Bend It Like Beckham Analysis

When choosing a film for this assignment, my original choice was Bend It Like Beckham because I had heard of it and I had a general idea what it was about. I then decided that I wanted to take on a more challenging film, one that I had never heard of, and one that I would really have to study to understand its full meaning. After looking into a few of the listed movies, I ended up choosing Whale Rider, a drama filmed in New Zealand in 2002. After watching the movie two times, I feel that I now understand some of the more drastic cultural and gender based problems that are occurring today.

Bend it Like Beckham (2002/3) is a romantic comedy written, directed and produced by Gurinder Chadha, a Kenya-born British film maker who grew up India. Director Chadha’s films often reflect on her complex background. Unlike many comedies, Bend it Like Beckham is filled with plenty of important themes. One of them addresses the importance of cultural integration.

Thesis: Soccer is a sport like no other, and it has a very unique culture with in the game itself.

What you want in comparison to what your family expects form you is a common disagreement through most family households. In the movie ‘Bend it like Beckham’ we saw the conflict between jess and her parents on how they feel and what they want for her, how jess sees the situation and how it is resolved. Throughout Jess’s journey she is constantly pulled in what she truly wants and what here family/culture expects (internal conflict).

Soccer gives a kid the opportunity to bring money to their family if they are good enough. The film shows the historical significance of soccer as well. It shows how the Europeans came and showed Mexico soccer and it attempts to argue that the feelings from the Mexican-American War are reignited when the two sides play .

this movie also deal with elements of experince that shape a peson's charcter very well and touches human feeling. it show about hardwork, teamwork,leaderships. his team played a reversed against the racial who initiated the recruitment of arican american in all sports. Youth Haskins poer paly a central role in this movie. all

Franklin Foer exposes some of the world’s social problems. The book travels to many different settings throughout world and explains the problems that those areas are experiencing. It then shows how soccer brings the people of the area together as one and helps them forget the problems and to enjoy life. The major theme in this book is that we are all the same; that we are all human, and although there may be many problems that it seems like cannot

Bend It Like Beckham is a film that revolves loosely around soccer, but incorporates many life lessons and situations common in this day and age. The two main characters, Jess and Jules, both are women living in a culture where society and their loved ones expect them to act a certain way. Jesminder Bhamra, nicknamed Jess, has a great love for playing soccer, but because of her traditional Punjabi Indian family believing women have roles to cook, clean, and get married, she is not allowed to play. Jess meets Juliette Paxton, nicknamed Jules, who also struggles with her mother’s expectations of believing women should dress femininely, attract boys, and not play sports. Jules encourages Jess to join the soccer team she is on, and Jess accepts but must keep it a secret from her family and the rest of the Indian community. The situation with her family grows even more complicated because of her sister’s upcoming wedding, and the incredible pressure that the Bhamra’s are under because of it. Despite cultural differences, Jess and Jules both find themselves in positions where their mother’s don’t approve of their dedication to soccer, and grow a strong intercultural friendship and bond because of it. They also both have a strong relationship with their coach, Joe, who also went against what his father thought was right and decided to coach the women’s team. This film applies to this course because cultural identity, ecological fallacies, cultural traditions, conformity and

Bend it like Beckham is a film that was written, directed, and produced by Gurinder Chadha, a British film maker who was grew up in India. The film focuses on the main character's desire to play football and the conflict she faces due to her obligations to her traditional Sikh family. The character, Jess Bhamra, must make the decision to pursue football or follow her parent's wishes and complete school and marry and Indian man. As Jess struggles to find her own identity without losing her family, she befriends a British footballer Jules. Jules' parents offer an interesting parallel to Jess' family, showing that although cultures may be very different in some ways, they are actually very similar in others. Director Chadha explains that

Cultural differences can have a big role, but Denmark as a country that “scores 16” and therefor considered a feminine country. In feminine countries such as Denmark it is important to keep the life/work balance and to make sure everyone is involved opposite to an Indian society that is a societal hierarchy therefor it will be hard to comprehend as a Dane. India as a societal hierarchy is conspicuous in caste systems. Castes are mainly associated with Hinduism, within the villages and towns everyone knows he´s or hers rank within the community. This aspects shows the facts that in India there is an attitude of power distance. Belonging to a culture with high power distance tent to have individuals with a different view of power, believing everyone has a specific place in

When I was little, my family and I visited the ruins of Chichén Itzá. Sweat seemed to saturate every corner of that jungle (not to mention ourselves). Walking from ruin to ruin, the local tour guide gave us his usual spiel; “Mysterious collapse … thirteen layers of heaven … mesoamerican ball game … Blah, blah, blah.” There was one thing, however, which managed to stick in my third grade mind. As we were walking though an ancient ball court, our tour guide decided to hit us with this bombshell: “In ancient times, the Maya used to hold huge tournaments in this court, with the champions ritualistically sacrificed, so they could play ball with the gods.” Being a typical eight year old, I thought this was the coolest. I mean, can you imagine? What if after the Super Bowl, we brought the Patriots up to the Pepsi™ sponsored, sacrificial blood altar and just slaughtered them. And we’d all be okay with it because they'd be playing football with Jesus soon.

The cultural issues of Bend it like Beckham are breaking Indian traditions, what is a socially acceptable relationship. First issue is Jess breaking many Hindu traditions of showing too much leg when wearing her athletic shorts, showing the scar on her upper thigh, and playing organized soccer, falling in love with her coach who is not Indian. Second issue is gay couples we observe when Tony admits to Jess that he is ready likes David Beckham. Paula Jules’s mother freaks out when she thinks her daughter when she over hears argument between Jules and Jess over Jess kissing Joe when she knew Jules liked Joe, and her mothers the word you broke my heart. Paula comes to the conclusion Jules and Jess were in a relationship and broke up.

Everybody has dreams, but sometimes those dreams are difficult to realize because those dreams don’t match with the values and customs of the society they are in .The message presented in the movies Bent it like Beckham, directed by Gurinder Chadha (2002) and Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry(2000) is the rebellion of the main characters against their own culture to pursue their dream. The theme is shown through cultural settings and the comparison of the relationship between Jesse and Tony with the relationship between Billy and Michael. First of all, the cultural context of both films is a huge obstacle to the main characters’ dream.

Sport Industry and Film industry are both highly developed in America. As a result of that, putting sport elements into movies is a good way to maximum the effect of entertainment. As an international students, though sometimes there is language barrier, it is still a great honor to have opportunities to watch considerable good sport films this semester. While I enjoyed the wonderful exciting stories, the American value system, especially the value of success, always impressed me deeply. In China, people are always talking about and eulogizing American Dream, which is defined as a belief that, in the United States, truly anyone can make it. That is to say, American Dream is that everyone can

How is the theme of perseverance in Hidden figures and Bend it like Beckham used to influence viewers and how are cinematic techniques applied to achieve this?