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For The Love Of The Game Essay

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For the Love of the Game
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This movie is based on a story of man who has a passion for baseball and love for a woman. It shows the struggle between the two, baseball and Jane. This movie takes place in the 20th century in New York. Most of the movie is a flash back of Billy Chapel, Detroit Tiger's Pitcher, the events of the past five years. It shows his the ups and downs of his life with Jane and Baseball. It shows the importance of love for a person and love for a career.
The movie begins, and is not a flash back it is the actual present. It show Billy Chapel in a hotel waiting for Jane to call. Hours go by and she doesn't show, he finally gives up and drinks …show more content…

They stand outside talking about their relationship and how it is supposed to work. Jane decides at the end of their walk that night that when Chapel was gone he would do what he does and she would do what she does, no why didn't you call me, and no possessive stuff either, and they both agreed. Mean while in the present, he was pitching a great game. Then in his next flash back it shows him talking to Jane and inviting her to go see him and she says no, he ends up getting angry and hangs up on her. The next scene of the movie is Jane standing a Chapels door and he informs her that her was so excited to see her. The tragedy of this scene is that Chapels masseuses comes down they stair wet headed and in her panties, this obviously was not a pleasing sight to Jane . Jane turns very angered and walks away, Chapel chase her down and tries to convince her of his love for her. Jane just drives off and say that it will only end bloody for her. His next flash back is when Jane calls him in the locker room for some immediate assistance to find her daughter, which she never mentioned to Chapel. She told him that she ran away to her dads house which was near him, so he agreed to go pick her up. He went and got Jane's daughter, Heather, and took her back home, where he and Jane got on good terms again.
From this point it seems that he and Jane spend time really getting to know each other and really wanting to make this

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