The film, McFarland USA, is based on the true story of a cross country team from a mainly Latino high school in McFarland, California. It shows a the new school’s coach, Jim White, lead the team, that was underrated because where they came from, to win a state championship. The characters was important to the movie, but some were more exceptional than others. Most of the movie’s characters had major struggles, but they grew pass their struggles to exceed to their goals. This movie shows very important and inspirational lessons to everyone that watches it. Most of the characters it McFarland USA were terrific, but the best character was Tomas Valles. He had many obstacles in his life. Tomas was a troublemaker, he wasn’t going to go to college, …show more content…
and he went to pick, went to pick in the fields every day, for most of his life. But, when Jim White came to his school, everything changed for him. When Thomas began running in cross country, he was the best right away. He wanted to give up in the beginning, and he didn’t see the point of running because he thought it was a waste of time. As the season progressed, he began to love it. He wanted to run cross country in college, but his dad didn’t want that and he persevered through that and he went to college. By the end of the movie Tomas helped win the state title, he went to college, and ran in college. Tomas was a very inspiring character in the film. He shows people that even though someone comes from a little town, where no one expects anything great from them, that person can accomplish anything they set their mind to. Even though most of the characters in McFarland USA were favorable, there was some that weren’t as likable.
One of those characters were the Palo Alto coach. He underrated the McFarland team and was very obnoxious. When the Jim and his team went to their first meet the Palo Alto coach very ignorant, cocky, and obnoxious to Jim. At the end of the movie, when the McFarland cross country team improved, that the coach wanted Jim to come to Palo Alto. So, at the beginning he was rude to Jim and the team and then he wants to take Jim away from them. That is very wrong. Jim almost took the job but turned it down at the end. The Palo Alto coach wanted to win no matter the cost and he thinks he’s above other coaches and other teams. In the end he lost. McFarland USA shows us not to underestimate the underdog, and to not have a big head about yourself. For those reasons he is the least acceptable character in the movie. Most of the characters in McFarland USA had struggles that most people would not experience in America. Jim got fired from coaching football at his old school. Tomas, David, Danny, and Damasio's parents didn't want them to run; they wanted them to pick in the fields to make money. Also, their parents didn't think they would have a future with them running cross country. Another struggle Tomas had was that he was trying to commit suicide. Luckily, Jim was there and saved him. All of these characters had struggles that were intimidating and they had to persevere through …show more content…
them. The team and the coach’s obstacles were difficult to overcome and to grow past them.
At the beginning of the movie Jim was forced to accept the McFarland coaching job because nobody else would take him. He didn't want to be there and the assistant football coach didn't like him. When he made the cross country team, it was rough at first. But, he kept working with them and he made them better. In the end he created cross country, state champions and he kept making cross country champions. When David, Danny, and Damasio quit the team to help out their parents, Jim talked to the parents and they made him understand why they need to do that. So, because of that Jim helped the Diaz family out by working out in the fields with them. They had to run and work in the fields every day. When Tomas wanted to quit, it was because he didn’t think that running would do anything for him, he thought he was just going to end up in the fields. But, as the film progresses he grows to love running and he wanted to go to college for it. All of the team grew from being a team wanted nothing to do with cross country to be state champions. If they would have quit, if they didn’t grow past their struggles, most if not all of those boys would have been what everyone expected of them. They would be picking in the fields for most of their lives. Instead, they went to college and became someone
special. In McFarland USA there was many important and inspirational lessons throughout the movie. At first, before the cross country team was made, the boys were pickers and always going to be pickers. The coach was not happy with his football team at, the time, and he was violent to them because they didn’t respect him. Then Jim comes along and puts a cross country team together and no one really expected anything great from them. They work hard and overcome obstacles, next thing you know, they win the state meet. So, when people come from that into state champions, that becomes inspiration to all that watched to movie. Also, it’s important because it shows people that no matter where people came from, no matter the odds that are in that person’s way, if they work hard and try it be great, they will become great. The film, McFarland USA, is the true story of a cross country team from a mainly Latino high school in McFarland, California. It’s where a new school’s unexpected cross country coach, Jim White, lead the team to greatness They were underrated because of where they came from, but they proved everyone wrong. All of the characters were important to the movie, but some were more exceptional than others. Most of the movie’s characters many tough struggles, but they grew pass their struggles to exceed to their goals. This movie shows very important and inspirational lessons to everyone that watches it. This movie is exceptional.
Glory Road is a 2006 sports film directed by James Gartner starring Josh Lucas and Derek Luke. The film portrays the story of how Don Haskins had the first all black starting lineup in the NCAA and led Texas Western to a national championship. Along the way, the players and Coach Haskins face great adversity throughout the season because of their all black starting lineup. As the season progresses, the threats continuously grow worse and eventually are directed towards the family of Coach Haskins. This problem continues to grow due to the fact that Texas Western’s team gains national recognition not only for being the first with an all black starting lineup, but for making i through the regular season with only a single loss As the movie progress the audience sees one of the players get beaten because of his race. Another scene shows a hotel room that has been completely trashed because it was where the black athletes were staying. I will prove that that this scene where the hotel room is trashed is racist towards the black athletes.
