Based on a true story, The Foxcatcher, directed by Bennett Miller, who directed Point Blank and Capote, I admired and enjoyed the wrestlers, played by two of the most handsome men in the film, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffolo, but it was Steve Carell’s Dupont that really intrigued me.
Carell was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar at the 87th Academy Awards for his performance in “Foxcatcher”. It must be said that Carell’s Dupont forms a gloomy scene in the film, as if a dark cloud follows him wherever he is, but it is not Carell’s acting that I want to try to analyze in this article, but the psychological flaws of Carell’s Dupont.
What led to the destruction of DuPont?
Recently, in re-reading the Tao Te Ching, I’ve always wondered if Du Pont’s life would have progressed differently if he had read it.
“John du Pont was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and grew up with so much power and money in his eyes that his outlook on life and the world was such that money and power were all-powerful, probably because of the previous money and power. The inability to do anything led to his extreme ego. It wasn’t enough that he used his money to attract Mark Schultz, he had to use his money to attract Dave Schultz again, Mark said that Dave wasn’t the kind of guy who could be impressed by money, DuPont didn’t believe him. In the end, DuPont was proven right.
The money itself is not at fault, one side is a professional player, the other is a sponsor, which is perfectly normal, but if you, the sponsor, force yourself to be the savior, there will definitely be problems. At this point I wonder if DuPont had understood that “to be born without having, to work without relying on, to grow without slaughtering, is the so-called XuanDe”, to produce and nurture all things without taking them for oneself, to be the growth of all things without dominating them, would his life have been more open?
It is true that Mark and Dave, the championship pair of brothers, came to the DuPont home because of the attractive price DuPont was offering. But for DuPont, they came to satisfy their desire to be wrestling coaches. So there was a disparity in the perception of the relationship.
To Mark and Dave, DuPont is just the Kingpin, and training can be left to his discretion, but life is still his own, and so is his will. In DuPont’s eyes, both Mark and Dave are his private property, and Mark’s decision to let the team change the training schedule is a challenge to his authority, as well as Dave’s frustration at spending weekends with his kids and family. He wanted to be Mark’s coach and father, but felt all kinds of discomfort when Mark really loved him as a father. With Mark, he was condescendingly “loving” from start to finish, if there was ever a moment of “love” at all. “Du Pont didn’t understand the principle of “growing without slaughtering.
He asked Mark to recite “Ornithologist, philatelist, philanthropist” over and over again on the plane, which Mark did, but DuPont went along with it to the end. Ornithologist, philatelist, philanthropist,” or DuPont was extremely proud of his status as an “ornithologist. Whether philatelist has an implication here is unknown, but Mark’s behavior toward Dave suggests that he has been “philanthropically” philanthropically as well.
All of du Pont’s actions were designed to showcase. This was a problem in the family of origin, where the more the mother thought the wrestling coach was inferior, the more DuPont had to prove to her that he could do it.
In other words, the family is not good at “underdog” behavior. The superior is good as water, and water is good for all things without competition. Neither mother nor son understood this Eastern philosophy.
All of du Pont’s actions were designed to showcase. This was a problem in the family of origin, where the more the mother thought the wrestling coach was inferior, the more DuPont had to prove to her that he could do it.
In other words, the family is not good at “underdog” behavior. The superior is good as water, and water is good for all things without competition. Neither mother nor son understood this Eastern philosophy.
Why did DuPont kill Dave in the end? The reason is in that TV interview: “As a coach, I want to develop young athletes, not only on a physical level, but also on a spiritual level.” “My athletes, they think of me as a brother, mentor, father and leader.
He placed himself in a position of supremacy, and he wanted all his athletes to look up to him and worship him and be his father and brother in any way he liked. But in the case of Mark, he found it impossible to take Dave’s place. He was determined to drive a wedge between the brothers, and he made some progress at first, but in the end he still couldn’t really replace Dave. As it turns out, Dave is Mark’s true brother, father, mentor, and coach, so when DuPont sees the cold, hard truth that Dave has not only acquired all of his status with ease, but also has a loving family, jealousy drives him crazy, and since he can’t replace him, he has to kill him.
“Heaven and earth can be long and lasting because they are not self-generated, so they can live forever. That is why saints live after their own bodies and before their own bodies, and outside their own bodies. Is it not because they are selfless and evil? So it can be selfish.” That’s why heaven and earth can last, because they are not selfish. Therefore, wise leaders always put their own interests behind them, so that people are willing to accept their leadership, and they are not greedy for external things, so that they can have a better state of existence. Isn’t it because they are not selfish that heaven and earth and the saints who emulate them are able to better fulfill their selfishness of being respected and safe?
Du Pont, who wanted to be a leader and a father, could have achieved his dream if he had followed the Tao Te Ching.
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