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In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
The year is 2018. There is no crime and there are no more wars. Corporations are now the leaders of the world, as well as the controllers of the people. A violent futuristic game known as Rollerball is now the recreational sport of the world, with teams representing various areas competing for the title of champion. The defending championship team, the Houston team led by the determined ten-year veteran Johnathan E., is looking to repeat as champions. However, Bartholomew, the sinister corporate head, wants Johnathan to retire, even though he is the most respected athlete of his time. Johnathan's rebellious quest will not come out with complications, both for him and his teammates, after he decides to continue playing despite Bartholomew's threats.
That is Rollerball, an accurate view of the spectacle that sports would become. It's basically full contact Roller Derby. James Caan plays the star who wants out. The best part of the movie is the action scenes, including the thirty minute final match scene where the other team is literally trying to kill Caan's character, on orders from the head of the league. If not for the final scene, the movie probably would never have gotten the reputation that it has. The rest of the movie doesn't reach that intensity, it is a typical story of power and excess that hasn't aged well. It's a prime candidate to be remade, it's unfortunate that they remake doesn't hold a ball to this, roller or any kind.
50 years in the future, Johnathan E (James Caan) is the biggest star of the biggest sport (Rollerball) in a world, run, not by governments but by Corporations.
Energy Corporation Director Bartholomew (John Houseman) throws a party for Johnathan E, Rollerballs biggest star. At the party Bartholomew asks Johnathan to retire from the game. The Corporation has begun to fear Johnathan's popularity. Johnathan is not the simpleton he appears, for, as Bartholomew continues to insist he retire, Johnathan steadily raises the volume of the TV special airing in the background on his behalf complete with cheering crowd noise. As this conversation (between Bartholomew and the rising crowd noise) goes on, thru a window, you can see party guests burning down the trees outside with a flame-gun. Finally Bartholomew nearly yells, "You can be stopped Johnathan". During the entire scene Director Bartholomew has his back turned to the window completely unaware of the scene outside. He doesn't need to see it.
Corporate Director Bartholomew spells it out clearly, "We have eliminated war", "We have eliminated disease, and hunger" - we simply ask to be allowed to make executive decisions. Trying to convince Johnathan to retire from Rollerball, he says, "It's an ugly social spectacle. It's a nasty brutal game. It serves it's purpose. It teaches the futility of individual effort." Unable to win Johnathan's cooperation, the Corporation rigs the game so he will lose. On the track Johnathan makes an amazing individual triumph against all odds.
I assumed Johnathan's triumph heralded regime change (I'm going along with the movie here). In fact, at the end, you can see a dejected Bartholomew sitting behind the protective glass of the arena, and in the glass you can see a reflection of the Corporate Logo down on the track surrounded by flames. One reviewer compared the scene at the dinner party to the last supper.
Younger audiences miss the complete 'regime change' angle to the story I think. It may seem too hard to believe. At the same time, when the movie came out, some had a problem believing corporations could become as powerful as they are portrayed here (at least according to the man introducing this on Turner Classic movies). Is this truism true? Are corporations more influential than they were in 1975? Unfortunately (for working Americans), corporations in America have less influence now than they did then.
I was rooting for Johnathan all the way in the movie. But I was left to wonder if regime change was going to be a good thing. Is Johnathan E Hero or Agent of Decline?
At least one reviewer's noted: in the future sport Rollerball, sport is used to curb individualism. In the real world, sport has come to promote it. And the idea there's no point to collective action. Depending upon who we are of course, we are on our own. Just the way we like it.
Perhaps it's a testament to our conditioning (and this movie is part and parcel to that?): few see Johnathan E in other than the heroes role.
The players on roller skates can use force against one another but to attack a motorbike rider or a roller skater who has fallen to the ground is a foul and punished by three minutes out of the arena. If injured a player can be rescued by medics and replaced by a substitute. a5c7b9f00b
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