Passionate on the field, high expectations and pressure off the field

Orland 2022-03-23 09:02:20

In the film, everyone who sees the new coach's town will mention the "Champion of the Continent". The coach is not so straightforward, so he still smiles under pressure. During training, the coach also asked the players to "defend the glory of the town and the championship of the continent", including the parents of some players. Therefore, the players are also under pressure, and they can't see the vitality and fearless hope that high school students should have. It's completely different from the mentality of the American high school students in "Crooked Boy Scott vs. the World" before... The
players did not see that this was a team that hit the championship during training, and a team that could reach the finals. .Because I can't see their confidence in training, I can't see the coach's special tactics and ways of employing people. Maybe I’ve watched a lot of this type of sports movies before, such as “Facing the Giants”, “Road to Glory”, “Moneyball”, etc. The teams in it are without exception, or have excellent and special of players form a complete team.
However, in "The Light of Victory", except for one Bubi, the characteristics of the others were overshadowed, and even after Bubi withdrew due to injury, the team suddenly broke out and killed a library after losing two games in a row. The situation of Ma saving the world is really unacceptable. Even after tossing a coin to enter the playoffs, it turned out to be the opposite of the previous sluggish state and went all the way to the finals... This process is actually a little rough in the handling of the film. Why is this team able to sing all the way, just because this team has won several continental championships before, so it is basically a sure thing for them to enter the finals? Or
maybe I have already placed an order on the championship team in my consciousness. Definition: rigorous training, full of confidence, no shortcomings.
Thinking that this film is mainly a high school team, not a professional team, I am not too demanding of them, and the story is mainly about warmth, family and friendship. It seems that the coach's final sentence "pursuit of perfection" is very popular.
The finale is not a happy ending like other inspirational films. The failed shots are handled quite well, and the shots are slow and contrasting, which is moving, and sometimes feels like this is life. The real blow is not that you didn't work hard, but that you have tried your best but still failed. This is the most demoralizing thing, because maybe you will start to doubt yourself and you will never recover.
At the end of the movie there is a line of subtitles: The team won the continental championship the following year. It feels a bit superfluous, and if it ends with a lack of beauty, it can still be regarded as a good movie of inspiration and warmth, and there is no need to give the audience a psychological comfort in the future.
In short, this is a film where players are under pressure off the field (except for the natural optimist like Bubby, of course), and the film is full of passion on the field. Sports events should be reversed, passionate, and blood boiled all the time~

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Friday Night Lights quotes

  • Comer's Girlfriend: [to Comer] I wanna be with a ball carrier. Give me one touchdown. Just one.

  • Mike Winchell: He designed his offense around one player. We're dead.

    Brian Chavez: We're not dead. You just need to start throwing the ball.

    Don Billingsley: We're dead.