So far Hoop Dreams has provided fascinating insight into the world of inner city and High School basketball. I have always known of the socioeconomic pressures that come with the inner city life but seeing it play out for Arthur is eye opening. There is a clear difference in skill level and maturity between William and Arthur from the beginning. However, the gap is widened after Arthur is forced to leave St. Joe’s. Arthur’s maturity and growth stagnate while William starts to excel on the court and in school. The biggest lesson showed so far in this movie is the importance of family life. Despite Bo Agee stating in the beginning of the movie that he does not want his son to experience what he did, Arthur is given less structure and
I have never seen such ambitiousness and hope, I was amazed how strong everyone in the video were, not just Arthur and William ,but also their family and friends. Such attitude and hard work is what we real need to be successful. There were so many obstacles that were in both of the players yet they fought for what they love and their goals. The Hoop Dreams show how our system is set to only benefit those who have the money not those who have the dream and the skills. If william and Arthur had a stable financial, their life would have been so much easier to make it to the professional level. There are many issues that these two athletes faced in young aged, money, family issues, struggles in school are the common issues both Arthur Agee and William Gates faced.
Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.
The purpose of the documentary “Hoop Dreams” directed by Steve James, is to show how people from different backgrounds can create their own destiny based on the choices they make for themselves. The beginning of the documentary introduces the viewers to William Gates and Arthur Agee’s aspiring dreams to become NBA basketball players. Steve James uses rhetorical and cinematic techniques to achieve this purpose.
Agee, both from Chicago became a professional basketball player to escape the life of poverty. Hoop Dream is a great example of how sports can get you out of poverty. In the movie it showed how the two inner-city boys had all odd against them, and how the system kept knocking them down. At a young age, thy both had the same dream, and were willing to work harder than anyone else to give their family a better lifestyle. Both young men lived on the north side of Chicago, in housing projects. They were limited to where, when and who they can hang with or around, because it was so easy to get caught up in all different gangs, violence and drugs that was in the community. The time that they did spend outside they were playing basketball, playing little pickup games. Scout from St. Joseph High School seen how talented they were and wanted them, and that he did. Even though the boys’ families wanted, the best for them they could not afford to move closer to the high school; so the boys had to wake up at five in the morning and make that hour and forty minutes commute to school every day.
Even though A League of Their Own is an empowering movie for women, many have argued that the gender discrimination between male and female could never allow for a proper group identity to develop. Constantly these women were seen by society as scabs for the men who were off at war rather than a respected league. Role Acceptance (Weinberg & Gould, 2014) stresses the importance of inclusion for well-being, and predicts that rejection from important social groups can be detrimental to a team’s dynamic. Thus, not having role ambiguity is necessary for positive self-confidence and cohesion of a team when their is a desire to know group roles (Weinberg & Gould, 2014). This process of role ambiguity began in the recruiting process for every female
There a many stereotypes that are explored in the film Hoop Dreams. Both William Gates and Arthur Agee fit into the stereotype of great basketball players who aren’t very successful academically. Over time as they advanced in High School this stereotype manifested to where they were unable to play at the professional level they all dreamed about when they were kids. As most parents would want to believe about their children, they want them to be successful academically and athletically. This stereotype was exploded as the documentary progressed.
In the reading, Violence in Movies: Cinematic Craft or Hollywood Gone Too Far?, the response that states "Point: Hollywood, Stop Exposing Our Kids to Violence" is more persuasive than "Counterpoint: Hollywood Filmmakers Should Not be Villainized for Movie Violence" because it provides better-supported facts that are reliable and credible. The "Point" response explains how violence in movies has become very excessive and is allowing children to act out and think it is okay because of what they see on TV. While, the "Counterpoint" response explains how Hollywood filmmakers should not be punished for their creative writing and that parents should monitor their kids and decide whether or not they should be watching it.
The 1994 Documentary, Hoop Dreams, directed by Steve James, is a masterful display of human drama. The story-line is so captivating and theatrical that it seems crafted from fiction. The Documentary boasts cinematic techniques and private investigating that rivals most film of this time period. The film follows the high school careers of two boys from the Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago. The aggressive authenticity of cinema verite does not only peek through in character emotion, but film’s beginning came together naturally. James tells Robert Ebert in 2009, "A
After spending the past few days sitting, watching the neighborhood boys play basketball on the Bronx Court in New York, Wes Moore finally found his chance to join them. Because of the uneven teams, Moore was invited by one boy to play with the
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Hoop Dreams was a documentary made in 1994, directed by Steve James. The film follows two boys named Arthur and William from eight to twelfth grade as they chase their dream of becoming professional basketball players. They both go to Saint Joseph’s High School, the prestige suburban school famous for their basketball team. But when Arthur has to go to a regular public high school because of economic issues, the film becomes a documentation of both the boys, with the help of their families, battling the physical and social obstacles that are blocking their path.
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