just as the movie shows, everything around me is just a backdrop, a supplement to my race against myself, my own times, and my fellow runners. This movie captures all of the aspects of a race and the qualities of a true runner.
This is a great movie that tells a universal story. Dream big, and when you do anything- give it all you've got. Steve Prefontaine, if this movie is accurate, was not only a great athlete, but he was also a great man. This movie, though no blockbuster by any lengths, is a great film to showcase that talent. The rest of the cast goes to build a solid movie that is crafted into a sort of documentary style film half of the time, and a straight-cut movie the rest of the time. It's a great story that can be used in any context, outside of sports altogether. Even for people who know nothing about the sport itself, but Prefontaine's death was a tragedy anyway you look at it.
Though I think the car accident is not that good –maybe just because the director didn’t want to show that sad scenario to us –there are still one scene really impressed me. When the funeral ceremony was hold in the stadium, the hearse containing Pre’s corpse ran on track in Oregon, by the speed that Prefontaine running, I deeply felt the greatness of sports and serenity of life.
IV. Tin Cup
Tin Cup is not only the protagonist Roy McAvoy’s nickname, but also represents the top champion of Golf Game. More than these, I think it is also a giant golf metaphor for life, about how taking risks -- no matter how many times you fail -- is always worth it. The success in this movie is the spirit to pursue the endless prefect skill and the perseverance to win the battle with yourself.
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...a by herself and choose what she likes to do or who to love without help of prince. If Penny lived at present society, she would have been live a happier life with more supports from her husband and all feminists in America.
By the way, this year, 2014, is the Year of Horse in Chinese Traditional Lunar Calendar. It is very glad to enjoy a movie of Horse in Year of Horse.
VI. Money Ball
Nowadays, it is a statistician's delight that more and more kinds of sports use statistics as a tool to run their teams better. We sport management major also set statistics as a based required curriculum. When you watch NBA games you will find stats is around every corner in games. Though I also know little about baseball, I still have heard it said that the nerdiest sport of all is baseball. I believe that to be true. If a math major is going to be interested in a
Sweet Sweet Runner, a 2010 short video by Rashid Johnson begins with the image of a middle-aged, bespectacled black man. The viewer is given momentary flashes, accompanied by the sound of sirens, that quickly defines what he is wearing (a fresh red jacket and running pants), the type of environment he is in, as well as his expression as he looks out onto the city streets (fig 1). The video then flashes back in time, showing him emerging from behind the glass of a door of a New York City apartment building. We are voyeurs, watching him from behind a tree, and later, a windowpane across the street. After a brief warm up period where he raises and drops his shoulders, rotates his neck, and swings a few punches into the cold air, he bends down, touches his toes and takes off running. The video alternates between shots of New York architecture, our runner, and various activities taking place in the streets. We hear the wail of an ambulance and then see it race by. A pair walks an excited dog, and another duo zips by on expensive bicycles clad in body-hugging racing gear. It quickly becomes clear that it is a cold morning in an affluent Manhattan neighborhood.
They race against themselves: to conquer their wills, to transcend their weaknesses, to beat back their nightmares" (603). This quotation shows that running is not always competition, but it helps runners overcome their
... a richer man and save her dying mother and siblings from living a life of poverty and hunger. As a last example is the nanny, Anne, when she said that she too had to abandon her children, because she did not have the money to raise them and she found the job as a nursemaid.
There is a scene in this movie where the coach takes the team on a long run in the middle of the night. They end up at the break of dawn at a cemetery. The coach tells the young men of the battle that was fought on that ground. He told of the blood shed on those grounds that turned the whole area red. This can help many people that want to make a difference in this world. They had to stand up for their new knowledge to people that they love and trust.
The Rise of Intercollegiate Football and Its Portrayal in American Popular Literature With the success of the Merriwell literature, juvenile sport fiction became abundant. In all subsequent stories, the model for traditional juvenile sport fiction, even continuing today, is the illustrious Frank Merriwell (Oriard, 1982). As the Merriwell series dwindled to a halt in the 1910’s, books began to dominate the world of children’s sports fiction. Oriard (1982) suggested the popularity of these books rose because “the juvenile sports novel combined the action of the dime novels with the middle-class morality of the Alger (rags-to-riches) novel” (p. 47). In 1912, the year Gilbert Patten retired as the author of the Merriwell stories, Owen Johnson published his children’s novel, Stover at Yale.
Introduction--While some sports were not as popular as they are today, little did people know how large of a role they would play in society during the 1930s.
