Elizabeth Lee Dr. William Sewell English 201 3 May 2016 Varsity Blues Movie Analysis Varsity Blues is set at a high school in a small town in Texas. This movie tells a story about 5 football players, their coach and their hometown, which idolizes them. The theme I get from Varsity Blues is about goals and heroes. Specifically of how you become a hero, how you can fall from being a hero , and how everyone worships these heroes. The director, Brian Robbins, uses several different techniques in every scene to complete the whole effect of this movie. Some of the different techniques he used in this movie include: angles, color, sound, distortions, and editing. In the opening scene of the movie you hear Mox (James Van Der Beek), the main …show more content…
where we see just how obsessed the town is with the football team, the Coyotes. During the pep rally scene you get this overwhelming feeling. The students, staff, townspeople, and others are all in blue and going stir crazy for the players and coach. This scene is complete chaos until the camera cuts to Kilmer at the podium where he’s standing like a ruler,looking over the crowd. Throughout the film Kilmer is depicted from low angle shots like this one, which portrays him to be very menacing and evil. Before the first game, we see how each player prepare for the game differently by following Mox around in the locker room. When we get to Kilmer’s office it cuts to inside and the shot is from behind Lance’s leg as a needle goes into it while focusing on Mox’s reaction. Then, it cuts to coach shutting the door in Mox’s face with a slam that echoed throughout and all you are left to see is the word “Courage” on the …show more content…
After, it cuts to a shot of the letter and in the lower left corner of the screen with his father’s head in the upper right. Mox’s father tried to interrupt Mox while reading and talk about the game. Here it shows that his father cares more about winning than his son’s success in school. During the scene before the final game there’s another montage of the town before the game. You see oblique shots of the town, set to the sound of church bells and where the football team is saying the Our Father, which shows how important the game is to everyone. After Kilmer gave the pep talk, the announcers are speaking, the team is yelling, and the song, “My Hero” by the Foo Fighters is playing, while the teams running into the stadium in slow
He says, “A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game. ”(Thayer 7). This shows that the people in the stands were deathly quiet because of how nervous they were about losing the game. He also says, “From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar, like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore. ”(Thayer 51).
In the story it describes each game as if you where right there watching it live. For example in one of their last games it gets intense and nerve racking, the author writes this perfectly giving the effect of suspense. For example on page 180 it states,” The pass was right on target, and Winnie gathered it in at the ten-yard line and scampered over the goal. Larry never saw it. A tackler crashed into him the moment he let go of the ball, and he went down in a heap.
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The film introduces Andrew, the athlete, he is cocky and arrogant, he is great at sports and is at the top of
The music helps portray the transition between a worried team full of buys to a confident team of
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Soon his team runs onto the field and begins to play. As a reader I felt that the imagery enhanced my experience, describing why the protagonist does these tasks. If the author had not used imagery like the baseball announcer approaching the protagonist or the description of the old fashioned uniform what Shoeless Joe was wearing, it would have been difficult to imagine the scenes. Since these scenes are the beginning of the story and are very important to the novel, the author used good words to make it visually
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