Pictures of Freddie Joe Steinmark and His Family
'My All American' celebrating the Freddie Steinmark story November 13, 2015 Sister Rose
Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock; Unbroken; American Horror Story) is a scrappy, gritty, determined and successful high school football game thespian in Colorado whose begetter Fred (Michael Reilly Burke) taught him the game and was present at all of Freddie's. When Freddie is a junior, and grooming intensely, he meets Linda Wheeler (Sarah Bolger) and it'southward love at first sight. Early on on they start talking almost how many kids they want to take when they get married.
In 1968 Freddie applies for college scholarships but because of his small-scale stature he doesn't become any offers for the large schools. Then one day he gets a phone call. Someone sent all of the films of Freddie'southward games to legendary motorcoach Darrell Royal (Aaron Eckhart) of the University of Texas at Austin. Passenger vehicle Royal is very impressed and offers the immature human being a place on the team. Freddie is shocked and accepts the position of safety. Meanwhile, Linda applies and is accepted at UT as well.
Freddie'southward days are packed with football do and he quietly attends Mass every day during high school and at college. He and Linda draw closer and continue to plan for their future.
In 1969 the Longhorns are #1 and prepping to play the #2 school in the Southwest Conference, the Arkansas Razorbacks. Information technology came to be known as 'The Game of the Century" when the Longhorns came from behind (xiv-0 after three quarters) to win 15-fourteen. All the players then focused on the Cotton fiber Bowl Archetype on Jan 1, 1970.
But before that, Freddie, who had been nursing what he idea was a bruised bone injury all season and limping was diagnosed with a large tumor at the base of his femur. The doctors amputated his leg at the hip. Freddie was told he could non go to the Cotton wool Bowl Game, that he wouldn't heal on time, but he started working and defied doctor'southward orders to stand at the sidelines while the Longhorns crushed Notre Matriarch 21-17.
All in all, "My All American" may seem similar merely another football story, merely it is so much more than than this considering it's almost an ordinary kid who had an boggling heart and spirit and who always wanted to win. He was never shy about his appetite yet he was a squad histrion all the fashion. To this 24-hour interval, those players who knew him, anyone who knew him, says that Freddie Steinmark "was the most spiritual person I e'er met."
Finn Wittrock, who resembles Freddie in size and looks, said that to play Freddie he read "Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story" by Jim Dent (the film is based on the book) and "I Play to Win" written past Freddie himself and published in 1971. Then Wittrock said at the printing twenty-four hours for the film, "Acting is where your enquiry meets your imagination; you do the reading then y'all allow your imagination bring it to life." You also have to railroad train hard, and railroad train Wittrock did.
Aaron Eckhart, who plays Coach Royal, is in the opening scenes of the film every bit an elderly man (in what looks like a plaster of Paris mask.) A reporter is interviewing him and it becomes obvious that he is having memory problems because he hardly reacts to the journalist's questions. She asks Coach Majestic nigh the several "All American" football game players he had coached over his long career and he says, "Freddie Steinmark." When she protests that he was non designated "All American" Coach Purple'due south eyes low-cal up and the story begins. Eckhart told usa at the press day that in his enquiry well-nigh Coach Royal he discovered that the passenger vehicle never forgot Freddie even as his Alzheimer's worsened; Freddie was Omnibus Majestic'due south "All American" even if you don't find him on any lists.
Freddie'southward mother Gloria (played by Robin Tunney), now in her 90s, visited the set every bit did Freddie's blood brother. Eckhart said she was in that location when they shot the locker room scene and he had to tell the squad about Freddie's status. It was a sad moment but he felt the brunt of doing it well in her presence.
Angelo Pizzo, who wrote "Rudy" and "Hoosiers" (my all-time favorite sports movie), scripted "My All American" and directed. He admits that he likes exploring regional stories and understanding how important they are to the local culture. And this is what you have to consider when taking in "My All American." Steinmark was never an NFL role player; he was small-scale, he was local, and he was a great kid. ("Hoosiers" is on the National Flick Registry at the Library of Congress.)
I had to ask Pizzo about making a football movie in the rather anti-football climate of today, especially with and then many concussions and encephalon injuries. He explained that though the helmets wait similar they are from the 60s they were especially made to protect the players. So he said that the film is almost Freddie and his character, his spirit rather than the futurity of football game.
It's obvious that Pizzo knows how to accept the emotional temperature of a story, like football game in Texas, which is like a faith, and translates it amazingly well for the screen to make sure that it volition be rated "BK" – Bring Kleenex. Lots of information technology. "My All American" is his directing debut and he enjoyed the whole process, including his office in casting the football players (some of whom are related to Freddie's teammates, and making certain they memorized over 100 plays that Freddie made famous in his short college career. Pizzo and the actors all commented on how challenging it was to picture show in 100 caste heat and humidity in Texas.
Watching "My All America" was similar watching 1950s Television set, information technology is just so wholesome. And it seems from all accounts that this is how Freddie lived his life. Information technology'south all very sweetness and in this solar day of grit crusted action films (remember "Mad Max: Fury Route"), it's taking the adrenaline level down a notch. Several notches. Despite the slightly suggestive scene in the trailer betwixt Freddie and Linda, nothing happens except yous know that they are headed to the altar. Alas, this never happens. Freddie survived months longer than others with his kind of cancer, and on the day when he and Linda were to be married in his infirmary room, 18 months later on his surgery, Freddie fell into a blackout never to regain consciousness. (This office is not in the picture show; if it had been included you'd need a box of Kleenex.)
Freddie was a Catholic Christian and his Catholicism is woven into the fabric of the film. Freddie never proselytized in his life and neither does the film. Going to daily Mass was but natural for him and so it is in the film: natural. The film shows him struggling after his leg is amputated; it was a hard thing to accept. Then he was human being, afterward all.
Freddie remains in the hearts of those who knew him or just know about him. To this twenty-four hours UT Austin Longhorns touch a memorial plaque of Freddie on their way onto the field before each domicile game, hoping for a little assistance from above.
It's hard to imagine anyone like Freddie beating upwards his girl friend or abusing drugs or breaking the law in any way. I am and so tired of hearing about the latest sports scandal and violence against women. We could sure use a Freddie today. Was Freddie a saint? Mayhap, just it's hard to think that this is what he was afterward, some kind of celebrity or honor. He just wanted to play football game and win. That his life touched so many people and continues to exercise and so today is a testament to his family and how he lived.
"My All American" will motion you to tears fifty-fifty though you probably never heard of Freddie Steinmark (at showtime I thought they had made a mistake and meant Roger Staubach because my knowledge of football is quite limited). See it and allow yourself be inspired. Then have a moment to mourn this fine young man and what he might have become. Then let your tears plough to joy and gratitude considering though he was with us but for a while, hither we are watching a motion-picture show about his short, precious life, almost 45 years later.
"My All American" is what they mean when they say, "Instead of cursing the darkness, plough on some calorie-free.
Source: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/sisterrosemovies/2015/11/my-all-american-celebrating-the-freddie-steinmark-story/
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