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Self - Guest. LSU Houston Texans Self - Featured Audience. Documentary Self. Self voice. Self - Former Football Player segment "Legends". As a senior, he scored 43 points against Colgate, rushed for yards, scored six touchdowns, and kicked seven extra points. While he finally got his due — he was just named the greatest college football player of all time by ESPN — he finished fifth place in that year's Heisman Trophy voting. Also widely considered the greatest professional football player ever, he was only the third overall pick in the NFL draft.
These are all well-known achievements. Until , college freshmen were not allowed to play in varsity games, so Brown spent his first year at Syracuse punishing his teammates in practice. Jim almost left the university after that year. Brown entered his sophomore year deep on the depth chart. Eventually, injuries to the starters forced Brown into the lineup on both sides of the ball.
Lacrosse guys are pretty tight. We all just want to win. Jim Lodice of Moriches, N. He said pro lacrosse players who are involved in camps and clinics are having a big impact on the kids. So, these guys coaching the kids makes it such a big deal for the kids to learn, and it makes it exciting for them to learn, so they listen to them more than a parent coach. Lodice helps coach a team of second graders who are learning the game.
The bruising physical contact in lacrosse was part of the appeal of the game to the great Jim Brown, but so was the role speed plays in the sport. Since that film, Lee's helmed several non-fictional film projects - the Kings of Comedy tour, two Pavarotti concerts and a John Leguizamo performance. But for all intents and purposes, Jim Brown: All American is his second documentary. And while it's obviously not as moving a subject as the Birmingham church bombing, I think with specific regard to visuals and editing it's a more impressive effort.
Even though it's compiled of documentary footage shot in a variety of settings, the color design is lush and glowing, with a nostalgic tint of browns and yellows. There is a return of some signature Lee shots with Brown standing proud and immobile as the world bustles around him. The stronger representation of Spike Lee, the visual artist here, might not be preferred by all, but as a fan of Errol Morris, I feel documentary is at its best only when the visuals are as powerful as the subject.
Editing is tight and compelling, and a few scenes montage short clips in the same rapid-fire fashion as his fictional works. The film follows the career of Brown, considered by many to be the best running back the NFL ever saw. It begins with his school and professional career, but later focuses on his post-football life and family issues.
His awkward retirement and transition from athlete to actor, specifically taking parts that were the antitheses of Sidney Portier's roles is an interesting segment. The film does a good job at conveying the awe of the game to even non-football fans with plenty of vintage clips of Brown dancing around the field. And the mobility of this massive athlete, the way he emerges from walls of opposing players is amazing. It's also fascinating to see how varied Brown was as a young athlete.
He wasn't just adept at football, but also basketball, tennis, baseball and most prominently lacrosse the second sport that got him into the Sports Halls of Fame. And as his friends recall, it wasn't like a powerful football athlete making do in all the other sports, he really did excel in ability and method for each sport he attempted.
So why isn't this film a 10 out of 10? Well, it's ultimately not so much an objective documentary as it is a commemoration and celebration of the man. Every testimony is glowing and even when the film touches on the rough spots in Brown's life, such as abuse of women, womanizing and his tenuous relationship with Richard Pryor, it plays more like a defense than a presentation.
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