Glory Road Sociology

Glory Road is a sports film that could be described as the typical standard sports film. This meaning that the films story line follows the story line of most sport films that are produce by the major movie production companies. Of course this film has its own personal twist and turns that make it unique in itself. The film Glory Road follows a team that begins as the disadvantage underdogs that take way on a story line journey as the underdogs having to overcome multiple obstacles in a dream of being on top (Crosson, Pg. 71). In more detail to the movie it is based on a true story of the 1966 Texas Western College Basketball team coached by Don Haskins. The film portrays a story that in Don Haskins first year coaching the Miners of Texas

I want to see how truthful they stayed to the original story line or how far this new Disney created storyline is from the original. I find that the racial picture painted in the movie was much bigger and more violent than what the real life characters seen (Will, 2006). This is Disney bring the issue of race to the light of the audience. Even though the true story of Glory Road does not experience these violent racial crimes, does not mean that other players from other schools in the south didn’t go through this. I think this was shown to give an insight on what was happening at that time. The two scenes in the film that show racism happening were not real and put there by the film makers (Whicker, 2006). One of the main points in the film of when Coach Don Haskins choose to make a point by starting and playing only his black players. This action is in fact not completely true. Don Haskins says that he decided to start his best players and the best players on the team were black (Will, 2006). The real life people said during that time team started black players and some teams had four black starters. The Texas Western Miners were the first team to start all five players that were black. They followed a system that at least one white player had to be in with the purpose of keeping them organized. The Miners proving this belief wrong and were more than capable of doing it without the white player (Whicker,