Bend It Like Beckham Analysis

dell Beckham Jr. was born on November 5, 1992 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His mother name was Heather Norman, father Odell Beckham Sr., a younger brother Kordell, and a younger sister Jasmine. He went to Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana where he played football, basketball, and track. As a junior he caught 45 passes for 743 yards and 10 touchdowns. As a senior he caught 50 catches for 1,010 yard and 19 touchdowns. He joined Cooper Manning as the only two players in school history to record 1,000 receiving yards in a season. Beckham followed in his mother footsteps in track. He was a standout track & field athlete. He took silver in long jump in 2020 with career-best leap of 6.83.

Gurinder Chadha directed the film Bend It Like Beckham which was released in April of 2002. In this movie, the motif of David Beckham is presented through the various cinematic techniques that Chadha displays. Jessminda, the protagonist in the film, looks upon Beckham as her ‘God’, inspiration and mentor. Lighting, soundtrack and colour are three main elements used to convey Jess’ emotional state throughout the film as seen in the ‘Opening scene’, ‘Taking down Beckham’ and ‘Beckham at the airport’. The motif of David Beckham can be identified in the opening scene where Jess is imagining she is playing soccer for Manchester United, alongside Beckham.

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.

Family ties people down and brings people together. It chains people down with rules and regulations, caging them in with familial obligations. While most would not complain or fight against being encaged and molded into their parents’ desires, some let go, abandoning these duties in exchange for happiness. In the production Bend It Like Beckham, the protagonist, Jess, struggles with the reason why it is important to abandon family obligations when it conflicts with one’s personal desires.

The film in question explores the story of two schools being integrated and the journey to work past racial barriers while trying to successfully incorporate two football teams (Creation of a Team PT.1). Not only did the two teams need to learn to work together, but the story also includes the difficulties of combining coaching techniques and working together to form the team from the managerial side. The film allows us to witness the behavioural stages of team building: Forming, storming, norming and performing. Through these stages, the two teams were able to assimilate and build the bonds necessary to work as a cohesive

Surprisingly, Football is not the topic of "Football" by Louis Jenkins; rather, 'a man's brown leather oxford' (Line 3/4) is the star of the show. The tone of the poem at first is serious, the speaker resolute to do his job as quarterback. Football terminology is evident and differentiates the solemness of the first two lines from the altered tone in the next section of the poem. The shift takes place with a hasty 'what the hell is this?' (Line 3), invoking a completely different view from the speaker. Although, there is still a sliver of the previous tone in the au courant one, the author meant for the new tone to be amusing in the mix-up with equipment and the speakers comparison to pancakes. The speaker juxtaposes 'clear corn syrup' (Line

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 .

To begin with, Bend It Like Beckham is a film about an Indian girl named Jess who lives in London with her family who is very strict about the way culture shapes how they live. She is an amazing soccer player and is asked to join a great team by Jules, a girl who sees her playing at the park. Unfortunately, Jess has to hide this team from her parents for her mother strongly disapproves of the shorts that expose her legs, especially her large burn scar on her thigh. Moreover, she mainly does not want Jess playing soccer because it is masculine and unattractive in her eyes, and she should be focusing on attending a university. Jess’s mother states that Jess needs to learn how to cook delicious Indian food in order to attract a husband, rather than worrying about sports. Due to this presence of folk culture in her home, Jess decides to lie to

By biological logic, we human beings will face death sooner or later in our life and death has its very own ways to approach us - a sudden deadly strike, a critical sickness, a tragic accident, a prolonged endurance of brutal treatment, or just an aging biological end. To deal with the prospect of death come different passive or active reactions; some may be scared and anxious to see death, some try to run away from it, and some by their own choice make death come faster. But Viktor Frankl, through his work Man’s Search for Meaning, and Bryan Doyle; in his essay “His Last Game” show us choices to confront the death, bring it to our deepest feelings, meaningful satisfaction. To me, the spirit of the prisoners at deadly concentration camps, Frankl’s Logotherapy theory of “. . . striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.” (99), as well as the calmness of Doyle’s brother on his last ride, like an awaken bell, remind us of how precious life is, how we should find the significance in every act of living, determine to live a meaningful life at any circumstances; hence, when death comes, we can accept it without anxiety nor regrets.

The term sport is highly complex and often tough for people to define. Concepts that are associated with sport can be equally hard to understand. One such concept is deviance among athletes. Coakley states that “Deviance occurs when a person’s ideas, traits, or actions are perceived by others to fall outside the normal range of acceptance in a society” (Coakley, 2015, p.108). These normal ranges of acceptance are created by societal norms. There are two kinds of norms; “formal, which are explicitly written rules or laws and informal, which are unwritten customs and traditions of how a person should think and act in society” (Coakley, 2015, p.108). In order to be able to examine deviance, one must first define the norms in their area of interest. For the purposes of this paper, the area of interest is football. Football is a social world in which the prevalence of deviance is high. There are many levels of football, and this paper focuses on High School football players.

The one person that has inspired me is Odell Beckham Jr.He has inspired me because he is very good at sports. He also inspires me because he plays football and so do I, and football is my favorite sport. He also makes amazing one handed catches. In fact he made the World’s best one handed catch. I watch dude perfect because they do trick shots and he was on the video and he made the world's longest one handed catch ever. He showed me that nothing is impossible and anything is possible. I also like him because he has my number in football my number is 13 and so is his. I also like him because he is strong and tough and a great leader to his team. Odell Beckham Jr. has only been in the NFL for only 2 years and is now the 4th best

Gracie is a 2007 American film about a teenage girl that wants to play soccer, but Gracie fights for her right to play soccer. Gracie goes through a series of judgments and obstacles, beginning with her dad’s rejection to work with her as he had, daily, with Johnny. “Dad,” she wonders, so sadly, “Did you ever wish I were a boy?” During her father’s early refusal to address her desire to play soccer, Gracie finds other behaviors to aggravate her father, dating one of the soccer players, drinking and smoking cigarettes and even coming close to having sex in a car. The movie is based on the youthful experiences of Elisabeth Shue. There are countless parts in this film's admittedly anticipated plot. There are some other great movies about women with men dominated sports that are inspired by true stories like Million Dollar Baby and A League of Their Own. Another movie that is not based on a true is Little Giants.

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

Through the use of cinematic techniques, Hidden figures, a movie directed by Theodore Melfi and Bend it like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha both explore the dangers that are inherent in a marginalised society. Each text demonstrates that hope for change is needed in society as it can build the momentum for an individual to strive. Through these texts, we see that people have no conscience about harming others until they learn the truth about their circumstances. This is depicted by the way in which Jess’ coach Joe behaves after learning about her cultural expectations in Bend it like Beckham. Similarly, this is shown in Hidden Figures by Mr. Harrison. Both directors emphasise that the abuse of power leads to corruption and this can be seen through the segregation between the black and white people in Hidden Figures and the way in which cultural values overrule the lives of the Bhamra’s in Bend it like Beckham. Both characters highlight the importance of creating opportunities rather than seeking it, this is shown when Mary Jackson goes to court for educational rights in Hidden Figures and in Bend it like Beckham when Jess stands up to her father who appears to be patriotic about his cultural values. The resolutions to both texts justify that determination comes from within and that though many factors can outweigh a person’s ability to triumph, consistency can lead to rewarding results. As an audience we are able to further increase our understanding of perseverance through