guys get the job done on a consistent basis. But the world around them makes it all but

impossible to concentrate on the task at hand. These warriors are of course professional football

players. In Oliver Stone’s movie Any Given Sunday the lives of these warriors is portrayed on

and off the field. Stone does many things to create his football world, a combination of creating

a very realistic and glamourized world in which the character players live. By showing the

distractions around the game in this world(sports analysts, endorsements), and by using emotion

to show the need for all these players to be together as one, rather then being large than life

individuals. Oliver Stone, in Any Given Sunday, shows that despite the media and society’s

hunger for a strong individual or superstar from a sports team, what is truly needed is a strong

team and an even stronger belief in team ideals.

In the movie Stone creates very realistic lives for the players by bombarding the viewer’s

senses of sight and sound, this allows the viewer to gain an excellent insight into the conflicts

team, our will die as individuals”. as the camera sweeps around the room you can see that

loves but that will kill a team. This instantly puts a rift in the team and separates Willie from the

the women are talking very superficially about the importance of their husbands getting new

were unified as human beings rather than divided by want of power or influence, like the players

many times throughout, snatches of background conversations are louder than the dialogue.

shoes and getting their own name in the news as “and wife”. By shooting the conversation in a

game. This is the second speech of the movie. In both speeches Stone uses close ups of the

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