The Gridiron Gang is a movie that was released September 15, 2006. This movie was based on a true story starring Dewayne Johnson (The Rock) as Sean Porter. The movie tells the story of a counselor at a juvenile detention facility desperately looking for a way to make a difference; he and his co-worker Malcolm Moore (Xzibit) devise a plan to teach discipline and responsibility through the game of football. They only had four weeks before the start of the season to put together a competitive team. This season would test their minds, bodies, and spirits, but would teach them how to work well with others and to always respect one another. It tells the story of The Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season. I chose this movie to reflect on because
Is High School football a sport, or is it more than that to some people? I’ve learned that the book is more sociological, which means that it focused on our human society of racial issues and also emphasizes the economy and the divide between the wealthy residents of one city versus the more working-class denizens of another are all subjects that are given an in-depth examination. This is more of the main or focal point of the whole book and in not so much in the movie. Although Bissinger's story is a true-life recounting of the 1988 football season of the Permian High School team, it reads like fiction and even though I believe his book is superior, the theatrical adaptation still stands apart as one of the great football movies ever to see in theaters. In the movie it was that team unit that was most significant in the development of the tale. Almost 80 – 90% of the book is in the film but there still are some differentiated contrasts found in the book in comparison to the movie. It has the intensity and the realism that kids were and are and also captures the...
Remember the Titans is a movie about a high school football team that is diligently trying to win a state championship. The main obstacle that is in the way of them working together and getting the state championship is the fact that their team has both black and white male players. Today, it would be common for us to play with interracial people but in the year nineteen seventy-one it was not common at all. It was decided that Coach Boone (an African American), would be the head coach for the new football team at T.C. Williams High School. Coach Boone asks Coach Yoast, the former coach, to stay and be his assistant coach. He agrees and the white players also join the team along with the blacks. The team goes to Gettysburg College for camp where none of the teammates are comfortable with each other. Eventually, the team finally gets along at the camp and color is no longer an issue with the teammates.
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
Gallman, J. Matthew. "Gangs Of New York (Film)." Journal Of American History 90.3 (2003): 1124-1126. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 2 May 2014.
The popular dancing movie, Footloose, was directed by Herbert Ross in 1984. Craig Brewer, produced a remake of Footloose in 2011. Both of the original Footloose and the remake, have multiple differences that split them apart. Although they follow the same theme, the sequence of events that took place happened in different orders and well as some characters were not present in the remake as they were in the original. The acting, dancing, and setting were varied slightly but it followed the same trend as the original. Directors Herbert Ross and Craig Brewer, directed the same film, while Craig Brewer made the film more modern, while keeping the film following the same trend.
"Mrs. Robinson, you are trying to seduce me," says Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman). The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols in 1967 is an influential satire/comedy film about a recent East Coast college graduated who finds himself alienated and aimless in the changing, social and sexual general public of the 1960s, and questioning the values of society. The theme of the film is of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, mis-directed, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, self-indulgent, and discredited older generation (that finds stability in “plastics”) that I found to be quite clear and understanding, while also capturing the real spirit of the times and allows America's youth to perceive onscreen an image of themselves which they can both identify with and emulate. The Graduate is a significant film even today due to its use of abstract camera angles, telephoto lenses, excellent cinematography, and great acting. Few visual effects were used, however, matting and numerous point of view shots were used. These characteristics and the fabulous use of mis-en-scene, great writing and the era of the film all made The Graduate what it is today, magnificent.
