Sports movies themselves are not considered big road movies, and sports movies where racial discrimination runs through it are even rarer.
Just after watching Scream 5, I came to see 42. The two movies are not the same genre at all. Although they are sports-themed movies, they often tell stories quietly, rather than on the noisy stadium.
To be honest, if I don't watch this movie, I don't know that Dodge was in Brooklyn before. I don’t even know that in 1947, racial discrimination was still so serious in the United States. In some places, blacks and whites could not share the bathroom, and every baseball had the entrance of colored people.
Of the four major leagues in the United States, only basketball is completely ruled by blacks. America's hottest NFL, the team's minded quarterback is mostly white.
Harrison Ford, the old man, I didn't even recognize it. I was very fascinated by his Star Wars character... His face seemed to be different from this movie during Cowboys vs. Aliens. The film began with him, a boss who loves baseball, broke through the pressure to sign a black player, creating a precedent in the major leagues. The majesty and decisiveness of a team owner is shown at the beginning.
Jackie Robinson: You want a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?
Branch Rickey: No. I want a player who's got the guts *not* to fight back.
Jackie Robinson: You give me a uniform, you give me a number on my back, I'll give you the guts.
Robinson has encountered countless moments where he can't fight back.
Since Robinson entered the league, he has been constantly insulted and provoked. He was directly kicked out by the security guard. He was insulted by the opponent’s general manager with the most ugly words. He was squeezed out by his teammates. He was maliciously injured by his former teammates. Philadelphia because he was alone and all the players were denied access to the hotel...He survived all of this, he kept controlling his emotions and facing everything tenaciously. Greatness sometimes requires perseverance to make it happen.
The first thing that impressed me in this film was that the appearance of Jackie Robinson caused a lot of dissatisfaction among white people. Many people wanted to go to Robinson’s residence to provoke him. When Robinson was driven out by Wendell Smith, he happened to meet a group of people. White people, Smith speeds up the retrograde and throws them away. Robinson asked angrily, what do you want to do? Smith said that it was because someone was coming to trouble you, and Branch didn't want you to fight with them. Robinson, who was originally angrily, suddenly smiled: I thought I was laid off... I have seen professional team layoffs. I was in the locker room before the game and laughed with my teammates. After the game, I might go to the visiting team’s locker room to report. The paragraph resonates well. For Robinson, everything was on thin ice at the time, for fear of losing his position in the team.
The other thing is that the teammates started to really look like teammates. When he couldn’t fight back Ben Chapman’s insults, the white teammates (Dixie Walker, don’t you remember?) stood up to support him; at the beginning, Robinson waited for his teammates to take a shower before going there. Taking a shower alone, his teammates finally accepted him, and said "take a bath with me" and then found that the words were ambiguous and embarrassing, very loving.
When Robinson hit a home run, there was no applause in the cinema with few people, but there was indeed a lot of enthusiasm. Because this is based on real events, the end of the film introduces the subsequent encounters of relevant characters, and it also lets me know that baseball will one day commemorate Robinson and wear the No. 42 jersey from players to coaches.
There is a kid in the film who received a baseball from Robinson, and he grew up to become a professional baseball player Ed Charles (this is how you can think of some plots without guessing).
PS: As a colleague, I can’t help but pay attention to reporters in the 1940s wearing bowler hats, holding shorthand pens, and sighing, it’s great to have voice recorders and digital cameras.
In addition, I have to complain again. I have seen many Americans claiming to be world champions, but when I saw the World Series, I still wanted to complain... Although they may indeed be the world's number one in these sports...
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