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"42" Jackie Robinson

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“42” is a biographical American sports film released in 2013. It was directed by Brian Helgeland and it dwells on the racial integration in the professional baseball teams of America. The film captures the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season and tells the story of Jackie Robinson, a baseball player who wore jersey number 42 (giving the film its ultimate name). The major character in the film under the guidance of the team executive became the first African American to break the color barrier that existed in the American baseball teams. The film records the battle ...

The movie 42 is about the heartwarming life story of Jackie Robinson, a baseball legend who made history when he signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie shows the challenges that Robinson faced, particularly the racial discrimination he experienced among his fellow baseball players, his team’s opponents, the umpires and even baseball fans. The major theme of the movie is about racial discrimination and how it was eventually conquered by Robinson. The setting of the movie is between 1945 to 1947 in Brooklyn.
The protagonist in the story is Jackie Robinson as portrayed by Chadwick Boseman. He ...

Moneyball is a film that highlights the stages through which a football manager took a baseball team from a despised to a respected level. Billy Beane has an ambition of bringing up a baseball team yet finances limit him. Apparently, he cannot afford the minimum amount required to pay a player. This did not hinder him from pursuing his dream even as he sought advice from his friend Peter Brand who also becomes his close associates. They decided to hire players who would not mind playing at a lesser fee. This made his team to be the most despised as it was considered that with less remuneration, ...

The movies Mr. baseball and Gung Ho are very insightful as far as cultural interaction is concerned. The movies provide a clear and vivid description about the differences between American culture and Japanese culture.mr. Baseball is basically the embodiment of American culture trying to coexist with Japanese culture while gung ho is the mirror opposite in that it is the depiction of Japanese culture trying to inculcate itself into the American culture. Both movies are very important in terms of understanding both American culture and Japanese culture. These movies present the perfect juxtaposition of these two cultures that exist at ...

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

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This 2011 sports drama follows real-life coach Billy Beane (an entertaining Brad Pitt) who decides to take a different approach to assembling sports teams; unlike the old-school approach that divines players through straight play history, personality and likability, Beane consults Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) to come up with a new way to find good players - sabermetrics. The sabermetrics approach applied in the film is a way to objectively assess sports players and their records in baseball; with this, the only factors that matter are baseball statistics that analyze activity within baseball games. Instead of factoring in the subjective elements that many ...