When Jim first moves to Nebraska as a 10 year old boy, he takes the train from Virginia with Jake who is to look after him. Riding on the train, Jim is blown away by the stunning beauty of the plains and the landscape of the cornhusker state. He has never seen so much freedom and opportunity when looking at the world. When he is on the farm with his grandparents, his love for the land grows even stronger. Jim absorbs things and takes them in like he never has before, and truly
This film represents our indigenous culture and regardless of what happens we can find good in a situation. Together the black and white community can come together and achieve more than they could ever do by themselves.
In one of the scenes, Jim is caught between trying to prove his masculinity or staying home and being the good son that his parents have yearned for. He struggles emotionally and physically, mainly because his parents do not live up to society’s expectations of
As previously mention the films main focus is on the United States economic relationship and impact on Latinos and Latin countries. Primarily we see how Latinos are treated here in the U.S. and the hardships the face along with how the U.S. affected other countries like Guatemala, or more specifically how influential United Fruit Company was, and how its presence affected the nation. One major example of this was the coup that the US backed to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala after they confronted the United Fruit Company. We also see how the U.S. military affected these nations, one well known example being the
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
There were really no very interesting characters in this book. I was never one to be interested in history. There were some interesting parts though, for instance, the chapter about the railroad man was pretty good, and it was kind of cool that he got promoted to vice-president of the railroad he work on within a year after he started the job. Some of the wars he was in were ok as well. It sometimes amazes me that there were so many unnamed heroes.
The movie I decided to analyze was Remember the Titans. I examined the dilemmas and ethical choices that were displayed throughout the story. In the early 1970s, two schools in Alexandria Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The Caucasian head coach of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach (Denzel Washington) from North Carolina, which causes a fury among white parents and students. Tensions arise quickly among the players and throughout the community when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Coach Boone is a great example of a leader. He knows he faces a tough year of teaching his hated team. But, instead of listening to the hating town or administrators, Boone pushes his team to their limits and forces good relationships between players, regardless of race. His vision for the team involves getting the players concerned in what the team needs to become, and not what it is supposed to be; a waste. Boone is a convincing leader with a brutal, boot camp approach to coaching. He believes in making the players re-build themselves as a team. When Boone says, You will wear a jacket, shirt, and tie. If you don't have one buy one, can't afford one then borrow one from your old man, if you don't have an old man, then find a drunk, trade him for his. It showed that he was a handy Craftsman and wanted done what he wanted done no matter what it took.During training camp, Boone pairs black players with white players and instructs them to learn about each other. This idea is met with a lot of fighting, but black linebacker Julius Campbell and stubborn white All-American Gerry Bertier. It was difficult for the players to cope with the fact they had to play with and compete with ...
Out of all of the characters in the movie, I thought that Daniel Ruiz, portrayed by Michael Peña, was the most likeable and that you get to see and understand more of his background and personal life compared
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
The first character that intrigued me, probably because I could relate to him the most was Andrew, the "jock." A jock is the group of people that are athletically inclined and are usually part of a sports team. When all the students were confessing what they had done he seemed the most regretful of his actions. Andrew being a great wrestler at school saw an unsuspecting teammate that was much smaller than he was and decided to jump on him and start beating up on him. What made his case so extreme was that not only did beat up on his teammate but he taped his butt cheeks together. The perception that I, as well as the members of the breakfast club, had of Andrew was that he couldn't think for himself. He also thought the same thing because he said that he felt pressured by his dad to do something mischievous because he (his dad) used to get into mischievous acts often while he was in high school. So while he was looking at his smaller teammate he said that all he could here was his father telling him about being a winner and doing so many unnecessary things just because he was an exceptional athlete. When Andrew told his story it seemed that all the other people were going to cry because they could see that he regretted doing what he did.
A tragic hero is an individual who possesses a fatal flaw in their character that will bring about their own destruction or suffering. Aristotle believed that “A man doesn't become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall. (Aristotle #1)” This Ancient Greek philosopher also believed that each tragic hero has four characteristics. The first of these characteristics is that a tragic hero is born with either wisdom or high integrity, and in some cases both. Aristotle’s second characteristic is that they contain a fatal flaw in their character that may cause them to behave irrationally. The penultimate characteristic is that each hero will suffer a turnabout of fortune brought about by their own flaw in character. Finally, the last characteristic is that the tragic hero will find out that their own turnabout of fortune was brought about by their own actions. McCandless in into the wild is the ideal tragic hero mentioned by Aristotle. McCandless had everything in the world but he gave it up to live in the wilderness and through his own actions he paid the ultimate price. McCandless is seen by the world as a young man who left the corrupted society to embrace a journey only a few would dare. “That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do. (Krakauer 96)” This journey ended up being the best time of his life and the fact that he attempted this wildlife adventure makes him look more like a daring hero than an idiotic teen.
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.
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