Despite the influx of talent from across the world, Samoans and Tongans have begun to dominate football with superior speed and strength that allows them to play outside the boundaries of past players at their size. The film shows every aspect of the process from the players entering high school to being scouted by college and professional scouts as they capture four years of the four young men’s careers. The fact that the film puts so much emphasis on the process shows the importance of it for the players as well as their families. Though the players have strength and support in the form of mothers, siblings and friends, the film stresses the difficulties that the players face as they attempt to become professional football
... then going through her softball career and then ending up seeing her sister again when they are old. Penny, the director, did a good job of incorporating the personal lives of the players into the movie. I thought it was very emotional when Coach Dugan gave one of the players a death notice saying her husband died in the war. It helped make the movie a little bit more personal and real. I really enjoyed this movie and I could watch it any day of the weak.
1. It has become much harder to identify the true and amateur-taught values around sport in our culture. The passion for competition, the aspect of a team, and the actions of sportsmanship are deep values that sports act to instill. It becomes one of the most important ways to teach those values to our young and unfortunately is becoming easy to forget. Throughout the semester we scrutinized sports, looking at their influence, role, and meaning in our American society today. Two foundations to view sport, critical and functionalist theory, were brought upon early in the semester, laying groundwork for looking at the rest of the topics. To better understand these two view points a working definition of each is needed. The three C’s of: capitalism, coercion and commercialism help describe the critical/conflict theory and view of sport in our United States. When looking with this viewpoint some of sport’s purposes in society include, promoting and expanding capitalistic drives as well as showing the power and privilege of elite groups within society. (Coakley, 2001) On the contrary the ...
During the late 80’s, Phil Alden Robinson developed a sensational story that revolved around a real life account of a sport tragedy. The viewers were immersed in a touching account of how sport, a social interest, can play a powerful role in human bonding; thus becoming a very spiritual component of life. It in itself has a profound effect on the societies’ spiritual experiences; and just like religion can respectfully be considered a form of spirituality for a modern society, as exemplified in Robinson’s movie ‘Field of Dreams’. This story resonates far beyond the power of dreams, its appeal lies in a vision of a perfect sport and the love for which can inadvertently resolve issues no matter how grand. The plot at first presents itself as a complex; or maybe even a strange series of events, but somehow its scenes string themselves into a moral about redemption and deep interpersonal bonds.
This movie was inspiring and encouraging to anyone who is struggling with something. Overcoming his controversies in life became the main point of the movie. Knowing that this movie was based upon a true story inspires the people even more.
Even by just watching this movie, I felt the strong understand of challenging yourself for the better instead of going with the status quo of failure. Instead of accepting what seems to come for you, change your future, because every moment counts. And just because you may not win every time, doesn’t mean you didn’t learn anything. You could’ve learned education, self worth, and individuality within a team. Now you’ve won something that could change a person for a lifetime. And that’s why I really enjoyed this movie. I enjoyed the opportunities to interpret the obvious messages differently. That’s why someone else might get a different vibe out of the Coach Carter. And that’s more than I could hope for in a movie.
...town rivals, Saint Francis, the number one seed in the playoffs. They played them the best they could, but would end up losing to them by two points at the buzzer, as the All American, Ty Crane, hit the game winning three pointer. Coach Carter’s team was heartbroken after the loss because they had done everything possible to get the victory. After this heartbreaker, Coach Carter comes in to give a speech that uplifts the players. Coach Carter ended his speech with this quote, “I came here to coach basketball players, and you became students. I came here to coach boys and you became men.” This movie had a great purpose that should be implemented into more athletes’ lives to help them in life. I rate this movie as a 5 because it was very inspirational to me. Being a former athlete, I think I would have learned some valuable life lessons from a coach like Coach Carter.
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.
The Reasons Behind the Popularity of Action Films In this essay I am going to explore the conventions of action films and their popularity. People love action films, and when they go to see one there are conventions you would expect to see in the film All plots of action films are based on the same outline, Hero and villain meet, there's a disruption of order, and mission, then everything is sorted out when the villain dies and everything returns to normal. There are Stock characters that you expect to see in this genre of film, the hero, the villain and two attractive ladies. The main action is around a male hero, however, modern films have featured female heroines for example Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider'. If the hero is male he is always good looking, intelligent, brave, chauvinistic, and manages to escape from life threatening situations, however the hero will always have a weakness, and if the hero is male the weakness is normally women.