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The much-awaited sports romance drama film ‘Challengers’ just recently hit $24 Million at the Global Box Office and more and more people are getting allured by this film!
If you have been living under a rock, ‘Challengers’ is about Tashi (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy turned coach, who turned Art (Mike Faist), her husband into a champion. But in order to overcome a losing streak, Art needs to face his ex-best friend and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend, Patrick (Josh O’Connor).
Needless to say, ‘Challengers’ has been dominating the whole internet, sparking discourse about all things ‘Challengers’ related from tennis to throuple jokes and the comeback of ‘erotic’ cinema.
Join us as we round up the three reasons why fans are head over heels for Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Challengers’.
Tennis can actually be… cool and sexy?
Although ‘Challengers’ is undoubtedly a sports film, it ingeniously utilizes the sport not just as a plot device but wraps the heart and soul of the story on the movements of the ball as it moves back and forth between Art and Patrick, masterfully orchestrated by Tashi.
So if you think you would be bored because of the sports aspect, these X (formerly Twitter) users would gladly beg to differ!
can we talk about how the game of tennis is used as an allegory for both obsession and love, and how the lines can quickly become blurred between the two? pat and art’s rivalry wasn’t born out of disdain, it was born out of desire. #Challengers pic.twitter.com/8IIahVd08O
— liyah (@izukiine) April 27, 2024
It’s fortunate that Luca chose tennis as the central focus of #Challengers, because the sports metaphor of a back-and-forth love triangle/throuple lobbing for each other’s attention would be lost if the film was about bowling. pic.twitter.com/NArdl2zpjC
— Some call me Jay (@paragonpostcard) April 26, 2024
The electrifying soundtrack!
It is an understatement to say that people are bananas over the score of the film. Different from the usual orchestral formula of recent blockbusters, ‘Challengers’ instead makes use of electronic music that captivates the audience from the very beginning, raises the stakes for every decision, and energizes every movement of the characters.
No thoughts, just Challengers soundtrack pic.twitter.com/JeWwLdHIMZ
— 𖤐 Bri 𖤐 (@BriAnimator_) April 29, 2024
me in the movie theater as soon as the challengers score started playing pic.twitter.com/dPK9aIQ1kg
— maria (@westsidesorry) April 27, 2024
As Fran Hoepfner of Variety put it, “Reznor and Ross’s score doesn’t just elevate the game; it elevates anything I do around my house while listening to it at full volume.”
