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what's up everyone
this is disney plus deets where we break
down everything you need to know about
your favorite disney plus movies and
series
i'm kenneth and i'm marcellus and not to
toot our own horns but we're pretty much
the biggest disney plus fans out there
no let's do it
that's right let's get into it
what would you say if i told you that
instead of making a video today
we're going to hop in a metal tube and
go hurtling down a mile long ice chute
at 90 miles per hour i'd say feel the
rhythm
feel the rhyme get on up it's bobsled
time
cool running yes dude
cool runnings will always have a place
in my heart yes same for me
every time i see it it just makes me
happy it's one of those feel-good films
shout out to jamaica the island has won
22 gold
35 silver and 21 bronze olympic medals
over the years
sadly none of them in bobsledding yet
hey
sometimes good things take time like for
example getting this movie made
producer don steele was blown away when
she read the cool running script
based on the true story of the 1988
jamaican olympic bobsled team the film
had already been green lit but then the
studio she worked for got sold
so she ended up leaving the company on
the cusp of greatness yet foiled at the
last second
what does that remind me of exactly and
that's where the film's title comes in
don still first came across the phrase
cool runnings on a jamaican beach where
it was printed on a t-shirt for sale
the movie had several working titles but
ultimately cool runnings was chosen
because it expresses
exactly what the team's journey was all
about the title cool runnings didn't
translate well everywhere
so alternates were used for example in
italy the film is called four below zero
in france it's rasta rocket but the
international release that meant the
most to the filmmakers was
guess where i see where you're going
here
director john turtletop says that was my
number one barometer
that as silly as we may have gotten and
as loose with the fact as we may have
gotten
did jamaicans look at the film with the
same amount of pride
that they looked at the actual jamaican
bobsled team and they do
they do they love it just like the
characters in the movie who didn't give
up on their olympic dreams
don still wouldn't give up on cool
runnings she refused to stop until the
film became a reality
even if she had to produce it herself
and speaking of not stopping
leon stars as darice bannock the track
star whose determination to be an
olympian takes him from jamaica
to calgary to compete as a bobsled racer
now i gotta get a little serious
okay sir my heart ripped in half
when i saw him fall you look up and you
see it's like oh
no somebody else is going and you see
the number you see number 30 running and
it's just he's going already in the
distance and your dream is just
feels like it's over i've been there
theresa i've been there wait a minute
you was on track today
yeah theresa's best friend sanka coffee
provides the film's comic relief which
is appropriate because he's played by
comic dougie doug
it did doug was still's first choice for
the role she couldn't picture sanka as
anyone else i'm a super fan of dougie
doug hilarious standing
hilarious junior bevel is played by raul
d lewis and he wasn't even supposed to
be auditioning for the movie
or acting at all he was working for the
casting director
and he was reading opposite the actors
and they just loved him so much they
were like okay
you got to be in the film can that
happen to me malik yoga who played yule
brenner
wanted to land a role in cool running so
badly he wrote an original reggae song
about jamaican bobsledding for his
audition
it ended up in the movie as well as on
the film's soundtrack
malik even got a record deal after the
movie premiered
now our team is leaving jamaica and
they're heading over to canada they're
on their way
love this shot osanka coming out with
his locks frozen
that's not real frost and senka's locks
the hair makeup crew used dry ice to
create senka's look for this scene
which was filmed on location in jamaica
the ice cream truck wasn't actually
refrigerated so dougie doug had to act
cold while sweating it out in the metal
truck
the filmmakers used the real olympic
bobsled track at canada's olympic park
in calgary alberta
as the location for all the winter
scenes it got down to 25 degrees below
zero while filming with 40 mile per hour
winds
and i thought i had a problem when you
kept turning down the ac to 60 all
summer
director john turtletop who you might
know from the national treasure family
as well as why you were sleeping and
disney's the kid
was all about authenticity especially in
the bobsledding scene
the bobsled sequences were all filmed on
the real olympic bobsled here which is
1475 meters long
just short of a mile and 188.2 meters
high and all of that is frozen
solid ice just like my feelings for you
frozen
you know bobsledding is a seriously
dangerous sport so the cavs had to go
through intensive strength training
they lifted weights trained in rowing
and even had a track coach to help them
learn to push
the 400 pound sled okay john candy
listen he came in and he said i am going
to do this i need to redeem myself
and i need to make sure that they know
how to bobsled
cool runnings isn't just about a bunch
of unlikely guys trying a crazy sport
it's about passion determination and
chasing your dreams
executive producer christopher
melidandry says of the real 1988
jamaican bobsled team
they set out on a journey that everyone
told them they were foolish for trying
they never listened to the disparaging
comments that were made along the way
this is a classic movie about the
underdog everyone counts you out
everyone believes that you're not gonna
do it you don't have what it takes
this is different right but they have
the audacity to even come in
and try to become a what jamaican
bobsled team i love when they decided
you know they're like what we can be is
jamaican and that's what people love
when you just be yourself
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care of yourselves and the planet and
we'll see you next time
marcellus and ken signing off cool
runnings everybody
cool running would you join a bobsled
team with me you know again
that's something i really have to think
about i'm gonna get back i am very
offended about your hesitation i'm gonna
have my people call your people
you