Inch by Inch Analysis
Victoria Jaded
26/09/2014
Grade 9
Inch by Inch In the movie Any Given Sunday, Tony D’Amato played by AL Pacino gives a classic pep talk in the locker room, named “Inch by Inch”. Tony D’Amato represents a father figure for his once-great football team, to fight for every inch in the final game of the season. He delivers his speech persuasively by relying primarily on ethos and pathos, and considering the audience, he relies mostly on common sense. This memorable speech can be seen as consisting of different parts distinguished by changes in tone and mood, culminating in powerful highly persuasive phrases throughout that fuels the players into action.
Tony D’Amato opens up the speech with his gruff and old voice, giving his audience an impression of his many experiences in life, making it perfect for this particular speech. The first section of the speech mainly focuses on building rapport with the players. The players of the team have all started playing individually, to outshine one another. This has resulted in many loses on the fields. In his speech he tells them “we heal as team or we are going to crumble”, letting his players know that, the only way to win this is playing the game as a team. To emphasize his point he requires the players to “believe him”. He then declares that if they keep playing as individuals, they are going to stay in “hell”, making the players feel humiliated by their actions and arguably, lose the player’s certainty. However, he asserts them that they can “climb out of hell” if they focus on “one inch, at a time”, making the team focus on small controllable steps and making them pay attention to every detail of the game. Not to mention the encouragement he creates to increase their will to fight for every slightest win of territory. His “inch by inch” statement is the most powerful phrase throughout the speech; it creates a powerful visual image they will remember for the rest of their lives and a kind of motto they will keep
26/09/2014
Grade 9
Inch by Inch In the movie Any Given Sunday, Tony D’Amato played by AL Pacino gives a classic pep talk in the locker room, named “Inch by Inch”. Tony D’Amato represents a father figure for his once-great football team, to fight for every inch in the final game of the season. He delivers his speech persuasively by relying primarily on ethos and pathos, and considering the audience, he relies mostly on common sense. This memorable speech can be seen as consisting of different parts distinguished by changes in tone and mood, culminating in powerful highly persuasive phrases throughout that fuels the players into action.
Tony D’Amato opens up the speech with his gruff and old voice, giving his audience an impression of his many experiences in life, making it perfect for this particular speech. The first section of the speech mainly focuses on building rapport with the players. The players of the team have all started playing individually, to outshine one another. This has resulted in many loses on the fields. In his speech he tells them “we heal as team or we are going to crumble”, letting his players know that, the only way to win this is playing the game as a team. To emphasize his point he requires the players to “believe him”. He then declares that if they keep playing as individuals, they are going to stay in “hell”, making the players feel humiliated by their actions and arguably, lose the player’s certainty. However, he asserts them that they can “climb out of hell” if they focus on “one inch, at a time”, making the team focus on small controllable steps and making them pay attention to every detail of the game. Not to mention the encouragement he creates to increase their will to fight for every slightest win of territory. His “inch by inch” statement is the most powerful phrase throughout the speech; it creates a powerful visual image they will remember for the rest of their lives and a kind of motto they will keep