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What Is The Theme Of The Movie Rudy

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Rudy is one of the most motivational movies of all time. The movie starts with a scene of kids playing a pick up game of football, and the game is coming down to the final play. The ball is thrown to Rudy who misses it and the other teams wins. All his life, people have told Rudy he's not good enough, not smart enough, not big enough but nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame. From the time he was a young boy, Rudy would watch the Notre Dame games and imagen himself running out of that tunnel. His determination to join the Fighting Irish is really presented in the movie. However, his blue-collar family only laughs at his ambitions. They know Rudy will follow his father and brother’s footsteps to the local steel …show more content…

How we think other appraise us affects how we see ourselves. Rudy knew that everyone saw him as a small, weak, and useless. When he was a kid everyone knew not to give the football because he was simply not good enough. His heart a desired for football was beyond everyones else, and his passion to play for Notre Dame was even greater. However, he didn’t see how important his presentation of himself to others was. He would sleep in class, and when he wanted to go visit Notre Dame for a school trip the teacher told him to face reality that he didn’t have the grades to go to Notre Dame. Nobody believed in Rudy, and he started to believe it as well. When he came home he told his family that he was going to play for Notre Dame football. The family looked at him and simply laughed instead of supporting him. They were realist and Rudy was a dreamer. When he went to Notre Dame the nuns would see him as a joker; he didn’t let that get him down and he would keep coming back. In the movie he becomes friend with a janitor, who later revealed played for Notre Dame. This is the one person who believes and him and when Rudy quits he gives this speech on how he has come so far just to quit. A positive self appraisal starts in Rudy, and he only needed one person to believe in him. Rudy knew he was weak and not big enough to play football, but that all came to end when he put that golden helmet …show more content…

Self-fulfilling prophecies occur when we internalize others expectations or judgment about us. In the movie self-fulfilling prophecy is seen on how his parents thinking that Rudy should drop this dream of him going to play for Notre Dame. His parents especially his dad believes that Rudy will take his place in the steel mill. However, Rudy believes that his fate is playing football, and even as a little kid he acts if he’s talking to the players in the huddle. He doesn’t accept a no for an answer from anybody not even his girlfriend. She believes the same as Rudy’s father that he should stay and they should buy a small home and live their rest of their lives together in the small town. Rudy never let this believes put him down and he always faced this beliefs with his head held

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