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Friday Night Lights Film Analysis
A.J. Williams
English 103 section 5
Ms Chavez
March 26, 2006

The High School Football Life

Football is all around us. You go from pee-wee flag football for the very young kids all the way up to the NFL or world football league as careers. In most of the population, not too many kids make it past their senior year of high school. The kids that don't make it past high school football savor every moment of their time on the field. There is nothing wrong with that, except if the people around the game take it overboard. In Friday Night Lights by Peter Berg, the town is obsessed with their high school team, the Permian-Odessa Panthers. Having been in football for over ten years, I know what the movie is talking about. It is good
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In one review I read, it said, "If there were a problem with the film, it would be the disturbing use of ADE (attention deficit editing)" (www.oregonherald.com). He says that the movie is very sporadic in the editing format. They don't stay on one scene for any length of time, but instead, jump around to different focal points all in that one area, like the stands, the coach's, the game, etc. I feel that the way David Rosenbloom, A.C.E. edited the movie was perfect. Sure knows that's how my mind went when I was playing football in high school. A thousand different thoughts running through my mind at once; the crowd, the coach's, your family, your personal interactions with friends, school, everything. In just rethinking my experiences and relating them to the movie, my mind is doing the exact same thing. I have a lot of different thoughts running threw my head at one instance. So my personal experiences make me think the way it was edited was good. To someone that hasn't dealt with that type of pressure and work load, it may look too jumpy. Not staying on one scene long enough to understand it. That's what I love about the movie, its almost exactly what I felt and went threw. The way producers introduced the final game was exactly how it is too. With me not making it to the state championship, I felt like my last game was exactly like it though. The way the players walk …show more content…
Yes, it may make you play better, but on the inside, it is not good. Since the town is in suck a crappy state, the people have nothing to look forward to. All they have is their past football experiences and the season coming up. The parents live their lives threw their children that are playing. They think that they will do the same thing that they did, which in turn will make the parents feel like the old days. The players don't want that. Yea, they do want a state championship to call their own, but they also want their own personal experiences. With the parents living threw them, they don't have a chance to do

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