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The pensive NCAA themed American film Blue Chips (Nick Nolte) features a cameo-cast and a crafted story about modern intrigue and controversy surrounding men's college basketball. A down-and-out NCAAB coach named Peter (Nolte) is dealing with trying to land superstars for his struggling Western team and is coaxed into using unethical inducement policies, leading him towards explusion and early retirement. Not onlike the NCAAB intrigue film He Got Game (Spike Lee) and the gritty NCAAF film The Program (James Caan), Blue Chips (Nick Nolte) offers us a storyscape into the world of negotiations surrounding ethics and customs and values in the marketing of student athletes. It's a winner for any parent looking to watch stories with their kids/youngsters indicating valuable arrows towards meaningful modern social diaries. It's a 4/5 stars pedestrian-friendly movie.
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"Blue Chips is a 1994 American basketball drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Ron Shelton and starring Nick Nolte as a college coach trying to recruit a winning team. His players were portrayed by actors as well as real-life basketball stars Shaquille O'Neal and Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and cameos include noted basketball figures Bob Knight, Rick Pitino, George Raveling, Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Jerry Tarkanian, Matt Painter, Allan Houston, Dick Vitale, Jim Boeheim, Dan Dakich and Bobby Hurley, as well as actor Louis Gossett" (source: Wikipedia).
We're invited to imagine Pete's fictional NCAAB team can be likened to a real drama NCAAB team such as Duke University Blue Devils (symbolic of American excellence) or Kentucky Wildcats (symbolic of American restoration stories). Today's student athletes feel the pressure to succeed in the spotlight, and they're often lured by temptations, putting greater burdens on their coaches to derive inventive ethics.
Pete is both coaxed by hucksters and then admonished by administative boards as he seeks to rebuild his once great program.
The various cameos of real-life NCAAB stars like Bobby Hurley (Duke) and George Lynch (UNC) give this college sports movie an extra feather regarding the accessibility of customs dialogue within the arenas of entertainment and competitive athletics.
This is one of Nolte's under-valued performances, and he's given us many great ones, including those in Affliction and The Thin Red Line.
If you think about it, today's NCAAB coaches have to wrestle with the egos of both parents and administrators while subtly serving as supervising 'father figures' to their college programs, making them even capitalism diplomats of the American Dream. It's all quite and sometimes tragically religious.
If the modern American Dream is all about trophies, then Blue Chips is a nice treatise on the conversation surrounding modern democratic marketing, so it's a nice Netflix movie-experience for your family if they're interested in the world of sports, consumerism, and of course, American dollars. While the movie at times feels a tad clique-like, like you don't know if you're involved if you're uninformed about NCAA culture and customs, it's a nice movie experience for a story about everyday dogma and fears. Pretty dialogue!
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
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"Blue Chips is a 1994 American basketball drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Ron Shelton and starring Nick Nolte as a college coach trying to recruit a winning team. His players were portrayed by actors as well as real-life basketball stars Shaquille O'Neal and Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and cameos include noted basketball figures Bob Knight, Rick Pitino, George Raveling, Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Jerry Tarkanian, Matt Painter, Allan Houston, Dick Vitale, Jim Boeheim, Dan Dakich and Bobby Hurley, as well as actor Louis Gossett" (source: Wikipedia).
We're invited to imagine Pete's fictional NCAAB team can be likened to a real drama NCAAB team such as Duke University Blue Devils (symbolic of American excellence) or Kentucky Wildcats (symbolic of American restoration stories). Today's student athletes feel the pressure to succeed in the spotlight, and they're often lured by temptations, putting greater burdens on their coaches to derive inventive ethics.
Pete is both coaxed by hucksters and then admonished by administative boards as he seeks to rebuild his once great program.
The various cameos of real-life NCAAB stars like Bobby Hurley (Duke) and George Lynch (UNC) give this college sports movie an extra feather regarding the accessibility of customs dialogue within the arenas of entertainment and competitive athletics.
This is one of Nolte's under-valued performances, and he's given us many great ones, including those in Affliction and The Thin Red Line.
If you think about it, today's NCAAB coaches have to wrestle with the egos of both parents and administrators while subtly serving as supervising 'father figures' to their college programs, making them even capitalism diplomats of the American Dream. It's all quite and sometimes tragically religious.
If the modern American Dream is all about trophies, then Blue Chips is a nice treatise on the conversation surrounding modern democratic marketing, so it's a nice Netflix movie-experience for your family if they're interested in the world of sports, consumerism, and of course, American dollars. While the movie at times feels a tad clique-like, like you don't know if you're involved if you're uninformed about NCAA culture and customs, it's a nice movie experience for a story about everyday dogma and fears. Pretty dialogue!
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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)
