Jerry Maguire

In his movie Jerry Maguire, director

Cameron Crowe illustrates how failures and successes are

all part of life and if you have love and are happy with your

life then you will shirley succeed. It is part of life to

experience failure which propels one forward to take risks

and make changes to find the answers on how to succeed

in lives little games. Jerry Maguire is an inspiring movie

based on this theme, demonstrating success and failure with

business endeavors, love relationships, friendships and self

realization. Relationships between characters in this movie

were numerous and were very intense. The relationship

between Jerry and Rod Tidwell was initially one of strong

control exhibited by Tidwell when he asks Jerry to yell

"show me the money!" and when he refuses to complete

the camel car commercial. This in turn adds to Tidwells

failure with company endorsements and extra cash. Jerry

also tries to exhibit control over Tidwell because he

expects him to act in a certain way which he doesn't

always do. Jerry proves this when he tells Tidwell the truth

about his arrogant actions towards society and the team.

Jerry knows it is in Tidwells best interest to tone down his

arrogance in order to succeed which he does. In the end

both men come to realize their faults and change their

behavior which results in the success of Tidwells career.

The other relationship that drives the story is that between

Jerry and his secretary, Dorothy Boyd. She worked as an

accountant for Jerry's agency, and was so inspired by his

"mission statement", she was the only one to join him out

on his own. Jerry has significant trouble in being alone,

Dorothy is compassionate to him. Both were definitely

taking a big risk but following their hearts. Control is also

shown when Dorothy is receiving advice from her sister

about the type of guy Jerry is. Dorothy of course doesn't

follow the advice and exerts her own controls over the

matter consequently falling in