The movie Cool Runnings is about a Jamaican bobsled team of four men, Derice, Sanka, Junior, and Yul, going to Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. This movie based on a real story of the first Jamaican bobsled team in 1988. The movie tells the story of the event even though there are some things happened in the movie which did not happen in the real story and some other things happened in the real story which did not appear in the movie (Fleming 2008). However, the movie is very emotional and funny, and it gives the general idea of the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team. The team wanted to be successful no matter what circumstances, and they never gave up on their dream to be professional bobsledders. They wanted to make people of their country to …show more content…
be proud of them. They gave up on everything else but the the Olympics. Fortunately, they found a coach who was experienced and motivated as well. At the end, their dream came true and they became famous, and even the audience who hated them one day, became their audience. The movie starts with a song says, “Don't get upset if you have nobody” (Cool Runnings) which indicates that it is about motivating someone who has been discriminated.
Derice, Yul, and Junior along with many other competitors run in a 100-meter race even though they did not know each other before, but the three of them lost the race due to a mistake; however, they kept looking for other chances to become champions. Derice was more motivated than the other members of the team. He convinced Sanka to be in his bobsleigh team. Then Sanka and Derice found a retired bobsled coach, Blitzer, who first refused to train them because Blitzer did not think that the team would be able to compete in a sport on ice since ice games are not common in Jamaica. Eventually Blitzer agreed to train them, and Yul and Junior joined the team as …show more content…
well. The team seemed to be unorganized at the beginning, but the coach could see that they were motivated. So the coach kept training them. For example, Yul seemed to be unfriendly and rude at the beginning, but Derice, Blitzer and Junior accepted his rudeness in order to keep him as a member of the team as they believed that Yul was important to the team. As coach had a lot of previous experience in the bobsled, he was very patient with the team, and he always encouraged them because he could see the progress the team was making. After a hard work and good training, the team made a great progress, and the coach believed in the team’s success; however, the team still needed some people to help them with money for going to the Olympics and support.
The government did not help them either because the government officials thought that it was funny to have a Jamaican bobsled team since Jamaica does not have much ice in their country. The team decided to do whatever it takes to collect some money and be able to go to Winter Olympics. So, Derice and Sanka stayed in street kissing people for one dollar and Yul was trying to win money as well by arm wrestling, but the money they were making was not even close enough for the trip as the time was short before Olympics start. Surprisingly, Junior sold his car, without telling his father about it, and gave the money to the team for going to Olympics. Even though the team desperately needed the money for going to the Olypics, Derice asked Junior to take his money back because he did not to utilize Junior; Finally, the team thanked Junior for getting the money, and they happily got ready for going to the Winter Olympics. As shown in the movie, Jamaican players are having issues with money for traveling and living expenses and eventually get enough money as Junior sells his car. But in the real story, according to Fleming, “…two Americans with lots of money funded the team. Money was never an issue for the Jamaican Bobsled Team.” This part of the movie emphasizes
how poor the Jamaicans were, and how difficult was it for them to even get into the competition. The Jamaican bobsled team was eventually able to go to the Winter Olympics, but there were still many consequences. Neither the coach nor the team was welcomed in the competition, and they still did not have supporters since the team was from a country which had never been in this competition and the coach had cheated in another competition before. Even some of the coach’s old friends did not want to see him because of his cheating in the Olympics previously. Junior’s father, on the other hand, sent him a message asking him to go back home as soon as possible. Junior got very upset because he was very motivated about the competition, and he did not want to make his father mad at him. One night at a bar some people tried to beat the Jamaicans as they said that, “Jamaican are not belong to here” (Cool Runnings). But Yul kept Junior's back and fought back. Then, Sanka joined them too fighting in the bar. Yul encouraged Junior to stay with the team because the team needed him, and Junior listened to him instead of going home as his father asked him to do so. Because the team realized that there are people who want them to fail and leave the competition, they became closer to each other; they started working together more seriously as a team. After being laughed at by the people from their own country, hated and laughed at by people from other countries (according to the movie), and faced many difficulties while going to the Olympics, the Jamaicans eventually worked together as a team and fought together as a team. For example, the team failed on the first time trying the bobsled, which made them to work harder to avoid losing the competition. After the team figured out that the other players hate all four of them equally, they became more motivated in working together hard in order to achieve their goal. Coach, on the other hand, begged everyone who could help his team. He borrowed a bobsled from a friend, he went to police to drop the case of his players who got in trouble for fighting in a bar, and he begged the Olympics committee to allow his team in the competition as the committee attempted to disqualify the team. The movie ends with very emotional moments when the players' hard work and motivation makes people to support them. Their dream eventually came true. They became famous in the competition, and their families specifically and their country generally became proud of them. The other competitors, who one day hated the Jamaican bobsleigh team, applauded them before everybody else, Junior's father who wanted his son to leave the competition, presented the day of the competition and supported his team, and media, for the first time, supported the Jamaican team. This movie is a good example of the saying “nothing is impossible.” A Jamaican, who did not even know what a bobsleigh is, never been in a place where is snows, and had not supporters decided to be a professional bobsledder. He had no money to travel and live in an expensive place for a while, but one of the teammates, backed him. Their challenges were not only money and knowing about the game, but also people to encourage them to continue the competition. They found themselves among many people who hated them and wanted them to fail and/or withdraw from the competition. But they never did not hate others back; instead, they kept dreaming of being famous. Their dream was the most important thing to them, and it came true at the end it came true.
