Elizabeth Lee Dr. William Sewell English 201 3 May 2016 Varsity Blues Movie Analysis Varsity Blues is set at a high school in a small town in Texas. This movie tells a story about 5 football players, their coach and their hometown, which idolizes them. The theme I get from Varsity Blues is about goals and heroes. Specifically of how you become a hero, how you can fall from being a hero , and how everyone worships these heroes. The director, Brian Robbins, uses several different techniques in every scene to complete the whole effect of this movie. Some of the different techniques he used in this movie include: angles, color, sound, distortions, and editing. In the opening scene of the movie you hear Mox (James Van Der Beek), the main …show more content…
where we see just how obsessed the town is with the football team, the Coyotes. During the pep rally scene you get this overwhelming feeling. The students, staff, townspeople, and others are all in blue and going stir crazy for the players and coach. This scene is complete chaos until the camera cuts to Kilmer at the podium where he’s standing like a ruler,looking over the crowd. Throughout the film Kilmer is depicted from low angle shots like this one, which portrays him to be very menacing and evil. Before the first game, we see how each player prepare for the game differently by following Mox around in the locker room. When we get to Kilmer’s office it cuts to inside and the shot is from behind Lance’s leg as a needle goes into it while focusing on Mox’s reaction. Then, it cuts to coach shutting the door in Mox’s face with a slam that echoed throughout and all you are left to see is the word “Courage” on the …show more content…
After, it cuts to a shot of the letter and in the lower left corner of the screen with his father’s head in the upper right. Mox’s father tried to interrupt Mox while reading and talk about the game. Here it shows that his father cares more about winning than his son’s success in school. During the scene before the final game there’s another montage of the town before the game. You see oblique shots of the town, set to the sound of church bells and where the football team is saying the Our Father, which shows how important the game is to everyone. After Kilmer gave the pep talk, the announcers are speaking, the team is yelling, and the song, “My Hero” by the Foo Fighters is playing, while the teams running into the stadium in slow