Avainsana-arkisto: Sports

The Dream Begins

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Goal! The Dream Begins is the first part of goal trilogy, all of them tells about Santiago Muñes. Who is very talented and skilled young footballer. The Dream Begins tells how to Santiago comes the real professional player.
Santiago lives in poor family in Los Angeles, and they lives illegally in America. They left Mexico behind ten years ago, because of bad conditions and their mother had abandon them. Santiago works in La as a gardener and in Chinese restaurant and plays only for hobby in local team which consist of work friends. But Santiago’s live turns up suddenly when former Newcastle United player and scout Glen Foy notice Santiago and offers to Santiago try out to Newcastle United (big club in England). So Muñes works really hard for his dream in two work, and he gets the money that he needs, to travelling in England but his father stoles those money and spent moneys to the new car as an investment of fathers gardener firm. Anyway he gets the money from his grandma and goes to Newcastle secretly for his father. In England hi lives whit Foy and training in Newcastle United his try out is only a one month, so he has real hurry to show his skills to coaches. At first everything is not going so well, but anyway he gets place for a team, his first game is totally flop because he has asthma and jealous team meat breaks his inhaler. After game coach lets him go but way to airport Galvin Harris comes to same taxi, who the is star of the team and he talks to second chance to Santiago whit coach. Next downhill on his way to first team, when his dad dies suddenly in La. But Santiago decides to stay in New Castle whit his girlfriend who’s the nurse of team. The movie end for a big game which decides teams destiny. And for a last minutes New Castle gets free kick, and Santiago shoots the winning goal.

Kuno Becker acts Santiago Muñez. Becker is not so famous actor, but I think that he was really good. All Goal movies are very special for that at there are also real life football players acting them selves. however Santiago Muñez is not real life player and not also Galvin Harris (=Alessandro Nivola). But it make that movie very realistic when Santiago’s other team mates on the field also real life players.

The Dream Begins is a 2005 film directed by Danny Cannon, he has known about C.S.I tv series. The movie’s plot was good so good for him. Movie didn’t have so much special effects than I expected, but camera work was good because camera moves a lot.

The thing in the movie, which I didn’t like was that in the games Santiago were much better than the team mates and that feels very unrealistic in real life.
Movie’s genre is of course sport movie, also drama and romance.
movie’s soundtrack is PlayGround Superstar by Happy Mondays.

I recommend this movie for everyone who watches sport. I would give for grade: 8/10

Written by Paavo

Coach Carter

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Coach Carter is a truly inspirational movie based on a true story about a high school basketball coach Ken Carter. Samuel L. Jackson, who is a perhaps one of the most recognized actors in Hollywood today, does one of his best roles as Ken Carter. The movie is directed by Thomas Carter and is written by Mark Schwahn and John Gatins

Plot:

In the beginning of the movie Ken receives a job from his old high school Richmond as a basketball coach for the schools basketball team ”Richmond Oilers”. With his strict rules coach Carter manages to get his players to thrive on the basketball court without any losses. When Carter realized that all of his players aren’t doing well in school he makes a contract for his players to sign wich stated that they must maintain all of their grades above C+ things start to go wrong. Most of the players in team do not manage to keep their grades up as agreed, coach Carter locks down the school gym creating a scandal in the little town of Richmond where basketball is everything.

Characters:

The movies main role is played by Samuel L. Jackson who is also the only highly recognized actor in the movie, with the exception of maybe Channing Tatum and pop-star Ashanti. It is hard to describe other characters in the movie than Jacksons since the movie tells very little about the backgrounds of the basketball teams players, so i can pretty much only tell about Ken Carter. Coach Carter is a middle-aged man with a warm heart, from the very beginning he truly cares about the players in his team, and he really wants them to succeed not only on the hardwood but in life also. Ken Carter is relentless workaholic who has questionable ways to teach ”his boys” how to survive in life.

Genre:

On Internet movie database Coach Carter is listed in the genres category as a sports-drama. Due to its quite happy ending i would not list it as a drama, but since it’s not really an action movie or comedy it cant be described with other genres.

Camerawork:

Since the movie sets in the late 1990’s the cameras are used with some kind of soft sepia filter, wich gives the viewer a feel that the movie was really filmed in the same era as it sets.

In conclusion the movie describes the story of Ken Carter and Richmond Oilers very well. And after a bit research i found out that the real Ken Carter was on every set of the movie when it was in the making. I would also call it one of Samuel L. Jacksons finest work.