Wednesday, February 06, 2008

COACH CARTER vs GLORY ROAD

No, Coach Carter is not my P.E teacher... Its a movie based the life of Coach Carter and his basketball team Richmond Oilers of Richmond Highschool. Samuel Jackson played Ken Carter the coach and one of my favourite artist Robert Ri'chard played ken's son, Damien Carter.

This movie is very, very inspirational and ambitious. It's about coach carter's abition to change his basketball players notjust into athletes, but student athletes. Meaning, he wants his boys to do well in both basketball and studies. When his boys grades fluctuates, he immidiately lock the gym door and won't open the door until their grades increases. I know, I almost cry when the basketball players refuses to play basketball before their grades increases eventhough the board of directors reopen the gym... well, if u watch it, u'll know wat i mean...

Next is Glory Road... also the same genre as coach carter, but this movie shows us how a basketball team of 7 blacks survive in the late 1960's with all the discrimination they get from the whites... The whites bullied them, kick their *** in the toilet, their hotel room was dirtied and there's warnings written in blood on the walls... Man, they got some huge guts to finally get to the national championship.

This movie didn't make me feel wanna cry, instead, i found myself jumping up and down, here and there, each time they score the ball. I was cheering for them as though it was a real game.

Ok... til next time...

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us."

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