rehash, but do not reinvigorate, a set of generic devices that will be familiar to almost any viewer who has taken in a sports film in the last 30 years. For better or worse—and with respect to creative innovation, I would argue worse?...
Zornow journeyed into the big city with childhood friend and current MIT senior Mike S. Fleder. “Both of us were always looking for music that people from our neighborhood didn’t normally listen to,” he says. “It’s a little bit of a counterculture thing...
...Fleder bought turntables, too, but Zornow’s skills truly took off. “He had a little more determination; he really took to it more than I did,” says Fleder. “He would go and practice for like 10 hours a day...he’d sit in class, trying to figure out what new scratches and patterns he could come up with...
Which is not to say that the film, directed by veteran Gary Fleder and adapted from the book by Andrew Klavan, isn’t frequently a lot of fun. Though it is riddled with laughable plot contrivances and unnecessary characters who impede the flow of the story, this movie isn’t concerned with making sense, and its pace and vigor almost divert your attention from such mean-spirited questions...
...Gary Fleder...
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