Nadia (1984)
Actors:
Bozidar Smiljanic (actor),
Conchata Ferrell (actress),
Jonathan Banks (actor),
Christopher L. Stone (composer),
Talia Balsam (actress),
Carrie Snodgress (actress),
Vjenceslav Kapural (actor),
Bozidar Alic (actor),
Drago Klincic (miscellaneous crew),
Raymond Bridgers (editor),
Pat Starr (actress),
Dave Bell (producer),
Branka Strmac (actress),
Cintija Asperger (actress),
Carl Strano (actor),
Plot: Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10's in the Montreal Olympics.
Keywords: eating-disorder, gymnastic
Genres:
Drama,
Sport,
Quotes:
[Nadia fell off the beam twice during a gymnastics competition to the disgust of her trainers. She is sitting at the back of the bus on the way home, Bela goes and sits beside her]::Bela Karolyi: Don't cry about today.::Young Nadia Comaneci: I'm not crying. I never cry.::Bela Karolyi: You should. So that I can tell you not to. Nadia, the tragedy isn't that you fell. It's that you were the best and you didn't live up to it. You completely lost your concentration::Young Nadia Comaneci: It will never happen again.::Bela Karolyi: You're not serious about gymnastics::Young Nadia Comaneci: Yes, I am::Bela Karolyi: No you're not, you should quit::Young Nadia Comaneci: No.::Bela Karolyi: Did you see *anyone* as bad as you were today?::Young Nadia Comaneci: No.::Bela Karolyi: Neither did I. Quit!::Young Nadia Comaneci: No!::Bela Karolyi: Go back to doing cartwheels if you just want to play.::Young Nadia Comaneci: No! I want to be a champion!::Bela Karolyi: I have a confession to make to you. I've been playing too. When I first met you I only knew four sports. I wasn't even a real gymnastics coach So instead of teaching you what I don't know. I wanna teach you what I do know. I will teach you how to have a runner's strength. The cunning of a handball player, and how, like a boxer to be fearless of pain. Are you interested? [Nadia nods] I'm talking about a lot of work, total concentration, total committment, don't take up my time and then quit.::Young Nadia Comaneci: I'll never quit.::Bela Karolyi: No one has ever worked as hard as I'm going to work you.::Young Nadia Comaneci: I shall work.::Bela Karolyi: You do, and you will be the best in the world
[at the Olympic Games]::Bela Karolyi: Don't let *anyone's* reputation intimidate you. All it means is that they *used* to be good, they must prove that they still are.::[Ludmilla Turischeva performs the vault]::Older Nadia Comaneci: [to Teodora] They're still good.
[in an effort to help the Romanian team win, an injured Nadia decides to compete]::Older Nadia Comaneci: I will compete.::Bela Karolyi: I can't let you.::Older Nadia Comaneci: What does the team need to win?::Bela Karolyi: 9.9::Older Nadia Comaneci: Tell the judges I'm competing. Tell them.
[it's the end of the day - Teodora arrived at the school and performed a floor exercise for everyone - everyone has left except her and Nadia]::Young Teodora Ungureanu: You're the best here, aren't you?::[Nadia nods]::Young Teodora Ungureanu: I knew it. Are you jealous?::[Nadia shakes her head]::Young Teodora Ungureanu: Why not?::Young Nadia Comaneci: It was beautiful.
Older Teodora Ungureanu: [to Nadia] The Russians are going to win *again*.
Marta Karolyi: [helping Nadia warm up] Are you all right? [Nadia squirms] No, you're not all right. What did you eat last night? You went out, didn't you. How could you. Today of all days.::Older Nadia Comaneci: It won't matter.
Older Teodora Ungureanu: I took an olympic silver medal next to you and no-one even knows that I was there.::Older Nadia Comaneci: It's not my fault if people don't pay attention to you. I wish they would. I wish they would all go away and leave me alone.
Older Nadia Comaneci: It's not my fault if people don't pay attention to you.
Bela Karolyi: I wonder, wonder, wonder who the other cartwheeler was. [turns to look at Nadia] I think you know who it is. And I think that if you give her this card, she'll think about it and fill it out.
Bela Karolyi: She's getting *very* good.::Gheorge Comaneci: But will all this make her happy?::Bela Karolyi: You just saw her, I have to order her to stop.