Brittany Garcia
Title: Necessary Roughness
Director: Stan Dragoti
Year: 1991
I absolutely loved this movie Necessary Roughness. The film was about an entire college football team that was banned from playing due to steroids and the coach fudging with their grades. The school ridded of the team and coaches. They later found new coaches, all new players, and so forth. This movie meant more to me than most others I watched because I have a personal connection with it. It reminded me of my high school softball team. My freshman year, we were playing with girls who had never played before and we were not very good. Then by my senior year, we ended up coming second in our district. This was a huge accomplishment considering where we had started three years prior. In the movie, they show the emotion in all the actors from the beginning when the team was awful to the end when the team ends up winning their first game all season. The emotions were so strongly portrayed, I felt that I was a part of the movie.
Toward the end of the movie I began to notice the different angles used. For example, at the very end when the football team wins, I saw two things. One is the medium close-up and the close-up shots where the cameras really focused on the emotion expressed through the faces of the actors. Also, in another scene the players lifted a key player on the team up on their shoulders, in this instance the camera went from a flat view to a low-angle shot. This to me showed the importance of that particular player and how significant he was to the win.
After watching several movies from 1991, this has been one of my favorites. I just feel that I related so well with the story behind the film. The angles were utilized very well too.
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