The movie Loving takes place in Caroline County, Virginia, with a white construction worker who falls in love with an African American woman. They both find out that they are going to have a child together and make the decision to get married. But, in this time, both of them find out that they both can’t get married due to the laws in the time. African Americans and Whites don’t normally be with each other or even fall in love for that matter. Both fight for their rights to be together not just in the state of Virginia, but for everyone in all states.
Throughout the film of Smoke Signals, the story centers on two characters, Thomas and Victor. Thomas, through his storytelling shows Victor that there's more to life than cynicism and pure anger, while Victor let's Thomas know what it means to be a real Indian. We can see this in the scene where Victor tells Thomas that Indians are not supposed to smile to white people and that Indians always should look mean in order to gain the respect of white folks. However, we can see that after they return to the bus their seats have been taken by two white men and neither did Victor’s mean face and faded smile help him gain their seats back. This scene shows us that those stereotypes about how what an Indian is supposed to act are not in fact true because
The film “A League of Their Own,” depicts a fictionalized tale of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. This league was started during World War II when many of the Major Leagues Biggest stars were drafted to the war. MLB owners decided to start this league with hopes of making money while the men were overseas fighting. Traditional stereotypes of women in sports were already in force before the league even begins. One of the scouts letts Dottie, one of the films main characters she is the perfect combination of looks as well as talent. The scout even rejects one potential player because she is not as pretty as the league is looking for even though she is a great baseball player. The player, Marla’s father said if she was a boy she would be playing for the Yankee’s. Eventually Mara’s father is able to convince the scout to take Marla to try outs because he raised her on his own after her mother died. Her father says it is his fault his daughter is a tomboy. In this case the film reinforces the traditional stereotype that mothers are in charge of raising their daughters and teaching them to be a lady, where fathers are incapable of raising girls to be anything other than a tomboy. The focus on beauty also reinforces the traditional stereotype that men will only be interested in women’s sports when the females participating in
It is impossible not to judge someone without meeting them in society. This is well shown in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel about a group of boys with their own problems not including their social class being Greasers. The other class, the Socs oppose Greasers. Socs jump Greasers in their free time which then causes the Greasers to retaliate. Some personal origins are dead family members, starvation, no education, and poor households. In conclusion one theme is proven through the statement keep judgement to a minimal because you do not know the problems of others. This creates two sub themes, never succumb to stereotypes and society will wrongly, consistently generalize a group.
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The movie Crash was directed by Paul Haggis is a powerful film that displays how race is still a sociological problem that affects one 's life. It also focuses on how we should not stereotype people based on their color because one may come out wrong in the end. Stereotyping is a major issue that is still happening in today 's society and seems to only be getting worse. This movie is a great way to see the daily life and struggle of other races and see how racism can happen to anyone, not just African Americans which seems to only be seen in the news and such.
The world is made up of stereotypes, and within those stereotypes there are often times different classes. In the America that we live in, there are three general classes. The upper class is thought to be snobby people who think that they are too good for any of the other classes. Middle class is considered to be the average American, a majority of citizens would consider themselves middle-class. Then there is lower class, people who have to work multiple jobs and still might not make as much money as they desire, or even need to live. The movie, Good Will Hunting, is based around the upper class, and the lower class. Will works as a janitor at MIT who is unexpectedly extremely smart, although he never applied himself. Will
For many years, racial and ethnic stereotypes have been portrayed on multiple television programs. These stereotypes are still illustrated on a day-to-day basis even though times have changed. Racial or ethnic stereotypes should not be perpetuated on certain television programs. These stereotypes provide false information about groups, do not account for every person, allow older generations to influence younger generations, create tension between groups, and affect people in many ways.