Good afternoon class, today I will be discussing my chosen theme of prejudice and racism from the movie Remember the Titans. The scene I have selected is Gerry 's funeral, the final scene which concludes the movie. Gerry 's funeral displayed how not only the team, but the community of the Titans has overcome their differences regarding racism and prejudice. The three film techniques integrated throughout the scene I will be discussing are the developed use of a high angled shot showing the crowd, mid-shot of both coaches (Boone and Yoast), and a close up shot of two African American and white hands which are held together. Enabling the viewers to witness the integration of cultures and races, displaying the bond they now share. The camera while
The first challenge they take in the movie is trying to sustain a failing team. They just lost their sponsor and are officially broke, this will make them has to disband. Jimmy “Dodge” Connelly is the captain of the Bulldogs and like the rest of his team has no other skills except football. Dodge hears over the radio that 40,000 fans showed up at a Princeton game to see Carter Rutherford play, so he tries to recruit Carter to play for the Bulldogs to bring some of the fans to watch the Bulldogs play. Dodge’s plan works out, there are so many fans trying to
Remember the Titans is a film based on the true story of Coach Herman Boone, who tries to integrate a racially divided team. Throughout training camp and the season, Boone and Yoast 's black and white players learn to accept each other, to work together, and that football knows no race. As they learn from each other, Boone and Yoast also learn from them and in turn, the whole town learns from the team, the Titans. Thus, they are prepared to pursue the State Championship and to deal with and some adversity that threatens to effect their season.
What if I told you that I know the outcome of your life and where you will end up before you even know it? Wouldn’t you be scared? See for a regular person who has a supporting family around them this question will almost feel almost like a death sentence. Nobody wants anyone to judge them before they even go through life on what they will end up being.
Coach Herman Boone is the main African-American character in this film. He is a football coach who is brought in by the newly diversified T.C. Williams High School as a form of affirmative action. This character struggles throughout the movie with dealing with the prejudices of his players, of other football coaches, of parents, and even of the school board who hired him in order to try to create a winning football team. Another key black character is Julius Campbell. He plays a linebacker who ends up becoming best friends with a white linebacker on the team. He, too, struggles with prejudices from some of his teammates and people in the town because of the new desegregation of the team. The remaining black players on the T.C. Williams High School had very similar roles in the film. Petey Jones, Jerry Williams (quarterback), and Blue Stanton all are shown facing racial inequality by players, citizens, and even other football coaches. The attitudes of ...
Prior to watching the movie 12 Angry Men, I had little knowledge on what the movie was about. I was procrastinating on the assignment, I dreaded the thought of watching an hour and a half movie completely in black and white. I had even debated watching the remake, particularly because it was not in color. Although, once I sat down and began watching the original film, my perspective changed. As a matter of fact, I found some parts of the movie humorous. Furthermore, I feel that the movie has deep meaning, and lessons that can be learned. Specifically, lessons on ethics, and leadership in tough situations.
Similarly, the movie Rudy, shows how Rudy Ruttiger has overcame many obstacles and criticism in his life, and eventually fulfill his dream of becoming a Notre Dame football player. The main character, Rudy Ruttiger, has an unsupportive family. Throughout his life, his family told him that chasing his dream of playing football at Norte Dame is just waste of time and day dreami...
Director Lexi Alexander’s Green Street Hooligans begins with a brawl in the London underground but quickly cuts to Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood), a journalism student at Harvard, clearing out his dorm room; he has been expelled for drug possession and feels he can’t stand up for himself against the power of his roommates’ family; furthermore, to avoid telling his father, he flies to London to stay with his sister (Claire Forlani) and her husband (Marc Warren). Here Buckner meets the brawler we were introduced to in the first scene, Pete Dunham (Charlie Hunnam), the leader of the local football firm, the Green Street Elite. The GSE is a band of professional men that violently support the West Ham United Football Club, regularly mixing it up with rival firms in support of their own teams. As this story unfolds, Buckner realizes: “I’ve never lived closer to danger, but I've never felt safer. I've never felt more confident, and people could spot it from a mile away. And as for this, the violence? I gotta be honest - it grew on me. Once you've taken a few punches and realize you're not made of glass, you don't feel alive unless you're pushing yourself as far as you can go.’ (Wood) The events of this story lift Buckner to the point where he can face...
A genre is a type or category of film (or other work of art) that can be easily identified by specific elements of its plot, setting, mise en scène, character types, or style. (Goodykoontz, 2014) The gangster film is a sub-genre of the broader genre of crime film. A genre main objective is to classify the depiction of entertainment. The genre of my movie is a gangster film. My movie I chose was Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma.An update of the 1932 film, Scarface (1983) follows gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. (Scarface, 1983a)