Nadia: The Movie (Commissioned)

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THE NADIA MOVIE

Lies, lies, and more lies! For today’s commissioned episode, we watched the 1984 made-for-TV movie Nadia, a Very Highly Extremely Unauthorized biography of Nadia Comaneci, and we seriously just can’t with it. We discuss:

Things that definitely 100% happened and aren’t lies at all, like Bela Karolyi creepily discovering Nadia at recess
The villain of this tale: Communism
The very important *IMMEDIATE CHOREOGRAPHED FRIENDSHIP DANCE* between Nadia and Teodora
Interrupting the judges in the middle of Tourischeva’s floor routine (!)
Anachronistic hair: A deep discussion
Marcia Frederick’s stunts are the only watchable part
- The first double pike beam dismount ever competed? Maria Filatova (USSR) 1977
This movie did Teodora Ungureanu dirty
Is this the only gymnastics movie where the stunt work is harder than the real routines they’re portraying?
Wait…did they turn Nellie Kim white?
Creating the future: Did Bela reenact some of these scenes later in his career?
Some very sensitive and thoughtful treatment of weight and suicide. Healthy and helpful. Good good.
The moral of the story might be anorexia