Communication In The Film 'Love And Basketball'

In the movie Love and Basketball, the main character Monica has a love for basketball that runs so deep it is expressed through her physical appearance. Monica is what people would describe as a tomboy; she is a little rough around the edges and pays no mind to her physical appearance. All of the clothing she wears must have some relation to basketball as it is either loose-fitting or has an image of a basketball. Her hair is usually unkempt, in a ponytail, or in braids so it is out-of-the-way and does not interfere with her ability to play basketball. The movie follows Monica from childhood to adulthood, but focuses on her teenage/college experience, therefore in many scenes she like many teenagers, dresses comfortably in jeans and a t-shirt.

Basketball was a new experience to me a few years ago, but i never realized I was going to love it. When I was younger, I’ve always wanted to play the sport of basketball, and I got my opportunity to play when I was in fifth grade at Monte Vista Elementary.

Love and Basketball was a great movie. The film Love and Basketball is a romantic film that was released in 2000. The leading characters are Monica Wright and Quincy McCall. Quincy McCall has one dream in life and that is to play professional basketball in the NBA just like his father Zeke, a Los Angeles Clipper. Monica Wright is the tomboy who moved in next door. She has aspirations to play in the NBA also, despite her gender. In 1981, Monica moves to L.A. next door to Quincy. They were 11 at the time they met and both of them live for basketball. As the two grow up together in the 1980s, a mutual fascination for basketball draws them together on and off the court. Their love-hate relationship lasts into high school, with Monica 's edge and Quincy 's top-dog attitude separating them, except when Quincy 's parents argue and he climbs through Monica 's window to sleep on the floor. As high school ends, they come together as a couple, but within a year, with both of them playing ball at USC, Quincy 's

Basketball was my favorite sport growing up. I’ve played since I was little and I still play the game today. I played basketball at my elementary school, St. Cecilia, from Kindergarten till 8th Grade and also played AAU basketball for about 2 years before entering High School. Going into my freshmen year of High School, the first sport I played was basketball. Tryouts began in about the start of November and ended about 2 weeks after. I had made the Freshmen A team. I was excited and as the season progressed, we didn’t win many games but I still had fun playing. Nearing the end of the season, golf was another sport coming up that I also wanted to try and play. I say “try and play” because at the time, I was also going to play AAU basketball. I had set in my mind that I was going to play basketball for all of my four years of high school, but my parents pushed me to tryout for golf. When the basketball season ended, golf tryouts started. Tryouts lasted for about 2 weeks, and I made the JV team. When I found out I made the team, I was very surprised. I hadn’t put in the hard work as others before tryouts came around, but the coach saw potential in me and that I can become a great player. The coach saw so much potential in me, that every week, I kept progressing in skill and fine tuning my mechanics. Halfway through the season, about 4 or 5 weeks after I made the team, my coach gave me the chance to play with the Varsity Golf team for a couple days. I was excited and eager to

I really loved this movie because when I watched it I wanted to be just like them. They were a young African-American couple who went through the up and down roller coaster of romance and being athletes. Quincy McCall and Monica Wright grew up in the same neighborhood after Monica family moved in the house next door to Quincy and have known each other since childhood. When they first met each other they didn’t really say anything they just kept looking at each other. Quincy was the best basketball player out of all his friends, so he was use to winning and getting any girl he wanted. Monica came down one day to play basketball with him and his friends she ended up beating him, which made him mad so he pushed her down on the ground and messed her

Using the movie Love Jones I will talk about the characteristics of male/male and female/female relationship as they are portrayed in the film. Then I will talk about how different the female/male relationship is and focus primarily on their communication styles. There is some harsh vocabulary included in my essay but only in quotations that I have taken from the movie itself to communicate what was going on in the scenes I have chose to talk about.

Watching movies is a great way to learn and study different interpersonal relationships. A lot of them are just like real life situations that happen every day between people. One of my favorite movies is Love and Basketball. I chose to talk about this movie because in my opinion it really focuses on the relationship of the two main characters. There are good moments and bad ones in their relationship with one another. I also believe there are a lot of different things the characters could have done and said that would have made communicating with each other a lot easier. It’s one of my favorite movies and I have learned a lot about communicating from it.

