^^ Yeah, it's just better to admit brilliance when you see it, and to show respect where it's warranted for all skaters, and accept that you understand your emotions are captured more fully by some skaters than by others, and that's okay. Quite often these days, fans love a whole slew of skaters who compete against each other, so in that case stomachs get tied up in knots, and we can't choose between the beautiful and variant flowers and colors that equally touch our hearts and souls. I hope everyone skates well. I'd love to see Canada win gold in the team comp, and P/C win gold in the individual. But I'm going to calm down any expectations for any discipline. And I'm so weary of the Russian ladies hype.
And Satoko is a beautiful gem, but her jumps are weak. Granted she's courageous and she looks like a magical hummingbird rotating so quickly (pre-rotations and all), as she hovers just over the ice.
The movie is nice, very well designed and mastered. Some parts are really interesting especially when Samuel Chouinard explains how some sequences were first created and then step by step modified.
Now, no one is fooled. Releasing such video 15 days prior the individual competitions seems a little fishy! I would have preferred to see a movie like this one released much earlier. Talking about the program, the choreography, the music choice, etc is perfectly fine by me. Now when a coach talks about "perfect score", I really wonder... Was she very well inspired to make this kind of comments, especially next to Olys? In the end, it makes me feel really uncomfortable. Several sequences really look like outrageous propaganda. The most ridiculous thing is Leanna Caron appearing here and there. She pretends to be judge in int'l competitions while being head of the Canadian fed! What a shame! The ISU should seriously change some rules.
The Canadian fed is obviously ready to to promote V/M at any cost. It's not new, they already did it last year but it seems they are ready to spend even more money this season. After the hearings, massive propaganda on social networks, ridiculous (not say hilarious) scores at Canadian Nat'l (widely promoted), it sounds like it's now time for a movie... What else should we expect by Feb. 19th?
^^ Well yes, it's definitely a promotional vid to pump up more enthusiasm and respect for their fp choice. I think it's honest how V/M feel in touch with the
Roxanne music and the story, as they were eager to come back in order to explore further growth and to go beyond the box of being thought of as 'lyrical' ice dancers. It's obviously a political push as well for V/M to present themselves as the ones to beat and not the other way around. And that's fine.
I'm not able to understand all the French, so I couldn't get the details of what M-F, Patch, and the other French speakers were saying. Dave Lease certainly bought into this whole presentation as he was gushing on TSL about the Montreal team and their strategy for V/M. If it's being done for V/M, it's being done for all the Montreal skaters, and so what we see overall is more of a comment on how Dubreuil/Lauzon and Haguenauer have joined forces to slay in the world of ice dance. Not 'slay' in an aggressive, violent sense, but in an incredibly powerful, uplifting and 'pushing the boundaries' sense. M-F and Patch have spoken before about the vision they had for building a rink/a camp/an aesthetic/a winning training strategy, and they have done so.
Haguenauer who knew D/L when they trained in France also had the unique vision and capacity to understand how European and North American aesthetics and approaches could be combined to create something new, fresh and exciting. P/C (with their remarkable gifts) were the perfect team to mold and to nurture under this fortuitous collaboration. With P/C's talent and the Montreal team behind them, P/C immediately vaulted to the top of the ice dance world. V/M had been mentored by D/L coming up as youngsters, and then after Sochi, V/M planned to work with D/L for shows until their thoughts turned to coming back for another Olympics. No doubt the way P/C took ice dance by storm under M-F/ Lauzon/ Haguenauer cemented V/M's thoughts of coming back for that competitive rush they missed and growth exploration they craved.
