Bad News Bears
Bad News Bears “Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world” these were the words once uttered by Babe Ruth. The Bad News Bears is a 1976 film, remade in 2005, about a little league baseball team full of misfits that were originally excluded from their Southern California baseball league for not being talented enough, but parent protest allowed for the team to be formed. The coach in charge of this team is a drunk, ex-professional baseball pitcher named Morris Buttermaker only thinking of himself and his paychecks. The team loses their first game after having to forfeit in the top of the first inning, quickly forming a rivalry with the Yankees. The team then wants to quit, but Buttermaker has a change of heart and really starts to coach the kids. After adding two more outcasts, Amanda and Kelly, the team miraculously starts winning games. They continue to improve and eventually find themselves competing for the championship against the arrogant Yankees. After a brawl and the hatred heating up the game ends with the Bears tying run being thrown out at the plate in dramatic fashion. The team doesn’t let this discourage them though, ending with a celebration for the ages. These two movies have almost identical plots but contain key differences in the main character and supporting cast. Quit often films contain many differences in the plot of the original story and its remake; however Bad News Bears does not. Small changes here and there are to be expected due to alterations in society. Most of the scenes that stuck in spectators’ minds after leaving the theatre in 1976 maintained the same in the re-creation of 2005. When Mr. Buttermaker pulls up to the field in his convertible he opens a beer, poor’s half of it out then proceeds fill the empty space with dark liquor. This opening scene sets the mood for the story, that the coach is a man who doesn’t care enough about this team of oddities to take one afternoon off from his life of
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