Million Dollar Arm Essay

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Million Dollar Arm a Disney Film presents the story of Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. J.B. Bernstein a struggling sports agent, decides to try and recruit indian cricket players to become pitchers for the MLB. Singh and Patel meet Bernstein through his Million Dollar Arm contest. The two winners of the contestant would be taken to America, there they would train and try out infront of professional team scouts.Singh and Patel the two winners of the competition are taken to America, with no prior experiences out of their own village. For the duration of the movie, the two men struggle to acclimate to the culture of America. One scene in the movie displays them not knowing how to get onto an escalator and shows them purposely sticking their hand in a closing …show more content…

Native Americans have had a different ideology than Americans and struggled to become apart of the society, as did Rinku and Dinesh. Not only did they all feel like outsiders, they were also prejudged. While Singh and Patel were practicing one day, the american baseball players decided to make a racial comment at the two, causing a scuffle. Native Americans have faced the same bigoted comments and looked at is if they were from a different planet.
The main themes of the film are culture and exceptionalism. To Bernstein India was the new frontier of athletes, being the first one to face the new frontier comes the many hardships. He struggles to make business deals and have his operations run smoothly. He realizes to be successful there he must act as if he was one. All

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