The genre that my group has selected is the sports genre. I don't know about you, but I love sports and I think that having this as our genre for the movie will be great for all sports lovers. This can also help us in targeting a specific target audience to sports watchers. Sports films can fall into the overall genre of categories such as action, comedy. We are still brainstorming and discussing which overall genre we are going to use but these elements in sports movies will certainly be heavily present.
There was a recent movie titled American Underdog. This movie is a depiction of the story of Kurt Warner; a quarterback who overcomes the challenges of earning an NFL job, MVP, and Super Bowl champion. The movie generated $26.3 million in the box office.
Another popular sports movie that is one of my favorite movies of all time is Remember The Titans. This movie takes place in the 70s in Virginia during the peak of the racial injustice era. It follows the story of football coach Herm Boone who was recently hired to take over the team when the school was forced to integrate black people into their former all white school. Despite the team and players not liking this at first, through great coaching and the togetherness of sports, the team learns to love each other and instead see every person the same instead of white or black. This movie is both able to include the aspect of sports and football but also relate to society and teach a theme to love all people as well. It featured well known actors such as Denzel Washington and Ryan Gosling. On a budget of $30 million it earned $136.8 million in the box office proving its success.
What makes sports movies so popular and is why we want to do this genre is because so many people love sports. With this aspect alone, it makes a certain niche of people already intrigued in watching the movie just because they see their favorite sport on the movie poster or in a trailer. It is not just the aspect of the literal sport that makes these films so special. I believe that sports can teach many life lessons such as teamwork, confidence, never giving up, and many more. What is cool with sports is that these themes can be hidden in an entertaining and appealing way to sports viewers. While our film opening is not supposed to be a full story, we will make sure that there is a theme or some sort of development of a theme within our opening.
Sports today feature many stars that become household names. For example, when I say the name LeBron James everyone knows who I am talking about (if not you live under a rock). A popular characteristic to these sports films is that the protagonist is heavily focused and someone that the audience ends up rooting for throughout the film just like how they root for a favorite team or player in a real life sports game. We will make sure that whoever is our protagonist is someone that the audience can fall in love with and hopefully if we do it right they will.
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