Friday Night Lights Film Analysis

Friday Night Lights Analyzation
Author and director, Darnell Hunt, once stated, “Race is a core reality of the American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.” How might media portray anything but realistic expectations? Media is a tool that is constructed with a frame around it. This means that the media won’t always portray an accurate reality so to speak. When looking at the representation and realistic proportions of race in Friday Night Lights, the main characters were mostly white, a limited number of characters were people of color and there weren’t any Latino roles.
As time goes on there has been more attention brought upon the topic of how accurate we represent race and ethnicity within the media. Directors have tried to address this when filming shows like Friday Night Lights. This show is set in the small town of Dillon, Texas and is about a highschool that rallies around its football team.
This was when Brian “Smash” Williams is speaking to his girlfriend Waverly. Waverly who is also a person of color is asking smash if he can talk about anything other than football. Smash goes on by listing many other things he likes to talk about like plays, books, school, and music. Waverly found that hard to believe and went on by saying that she just doesn’t see herself being with Smash anymore if he continues to only talk about football. This dialogue was important to the episode because the plot is all about him and Matt Saracen going on a double date with their girlfriends. Ultimately “Smash” ends up telling his girlfriend that he is who he is and that if she doesn’t like that version of him then she should