Analysis Of Hurricane Season

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Hurricane Season, directed by Tim Story, follows a high school basketball coach named Al Collins, played by Forest Whitaker, who builds a team of players around the Louisiana area that were affected by the devastating Hurricane Katrina, and leads them to a state championship. On the way, Coach Collins encounters many obstacles, such as where to play, trying to recruit players and keeping them from joining other teams, and also negative influences in the locker room. All of these issues they faced kept them motivated and helped the team become more of a cohesive unit and winners.
We are first introduced to Coach Collins when he talking to team before the hurricane hits about he expects from them, “ I don’t claim to be a basketball guru. My playbook …show more content…

You can tell he is very cocky and boastful about his basketball playing ability. Also, when Coach Collins goes to visit him to try to get him on the team, he tells Brian that he was out of line for fighting with his players and that he must change his attitude if he wants to join the team. At the first game of the season, coach and the other players see Brian’s selfishness on the court first hand. Brian gets a technical foul and is very disrespectful to the referees, his coach and his teammates. Coach Collins finally meets Brian’s father, and from their conversation after the game, you can see that Brian’s selfish attitude stems from his father, “feeding the monster,” so to speak. After multiple games, it is clear that Brian is losing the team games and his teammates are very frustrated that they are coming together the best they can and all he is thinking about is himself. At practice, coach lets Brian go against the whole team to see what it is like to have no teammates helping him and that helps Brian realize what it’s like to not have any teammates helping him but still doesn’t like the fact that he needs them to win games. After his coach and teammates talk some sense into him, they become one cohesive unit that is motivated to win …show more content…

You’re 9-11. One more loss and you don’t make it to the playoffs. Do you want to play? Ain’t there nothing else for me to say to you. You got to make the decision to be a team. So before you go out there on the court, you got to work this out amongst yourselves.” At that time, all the players confront Brian about the issues they have with him and tell him to leave. As he’s leaving, Gary tells him to not walk out on the team, but Brain exclaims, “What team.” Gary follows him telling Brain to handle this situation like men. Brain tell his teammates that he doesn’t play for them, so Gary tells him he is right then asks him who he plays for and keeps badgering him about it until he answers the question and Brian tell Gary that he plays for his big brother Ray. He tells his team about his brother’s story about how he was a great player and how a drunk driver had killed him. Brian tells them that its there is a lot of pressure to fill his brother’s shoes and that his father has worked him so much to try to fill them and has to make his dad proud. After hearing Brian talk about his situation, his teammates tell him that they got his back and that they’re his brothers now. I agree his Coach Collins’ method he used because it brought Brian and the team together as a whole. Sometimes, when you have a coach yelling at you all the time, you need the coach to step aside

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