Movie \"Coach Carter,\" 2005.I Choose Character, Event,

¶ … movie "Coach Carter," 2005.I choose character, event, idea effects. Work Cited. Coach Carter is an extremely inspiration film about a real life high school basketball coach who unabashedly values education over winning. This coach, Ken Carter, places his priorities in a highly unpopular way in the surrounding community of the Richmond High School Oilers -- most community members believe that success on the basketball court and a career in the National Basketball Association are the only chances for success for these young men. This central conflict is played out throughout this film based on an event which causes a number of highly influential effects. The primary cause of most of the dram in the film is Carter's decision to have the players sign a contract in which they must maintain a 2.3 grade point average in order to play on the team. The crucial effects of this event include the eventual college admission of six of the team's players, a palpable demonstration of Carter's prioritization of schoolwork over sports, and the dramatic saving of the life of one of the team's key players.

Probably the most critical and direct effect of Carter's decision to have the players sign a contract in which they must procure satisfactory grades to play on the basketball team is his punishment of the team when it is not able to meet those requirements. Midway through the film the coach discovers that his players have not satisfied the terms of their contract, which leads to Carter's locking the school's basketball gymnasium and forfeiting a number of games as a result. This act is a highly demonstrable indication of the priorities of Coach Carter, who fully believes it is more important to excel in the classroom than on the basketball court. Moreover, the coach also believes that the discipline students learn while studying is enforceable through playing basketball, all of which will help them to succeed later on in life. This effect allows the student athletes to full realize their basketball coach's conviction regarding his beliefs.

Although the lockout was eventually ended before the students had raised their grades due to a vote by the school board, the students complied with Carter's wishes by bringing up their grades before they played basketball again. Their willingness to do so represented a key facet of the movie, and signified the point in which Coach carter's prioritization of grades over basketball was actually embraced by and reflected in the actions of the students.

The ultimate demonstration of this transmuting of Coach Carter's values and priorities to his students is found in the conclusion of this movie. At the film's end, the audience finds out that six of the players on coach Carter's team actually were accepted into four-year universities. Many of those players (five of them), actually procured scholarships to do so. This fact is another key effect of Carter's decision to have his players sign a contract regarding their academic output at the beginning of the season. It ultimately alludes to the notion that Carter was successful in having his students sign this particular document, because it enabled them to reach college. In college of course, those same students had the option of playing basketball. However, they also had the option of earning an education, which cannot ever be taken away from a person, and which is applicable to several other facets of life that enable jobs, securities, and all of the attendant comforts. Carter's decision to have his players sign this written commitment emphasized his dedication to these students' education. The effect of this dedication was that six of his students actually made it to higher education, suggesting that the coach's methods were highly effective.

Carter's decision to have his players sign contracts stipulating their academic responsibilities also had a direct impact on the life Timo Cruz, who chose to quit the team rather than to initially sign the contract. Cruz had a tenuous relationship with Coach Carter and the Oilers, in which he joined and quite the team more than once. However, Carter's contract was the initial cause for Cruz's decision to quit the team. During the time in which Cruz was not playing basketball, nor taking his academic work too seriously, he engaged in a variety of subversive behavior with a cousin of his, Renny, a known drug dealer. Renny is eventually murdered; his murder reinforces the notion in Cruz's mind that such a thing could happen to him as well if he chooses not to follow the path laid out by Carter -- which embraces both basketball and academics. Cruz therefore decides to rejoin the team and, by fully engaging in his academic studies as well as mastering the sort of discipline that Carter requires of his players, is able to eventually attend college. Had Carter not initially required his players to sign contracts regarding their grades, Cruz would not have realized the seriousness of a subservient life outside of the team and would not have been willing to do what it takes to turn his life around and dedicate himself to his studies. He also more than likely would not have attended college.