When The Game Stands Tall (An analyzation of When The Game Stands Tall poetics) When The Game Stands Tall is the latest football movie. The movie is based on a true story about a high school in Concord California called De La Salle that still has the longest high school football winning streak in history. By the end of their 2003 season De La Salle had one hundred fifty one wins and zero losses. This movie is about how the team picked themselves back up after losing to a team who “haven’t slowed much since.” (Maxpreps, Stephens). This movie shows Aristotle's poetics by having a strong protagonist, hamartia, and using catharsis well. In this movie the protagonist is the whole 2004 De La Salle football team. Some people thought this football team could’ve kept winning forever. This team is the protagonist because you most identify the whole team instead of just one character. One could feel both fear and pity for this football team. One could feel pity because they lost their winning streak on their season opener to Bellevue High School. I felt …show more content…
The fall starts when The coach Bob Ladouceur almost dies, but is saved. The doctors tell him he can’t coach until April meaning he’ll miss all of spring training. This is a big setback for De La Salle. The murder of former player Terrence Kelly brings them even lower. The team hits rock bottom when they lose their winning streak on their game opener. This win by Bellevue was so impressive because “it more than doubled the previous high school win streak of 72 set by ” Hudson High School in Michigan (Maxpreps, Stephens). This fall of the protagonist helps the audience to identify them more. After this fall happened I was much more interested in seeing what the football team would do next. The fall of the protagonist or the Hamartia in this film really helps define Aristotle’s poetics about the team in this
Students should read this book in a high school English classroom because it demonstrates how relationships can be difficult, but teamwork can help to solve many issues. Hutch realized that it would not help his team to continue fighting with Darryl and by being mad at his father. He was able to take those difficult relationships and form them into positive outcomes and achieve his goal. After winning the championship game, “Hutch made his way through his teammates, and up through the stands and did something he had not done in a very long time: Hutch hugged his father. And his father hugged him back” (Lupica 243). This proves to students that if they continue to work hard and focus on a goal, they can achieve it by being a team player on and off the field.
High school sports can have a tremendous effect on not only those who participate but the members of the community in which they participate. These effects can be positive, but they can also be negative. In the book Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger shows that they are often negative in communities where high school sports “keep the town alive” due to the social pressure. In this way, Friday Night Lights gives insight into the effects of high school football being the backbone of a community, revealing that the fate of the individual football players are inadvertently determined by the actions of the townspeople.
From what I ponder, I think the reason why we watched this movie was to encourage students to work hard on something they vehemently want to do. The tale of the movie displays a character who puts her time and effort to study difficult vocabularies, in order to attain her goal of winning the nationals in Washington. Therefore, through watching the movie, students can relatively connect to the situation in achieving their goals.
Abstract: High school football in the state of Texas has become out of control. The sport is no longer played for the sake of the school but rather has become a Friday night ritual to these small towns in Texas. The players are no longer just high school kids inter acting in school sports but have now become heroes to these small town communities. Communities simply no longer support their local high school team but rally in pride of their hometown rivalry against another team. School administrators and coaches no longer are teachers and mentors for the kids but are the equivalent to what in professional football are team owners and "real coaches". Parents have become agents and sacrifice their jobs and homes so that their child may play for the right team. Finally the fans, the fans have lost the sense that it is just a high school sport and changed the game to a level of professional sports. I plan to prove and show that for all these reasons Texas high school football has become out of control. It is no longer the game that it was originally meant to be.
This movie is based on changing the lives of Mexican Americans by making a stand and challenging the authority. Even when the cops were against them the whole time and even with the brutal beatings they received within one of the walk out, they held on. They stuck to their guns and they proved their point. The main character was threatened by the school administrators, she was told if she went through with the walkout she would be expelled. While they wanted everyone who was going to graduate to simply look the other way, the students risked it all and gave it their all to make their voices
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.
Facing the Giants (2006) merges both football and faith into an inspirational Christian film. Directed by and starring Alex Kendrick as Grant Taylor, this movie about a high school football team asks viewers, “Do you bring your best every day?” Facing the Giants is a movie that reminds its viewers, “Never Give Up, Never Back Down, Never Lose Faith.”
