Glory
Road
Disney’s, “Glory Road,” is a movie based
on a true story that encompasses the truth, struggle and victory of an all
black male basketball team from El Paso, Texas. Along with a story that showed
the behind the scenes aspect of an all black basketball team, there were also
key elements, such as music and sound, that added to the emotion of certain
scenes and created a sense of feeling to the watcher, or me I should say. I
will explain two scenes from the movie that shows humor and “teary-eyed” happiness
that are accompanied by certain genres of music.
Before I get started, I have seen this
movie several times. But until I was forced to actually listen to the type of
music in the background, I was very surprised as to the amount of songs that
DIDN’T have words… Needless to say I was upset. But I soon got over it after a
couple tissues and some chocolate…
The first scene I would like to talk
about is a scene when the basketball team is on a winning streak. They are
feeling good, they are rolling in the wins and just feeling extra spicy. The
beginning of the scene starts out with one of the older coaches who is singing
and old country song that is barely recognizable. After being heckled, one of
the white players holds up a portable music player and he plays a very boring,
monotonous song… Within seconds, the black players sarcastically turn off his
music and the attention turns to a black player in the very back of the bus who
says, “You guys need to get with this…” The song he plays is a jam, very upbeat
and obviously one to dance to because the lyrics say, “Were dancing in the
street. Down in Chicago and New Orleans. And in New York City!” As this song is
being played, it is showing little clips of victories the team is accomplishing
on the road and little clips of the players actually dancing on the bus. So
this song choice adds a sense of happiness and ease to the watcher knowing that
what the team is accomplishing is making them feel good and it also made me
feel good… and it made me want to dance. And I did. Anyways, moving on…
The next clip is at the very end of the
movie when the team has arrived at the airport back home with the NCAA
championship trophy in hand. As they arrive, the song that is playing is
singing these lyrics… “People get ready, there is a train a’comin. You don’t
have to worry, you just get on board…” This scene shows a sense of
accomplishment and reluctantly makes the watcher sit back in their seat and
grin because you see how happy the players are in that moment. It is a rather
slow song, but is has a very happy vibe to it.
Overall, this movie has a vast majority
of non lyrical songs,(which angered me), but it also accompanied by old school
gospel songs that just make you feel good inside. And I think that is what the
producer wanted, to make you feel good in the end. I personally really like
this movie but was slightly disappointed in the soundtrack. I still like it
though. It’s a classic! Go watch it… seriously… do it.
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