A literary element that are conveyed in the theme of the book, Michael Jordan, would be the facts that are given to his sports career time line and what he did as a famous athlete. Michael did not make his high school basketball team his sophomore year, so he would get up early and practice, showing persistence (Edwards, 1995, p. 7). This helped to convey the theme of the book because Michael did not give up on basketball. He would wake up at six in the morning to practice (Edwards, 1995, p.7). An example of the theme is present in the book Michael Jordan when the author Nick Edwards states that he “led his team to the 1982 NCAA Finals” (Edwards, 1995, p. 10). Michael Jordan retired after nine years, but missed sports so much that he went to playing baseball for one season. His parents taught him that being a good person is better than being a good ball player. “He will often visit sick children in the hospital” (Edwards, 1995, p. 26). After missing basketball, Michael decided to go back and play for the Chicago Bulls. Michael was a good ball player and persevered through being denied a spot on his high school sophomore basketball team and went on to be a famous basketball player.

“But, for some reason, saying love is something different. And when Wade is asked whether he and James use the word, he instinctively recoils. "Not like with my wife!" he exclaims. "It ain't like looking at each other eye to eye, like, I love you.” After Wade takes a second to think. "You know, yeah, we say love," he says. "There's nothing wrong with men expressing love for each other, if you're secure in your manhood and who you are. So, yeah. We'll end a conversation with Aight. Love. Or, Love you, bro. We have that kind of

We know its lust and not love because they cannot even talk to each other and Ben continues to call her Mrs. Robinson, even when they are in bed. The affair will last for for most of the summer till one day Elaine , Mrs. Robinsons daughter comes up during an attempt at conversation. Mrs Robinson is furious and makes Ben promise to never date her daughter he agrees but you get a sence that the film is changing direction. Enter Elaine and Ben’s next stepin his journey, Love and an attempt at romance.

Interpersonal Communication is a type of communication that is associated between two or more indivisuals. The movie Crash is a good example of interpersonal communication in todays society. There has been a rumor that the film flourishes with the way that individuals can sort out the events and feelings of the characters through their own encounters with interpersonal communication (Farris, 2007). It is actually being utilized as a technique for experiential way of learning (a system for securing learning where by the individual adapts through lived experiences,experimentation, reenactments, pretends, or review features and film) in classrooms that emphasis on communication (Villalba, 2008). The film takes place in present day Los Angeles

Consequently, Terrell’s search for love through basketball and with Valerie affected his college choice. With basketball, Terrell devoted hours of time to basketball practice and improving individually. It was obvious that Terrell put in the work on his fundamentals in basketball: “From his junior to senior year, Terrell’s scoring average rocketed from 21.3 to 28.7 points per game, his assists per game dramatically increased from 2.3 to 6.5, and his rebounds per game escalated from 8.4 to 13.3 per game” (Feinstein 342). Furthermore, Terrell expanded his offensive and defensive basketball knowledge to become more adroit when playing. Due to his passion of the game, boring practices were more competitive and exuberant than they were

Within Hollywood’s movies depiction of drug addiction, many have failed to represent all true aspects that come along with such lifestyles. The movie, The Basketball Diaries, is based off a novel Jim Carroll wrote from his own diary entries. As a teenager growing up in the sixties, Carroll reveals his progression of drug abuse which eventually leads him addicted to heroin.Heroin is a white powder derived from morphine found in opium. It is commonly prescribed as a painkiller, but is also a popular street drug.The director casted Leonardo DiCaprio as Jimmy, and concentrates on creating the character as a stereotypical drug abuser. DiCaprio’s most captivating scene is when he is going through heroin

The movie When A Man Loves A Woman depicts the journey of Alice, a mom, wife, and alcoholic as she comes to term with her disease, and seeks treatment. At the beginning of the movie, it is not easy to tell that Alice does in fact struggle with alcohol addiction. She is a lively and energetic lady that has a large sense of humor that seems to be equally shared with her husband, Michael. As the movie progresses, it shows the fear and worry that her oldest daughter, Jess, has about her mother and her disease. Morning after morning, Alice wakes up and fights a hangover, only to come home and find any reason to drink again.

“Tommy wake up Gage and Henry just pulled up and you have practice in 40 minutes” mother said.