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Day two, the 100 meter dash. As heard on the day, "at the start, the athletes are toeing the line. Now the start. Ready. Set. Go! The Dutch runner is leading, now Jesse Owens is closing in, Metcalfe is trailing, Borchmeyer is fighting desperately. Owens is closing in on the finishing line with a large lead. First Owens. Second Metcalfe." After, Owens says, "I'm very glad to have won the 100 meters at the Olympic games here in Berlin. A very beautiful place, and a very beautiful setting. The competition was grand and we’re very glad to come out on top. Thank you very kindly." Owens has tied the world record and can check one goal off his list. Based off tradition, the leader of the host country would congratulate the gold medal winner, but Hitler did none of the sort. Louis Stokes, a Cleveland resident at the time said, "As an African American, all of us shared the snubbery by Hitler of Jesse Owens. Jesse was ours. He was us. He was me. And when Hitler snubbed him -- he snubbed every one of us." As Owens began to win, African Americans began to join and support him. Day three, the long jump. Owens came out sloppy in the preliminaries, but jumped far enough to qualify for the finals. During the event, "the leader changed constantly. When one athlete reached a certain distance the other countered. And for a long time, it was impossible to tell how the contest
Track and field during the victorian era was very similar to present day with many of the same events.Track and field's line of events is from ancient athletic festivals in Greece and the British Isles. Both the original Olympics in ancient Greece and the Celtic Tailteann Games date back to around the ninth century BCE. These games played host to the best athletes throughout the world, who competed in running, jumping, and throwing events in addition to wrestling, archery, and the greeks had swimming.. Professional track and field had no regulation, with many athletes making a living by their skill and talent. There are multiple stories of sprinters who would travel from town to town in disguise, pretending that they had no talent in racing and then persuaded many local people to compete with them and sometimes spectators would place bets against them. Often the races would be handicapped events, meaning the locals were given a rough 5–10 yards' head start in a 100-yard dash. During this way the athletes were able to make a substantial living. Long distance races were also very common, often the races were promoted heavily for extra money. Though cheating happened frequently, the professional sport still had...
While watching movies, have you ever noticed that the villains in almost every single Hollywood film are of Middle Eastern or European descent? In a reoccurring theme of Hollywood, the villains in these films are almost always foreigners or people of color. This is a stereotype. On the other side of the spectrum, we often see that the heroes of these films are most often than not white males. This is another stereotype. Within the last few years, we’ve seen actors such as Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, and Zoe Saldana take the lead roles, so it can’t be said that there are no non-white heroes, but there certainly isn’t many. Hollywood action movies, moreover than other genres, are typically loaded with an abundance of stereotypes. The way these movies are composed and structured can tell us a great deal about the views held within the American psyche and who holds the social power. The harsh reality is that the media ultimately sets the tone for societal standards, moralities, and images of our culture. Many consumers of media have never encountered some of the minorities or people of color shown on screen, so they subsequently depend on the media and wholeheartedly believe that the degrading stereotypes represented on the big screen are based on fact and not fiction. Mary Beltran said it best when she stated in her “Fast and Bilingual: Fast & Furious and the Latinization of Racelessness” article, “ultimately, Fast & Furious mobilizes notions of race in contradictory ways. It reinforces Hollywood traditions of white centrism, reinforcing notions of white male master while also dramatizing the figurative borders crossed daily by culturally competent global youth – both Latino and non-Latino” (77). This paper will specifically look...
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As the first meet neared, things were going well. I made it onto the 4x100 team making me the third fastest kid on the team. The other members of the relay were Jason Schmidt, Jeremy Willard and Rodney Schmidt. Jason and Jeremy were both the top dogs and Rodney and I were second from the bottom of the barrel.
I had never really been a part of a team that had a chance to win something, but the potential was always there. I finally got my chance to be a part of such a team my sophomore year of track. Mr. Jones, the head track coach, had decided to experiment with some different races to gain more team points. Since the girls' team lacked a medley relay, he placed Cindy, Kim, Susan and I in those spots. Cindy would run the 400, Kim would run the 200, and Susan and I would start the race off by each running the 100. We all had worked viciously to earn those spots by running off against our teammates.