James, a big man from a family background, should come across as unintentional and straight-forward. Even if he suggested to Mike to cheat and replace his teammates with someone else before the game, and cheated in the final and finally won, it would be difficult to change your impression of his straightforwardness.
As a villain, the campus overlord and his henchmen, apart from directly humiliating James and Mike at the party, did not play small tricks behind the scenes. As a villain, it is too honest. (However, this is also a very orthodox school bullying, and the students who cannot bear to be humiliated in public carry a heavy burden on the rest of their school life. This kind of thing is all too common from elementary school to college.)
Although James at the end The "surrender" to the dean was probably because of the disappointment of his teammates and felt that everything was meaningless, rather than a moral self-blame. (However, this behavior also allows him to let go of the ideological baggage of "I am (was) an immoral person")
Perhaps this is also a cultural idea conveyed by the film: Americans don't mind giving it mainly to children. In his works, positive characters convey such unethical thoughts. If a simple but unethical behavior can make it easier for you to achieve your goals, how many people are willing to do it? People who don't do it are seen as role models or, more easily, "idiots." If you want to be successful, you have to jump out of the box, like Mike's teammates who took advantage of the rules to win in a certain round; sometimes it even needs to violate social morals. And the two of them ended up messing around with the school. After being persuaded to quit, they were at peace and realized their ultimate dream. It can be seen that there is more than one road to the same success in society.
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