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    Peter Berg’s Friday Night Lights – Story of a Town‚ a Team and their Dreams! The movie based on a series of true events taking place as related in Buzz Bissinger’s best-selling bookFriday Night light: a town‚ a team and a dream will take you into the world of action packed adventures leaving you clingy to the couch. The story line of the movie pictures the 1988 football season of the Odessa – a high school football team called Permian Panthers‚ small town in West Texas where everyone’s crazy

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    fans‚ many people put their whole physical and mental being into the game. Friday Night Lights tells the realistic story of the Odessa Permian High School Panthers football team through the 1988 football season. The book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger exposes the truth about life in a town that is not just home to football fanatics but also home to racist and economically challenged people. In the movie Friday Night Lights‚ Peter Burg (the director)‚ tells us a story of a team and a town that

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    Friday Night Lights Captivating audiences and myself from the first episode‚ Friday Night Lights‚ has a complex and dramatic plot line. Dillon‚ a small Texas town‚ rallies around the high school football team on their journey to the state football championship‚ but the voyage is not without love‚ drama‚ and learning experiences. The characters within the program have diverse dispositions‚ representing the wide variety of personalities within Southern culture. Friday Night Lights exploits the events

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    Friday Night Lights reminds me of the movie‚ Remember The Titans. It started with the blacks hating whites and whites hating blacks. The didn’t want to play with each other‚ go to the same school. The blacks had to eat at their colored restaurant‚ they didn’t feel comfortable playing football with them either but the coaches were not having the racist things on their team. The coaches made them work together and be a part as a team. The first culture i’m writing about is social groups. Social group

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    The film Friday Night Lights (2004) is based on the real-life story of the 1988 Permian Panthers football team in Odessa‚ Texas. The film is a more fictionalized account of the book it’s based on‚ written by author H.G. Bissinger and downplays the more intense issues that plagued Odessa when Bissinger followed the team during the 1988 season. (Briley 1) The film follows Coach Gary Gaines (portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton) as he coaches the Panthers in the football obsessed town. The film portrays

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    question without a simple answer. “Are elite athletes born or made?” is the title of one CBS sports article. This article debates the idea of the natural born athlete‚ and I plan to address my own personal thoughts on this subject. The movie Friday Night Lights had a character that closely follows my beliefs of the natural athlete. That character was Boobie Miles. Boobie was portrayed as the perfect depiction of being born elite. He didn’t need practice‚ Boobie was a natural. His teammate asked

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    In both "Friday Night Lights‚"by H. G. Bissinger‚ and "Quiet Strength‚" by Tony Dungy‚ their are two coaches who are very similar‚ yet very different in their own ways. In one coaches locker room you may find an aggressive‚ hostile written note. While in the other coaches locker room you’ll find bibles. Both coaches have a winning mentality‚ how they go about winning though is a different story. The quite‚ calm‚ and faith first mentality of one coach‚ verse the loud‚ aggressive‚ in your face way

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    The hit Netflix show that took everyone by storm over the years is‚ Friday Night Lights. The show is centered on a town in Texas where a local high school football team has captured the whole town in the midst of the playoff season. The Texas high school team star football team is called the Panthers; the show opens with a week before a huge game against a more than capable opponent. One of the first characters the viewers see is Tim Riggins‚ a football player that loves his booze a little too much

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    “Imagine traveling a 90 billion light years traveled like that.” The Murry family has been without their father for four years‚ ever since he discovered the tesseract where you wrinkle through space. To find their father Meg‚ Charles Wallace‚ and Calvin follow mysterious space travelers known as Mrs.Whatsit‚ Mrs.Who and Mrs.Which. The movie is better than the book because of the subplots‚ darkness‚ and relationships. The movie is better because it adds more subplots. One of the subplots is how Meg

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    powerful‚ a book‚ or a film? A question that is asked all the time when comparing and contrasting a book that’s made it to the big screen.The story tells of a 12 year old girl named Meg and her 5 year old brother Charles Wallace who’s father has disappeared with the help of Meg’s classmate Calvin O’keefe and the three misses Mrs‚ Whatsit‚ Mrs‚ Who‚ and Mrs‚ Which they will set off on a journey to find Meg’s father and save the universe from the darkness. The movie was more powerful than the book because

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