When Billie Beat Bobby tells the story of the events leading up to the famous match between women's tennis champion Billie Jean King and over the hill Bobby
Riggs. It was big sports and sociological newsin the 70s and promoted like the
match horse race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral.
Billie Jean King was in her prime back then and took her game and her opponents seriously. Bobby Riggs was a ranking pro back in the 40s but was
now a middle aged sports hustler be it tennis, poker, tiddlywinks, whatever.
Riggs got the idea to challenge ranking women pros and make the challenge
boorish saying a midddle aged over the hill male player could beat the best
the female sex had to offer. It was the battle of the sexes as t had never been
fought before.
For Riggs it was a joke and he treated it as such. When he beat Margaret Court
it was because she didn't and should have taken him seriously.
This film reminded me a lot of the Rocky film where heavyweight champion
Sly Stallone trains to fight the fight of his life against the Russian challenger
Dolph Lundgren. Lundgren trained on borscht and steroids. The results were
predictable.
Holly Hunter as Billie Jean King and Ron Silver as Bobby Riggs fitted quite
nicely in their parts.
For all you female dreamers out there, this male recommends this film highly.
