![]() ![]() In Annie Hall, Allen’s Oscar-winning romantic comedy, the big meet-cute between Diane Keaton’s title character and Allen’s Alvy Singer happens after playing mixed doubles with their friends. He has two movies where tennis shows up most prominently and strategically: in one as a drop-shot-delicate character device and in another as a great big overhead smash of a thematic metaphor. Woody Allen’s presence on this list is inevitable. McEnroe (with Shia LaBeouf as tennis’s premier brat John McEnroe), Clueless (where it’s inadvisable to send objects flying at a new nose), Bee Movie (in which animated honeybee Jerry Seinfeld endures a particularly harrowing experience on the court), and The Power of the Dog (featuring Thomasin McKenzie as cinema’s chirpiest chair umpire), here are the 12 best examples of the microgenre. With apologies to runners-up Bachelor Party (featuring Tom Hanks sending balls soaring out of the court like he’s Ted Williams), Borg vs. It’s not crucial, but in ranking the best of the tennis scenes committed to film, the quality comes in helpful for tiebreakers. Occasionally, great tennis scenes give good tennis form, too. Tennis scenes are therefore convenient, relatable, and character-building: screenwriting gold. ![]() Plus, unlike sports that require loads of equipment, facilities, or experience, any two people can play tennis at a public park, a recreational center, or someone’s Beverly Hills backyard if they’re so fortunate. Tennis scenes can crop up everywhere from broad comedies to sinister thrillers, and they tell us a lot about the characters involved and their relationships to one another: Are they selfish with a racquet? Reckless? Confident? Is one player letting the other win, hinting at a yet-to-be-fully explored attraction? Or is the competition cutthroat, representative of an otherwise stifled tension felt by one or both sides? The stop-and-start nature of the activity means these characters can still deliver rapid-fire dialogue in between shots, but it’s the body language that speaks volumes. ![]() It’s the tennis scene we should be talking about. But to disregard cinematic tennis for this reason would be to underestimate its power as a game particularly well-suited for scenes. Last year’s King Richard - overshadowed as its legacy is post- Slap - is one of the rare examples of a movie that forefronts the game in the same way a baseball movie like The Natural or Field of Dreams or a football movie like Rudy or The Longest Yard revolves around their respective sports. ![]() There’s a misperception, however, that tennis isn’t a good movie sport because there haven’t been that many great tennis movies. But at its core, tennis is about individuals, which is why it lends itself surprisingly well to the movies. Granted, there are ways to play tennis in teams, from doubles to Billie Jean King’s long-standing dream of making World Team Tennis one of our major sports. Tennis is a sport of personal intensity and triumph. Pictures/YouTube, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, and MGM Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Warner Bros. The very gruesome conditions in which she was working made the very scene extremely uncomfortable for her physically.Hollywood is short on good tennis movies, but that doesn’t mean tennis isn’t a good movie sport. The pain happened to be the fact that she was wearing jeans. The actress had a scene with Meyers that required both of them to be soaking wet, drenched in water. “I mean, getting fully wet and drenched, especially when you’re wearing jeans, is like the most unpleasant thing, especially when you’re all nice and toasty, and they’re like, ‘We’re going to dump buckets of water on you.’ At first I was like, ‘I could just get wet in the rain.’ They were like, ‘We have to make you drenched.’ I really hated my costumer that day. Although the actress has done a lot of explicit scenes, one, in particular, was so bad that she just couldn’t help despising everyone around her, especially Allen. Scarlett Johansson worked with Woody Allen on Match Point where she played Nola Rice alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Chris Wilton. Scarlett Johansson Did Not Like A Steamy Scene In Match Point ![]()
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