Foxcatcher

Alyson Nervous Schwa wrote: »

This is quite the movie. Tatum and Carell are excellent, really both giving outstanding performances.

Weirdly they show the guys watching the UFC in 1988 though, not sure how they make a mistake like that. Aside from that very impressed. Du Pont was one creepy man.

I was already an Olympic and WORLD Champion before I met du Pont. The director took my 1985 World Title away in the film. I was not emotionally fragile as critics suggest. I didn't move to Pennsylvania to wrestle for Foxcatcher. I took an assistant coaching job at Villanova. I never looked up to duPont as a mentor, leader, father figure. He was a lot dirtier the first time I met him and he was drunk. He told me he would have nothing to do with Villanova which was the only reason I went there. du Pont was a repulsive sickening freak. I could barely stand looking at him. I never touched him except for a photo at the hall of fame and when I threw him in a headlock for a documentary. I never showed him any moves or taught him anything about wrestling. I never coached him in a wrestling match. I never read any speech he gave me. I never dyed my hair.

Dave was my older brother, not a father-figure. After I won the NCAA's and Dave took 2nd, Dave started asking me about technique and calling himself Mark Schultz's brother. I was a 3x NCAA Champion. Dave won once. After 1986 I started beating Dave in practice consistently. I never worked out in the new wrestling complex duPont built in the film. If du Pont ever slapped me I'd have knocked his head off. I never wrestled after Dave moved onto Foxcatcher Farms. I was doing Jiu-Jitsu at BYU. Dave was never a head coach anywhere. I was a Division I University Head Coach for 6 years. Dave was intelligent but no more than me. Just coz I wasn't filling the silence with superfluous noise all the time doesn't mean I was inarticulate. I earned a masters degree with a 3.6 gpa. I'm a corporate speaker and life coach.

The movie doesn't show hardly any of my victories. It focuses on only my losses. The personalities and relationships between the characters in the film are primarily fiction and somewhat insulting. Leaving the audience with a feeling that somehow there could have been a sexual relationship between duPont and I is a sickening and insulting lie. I told Bennett Miller to cut that scene out and he said it was to give the audience the feeling that duPont was encroaching on your privacy and personal space. I wasn't explicit so I didn't have a problem with it. Then after reading 3 or 4 reviews interpreting it sexually, and jeopardizing my legacy, they need to have a press conference to clear the air, or I will.


Many say du Pont was insane or crazy. He had cocaine psychosis which cleared up in jail. He always knew what he was doing. He was so arrogant he bragged to me once he could get away with murder. He was also fighting a lawsuit at the same time as the murder trial to try to prove he had the mental capacity to control and manage his own money when his family tried to get him committed to take control of his money. It set up a dynamic where on the one hand he's saying he's insane in the criminal case and competent enough to handle is monetary affairs. The insanity plea was 100% fiction. During the trial he was wheeled into court every day. His hair and beard were grown out. Then he was convicted and he dropped the act. The day he was sentenced he walks in and out of court un-aided without a wheelchair, was clean shaven, and spoke for the first time. What he said made perfect sense considering his arrogance. He said "I want to say sorry to Dave's kids for any inconvenience". Ha! INCONVENIENCE! PERFECT