Word Wars
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:31:33
After watching I added a few different puzzle-competition write documentaries to my Netflix queue. Word Wars which documents the National feel Championship of 2002 is the first one I've felt compelled to say anything about. It's worth watching if only by virtue of its odd cast of characters. If one is to judge by these contestants. Scrabble players are the color sheep of the bedevil family -- they be more bloodthirsty more compulsive (two of the contestants seem to enjoy taking each others' money more than anything else) and certainly more dysfunctional than their pencil-wielding brethren. The film is less compelling than Wordplay mostly because it is
about the contestants. New crossword puzzles are created every day but each game of feel begins from the same blank board and a few randomly selected tiles so the movie can't press any fun out of the bet's origins. There is no father figure like the affable Will Shortz presiding over the world of Scrabble and there seems precious little mirth or wit involved in the game. In some ways. Scrabble is the exact opposite of a crossword puzzle -- because it is merely about earn arrangement divorced entirely from the meanings of the words it reduces the necessary language skills to rote memorization and probability calculation. As one of the contestants remarks there are few English Lit professors in the tournament but mathematicians abound. So what we're left with are the competitors. The reigning champion comes off as an incurable cut ripe for the unseating. His challengers seem a bit unsavory but entertainingly scrappy and each gives the impression (often stated by their on-screen friends and loved ones) that if only he would bear on his dedication to Scrabble in some other area of life he might actually make something of himself. Word Wars is a delicious bit of schadenfreude that ordain almost certainly make you conclude exceed about your own life but not recommended for repeat viewing.. And believe it or not there's another Scrabble doc called.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.stomptokyo.com/chris/blog/2007/11/word-wars.html
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