“I still remember talking to him and saying, Roger, I’m going to open this movie with you saying, ‘I don’t know why you want to make this a movie,’” says Austin Bragg.įor his part, Mr. The first words of dialogue in the movie were inspired by the Bragg Brothers’ initial phone conversation with the real Roger Sharpe. Sharpe (played by Mike Faist from the 2021 remake of “West Side Story”). Most of the movie consists of reenacted scenes of the younger version of Mr. Sharpe (portrayed by Dennis Boutsikaris from “Better Call Saul”) talks to an off-screen interviewer. “Pinball,” written and directed by the Braggs, is stylized as a faux documentary. The movie is a classic story about the little guy standing up against an unjust system. He had one shot to demonstrate to city council members that it’s a game of skill. Sharpe set up two pinball machines inside City Hall. In a bold gambit to change New York’s law, Mr. It’s also about his obsession with the venerable arcade game. It recounts the writer’s budding romance with the woman who became his wife. The often-comedic “Pinball,” available in select theaters and to stream starting March 17, is about the two great loves of Mr. In 1976, an unlikely hero emerged to champion the game: a writer for GQ magazine named Roger Sharpe. Authorities declared them games of chance and thus a form of gambling. Here in New York, police confiscated and destroyed pinball machines in Prohibition-like raids. The game was once illegal in many cities – seen as a hotbed of immorality and a front for the mob. The brothers’ debut feature film, “Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game,” is based on a true story about trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with P and that stands for pinball. “They are notoriously difficult, especially those old electromechanical machines.” You can add pinball machines to the list,” says Austin Bragg, shivering slightly while sitting next to his older brother at an outdoor cafe in New York on a chilly February afternoon. “The old adage is, in film, don’t work with animals and children. When Austin and Meredith Bragg co-directed their first movie, the brothers learned something that isn’t taught at film school.
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