In sports a team will do whatever it takes to win. When teams do something different it can create controversy. That is what happens in Football Champ. Troy is a twelve year old boy. He is a football genius. When a team lines up to run a play on offense, Troy can predict the play that is going to be run. He gets hired by the Atlanta Falcons to help their defense. This book is about what happens when the league discovers Troy. In this journal I will be visualizing the scenes from Troy’s junior football team, evaluating the Falcons use of Troy and they way that the National Football League reacts, and making a prediction about Troy’s future.
...set the movie apart from others because in other sports movies a speech is usually given at the last game when the team is losing. This speech showed that there was a bigger message to deliver and a bigger goal to achieve. Being the best person you can be and allowing yourself to shine is bigger than the sports you may play. In the end we are meant to work hard not only for ourselves but also to allow ourselves, our lives and our stories to be inspiration to others. The speech answered the question what is our deepest fear in a way you did not expect. When the coach persistently asked the players this question, the audience might have assumed their fear had something to do with basketball either the fear of losing a game or not being able to leave the town. But instead the speech hits home with its message of self-image and allowing yourself to be great.
Bissinger creates empathy in the reader by narrating the lives of once Permian heros. Charlie Billingsley, a Permian football player, “was somewhere at the top” while he was playing. It was hard for the football town of Odessa to forget “how that son of a bitch played the game in the late sixties”(80). While in Odessa, Permian players receive praise unmatched by even professional football. This unmatchable praise becomes something Permian players like Billingsley become accustomed to, and when he “found out that...you were a lot more expendable in college(80). This lack of appreciation that is equivalent to the one that they have received their whole life makes them go from “a hero one day to a broken down nobody the next”(81). With the realization of this reality, Billingsley becomes one of the many to spend life as a wastrel, living in his memory of playing for the Permian Panthers. The reader becomes empathetic towards how the once likely to succeed Billingsley, becomes another Odessan wastrel due to the over emphasis and extreme praise the Odessan football team receives. Bissinger does not stop with a classic riches to rags story to spur the reader’s empathy but talks about the effect the Odessan attitude toward football has on the health of its players. Just like in many parts of the world, in Odessa, sports equates to manliness and manliness equates to not showing signs of pain. Philip, an eighth grade boy aspiring to one day be a Permian Panther is lauded by his stepfather as he “broke his arm during the first demonstrative series of a game ...[but] managed to set it back in” and continued playing for the rest of the game. It is noted that Philip’s arm “swelled considerably, to the point the forearm pads...had to be cut off”(43). By adding details such as these, Bissinger
In Friday Night Lights we see the theory of functionalism not only in the team, but the town and its dream of solidarity through winning the state championship. In a small town, such as Odessa, Texas, high school football helps to keep the town together by keeping it alive. On Friday nights, when the flood lights turn on inside the Permian stadium the strength of Odessa seems dependent on what will occur in that football stadium. Businesses shut down; families and community come together within the constraints of this stadium to cheer their team onto victory. Thus during football season, litt...
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 ...
Many movies out there are based on a lot of things such as true stories. Some are about the paranormal, history, or even sports. Sports bring people together the most because they are almost always about overcoming a greater force. The film that I am writing about is one that is very good and touches the heart of many. When the Game Stands Tall was directed by a Thomas Carter. The film is about a high school football team with the best winning streak in the history of sports, a 151 consecutive games and the team members had to face the challenges of defeat and death. The thing that hurt them the most was overcoming the mental challenges.
The film exhibits and analyzes the story of NFL player Michael Oher’s life through high school as he endures various adversities and difficulties in his life. It tells Oher’s story of being the son of a cocaine addictive mother and absentee father, who is homeless due the circumstances of his family. Despite not having either of his parents in his life he did have Big Tony, who was his friend’s dad. Big Tony would allow Michael to sleep on his sofa some days when he did not have anywhere else to live and he also was the main cause to Michael being admitted to the Wingate Academy Christian School. At this school Michael meets S.J., who is the son on the Tuohy’s. S.J. begins a friendship with Michael at a time when no one else would and on a rainy day after S.J.’s thanksgiving play, the Tuohys see Michael walking. They ask him ...
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