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
Yes, you can apply self-fulfilling prophecies to this video, “self-fulfilling prophecies occurs when a person's expectation of an event affects his or her behavior and therefore makes the predicted outcome more likely to occur than would
Rudy instantly hooks up with Kelly and becomes too involved between Kelly and her husband Cliff Riker. Even though it is ethical for him to have concern for her condition, he did not make the right choice after this. He went too personal into Kelly’s life. Spending lot of time with Kelly and beating Cliff, however, were the immoral actions taken by Rudy. He did not maintain the integrity and competence of the legal profession.
Ultimately, Rudy is deported because he is deemed not-American by virtue of his brown body. His English, Dodgers hat, and knowledge of U.S. popular culture (as demonstrated by his knowledge of Death Valley Days and John Wayne) are completely ignored as signifiers of his Americanness. Instead, his brown body is taken as a more important signifier.
Rudy and Shawn's lives had major differences, but many aspects of their lives were the same. Not only did they both want to succeed at their goals and dreams, but they each wanted to become their own unique person and inspired many everyday people to do spectacular
When someone gives a speech there are different elements of communication that are used throughout. One element of communication is the message, or the information being communicated. In Fortune’s speech in the movie Rudy, Fortune discussed how Rudy was short and small and was lucky to have even been on the team and to be getting a degree from the University of Notre Dame. His main message was that Rudy needed to rethink his decision of quitting the football team and that he felt that Rudy should continue playing. Another element of communication is the listener, or the receiver of the message. The receiver of the Fortune’s intended message was Rudy, who had quit the University of Notre Dame football team because they were not playing
The second aspect that was noticed bout Rudy was the dedication that he kept consistent. No matter how hard times may have seemed to Rudy, he was too stubborn to give up. He didn't have the grades to attend Norte Dame, so what did he do? He walked into a small catholic school and applied there. He did this to earn credit and to eligible for the fall semester at Norte Dame. That fall semester Rudy got into the school of his dreams and immediately became a hitting dummy for the Football team. Kenneth Turan wrote a review on the movie and he states "It meant a lot for Rudy to play football for Norte Dame, his obsessed determination begins to look more inspirational as the movie goes on" (1).
As a parent explaining Rudy’s actions, I would tell him that your admiration for one athlete can be extremely exuberant but painting yourself his skin color in this time where prejudice of different people was very high, it clearly isn’t the smartest move. The itch in my heart is that it is morally wrong to paint yourself black and if you go that extreme with your admiration, Rudy can honestly be taken and have a higher chance to be killed by Nazi Germany.
A problem with the movie was that it skipped over many details, small and large. One of the most important details the movie skipped over was when Rudy went inside his father's shop, and saw his new suit. This was important to the plot because it showed Rudy’s feelings of pain, loss, sorrow, and sadness, which gave the readers a way to feel what Nazi germany felt like. It is important to know these details before watching the movie because then you know these feelings prior, which leads to a much deeper understand of the
Mark's self fulfilling prophecy:- Mark's expectation about himself was to achieve the highest point of his career in his company, corporation presidency. He made this expectation at his own based upon his previous career success;
He made new friends, plays with everyone outside after school, and has his obstacles in life. Sometimes the problems that Rudy faces are different than our everyday ones, however; this is because of the time period and the significant events of WWII going on. An example of the challenge he faced was when he had to defend
Statements like “ Anyone who knows me will tell you I’ve always had a healthy sense of myself and my abilities.”, and “ By the time I got to Brown University, I had certain abilities and people knew I knew it.” shows Randy’s pretentious ego. He shared a story of when he was in college, of how his favorite professor, Andy Van Demand, took him on a walk and said “Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as being so arrogant, because it's going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. Like Randy, I learned that people who are smart, but not arrogant, will go the furthest in life. This piece of advice really spoke to me, and I was able to take away a lesson of humility and
Self-fulfilling prophecy is an idea that becomes true when acted upon (p. 88). A real life example of self-fulfilling prophecy that happened to me is when my I went to the beach with my wife and children (5 boys). I do not let my youngest son swim far because he may drown. He began to insisting to go out with his brothers so I decided to let him go. By the time he was half way he almost drowned. Because of this we bought him arm floaties and now he is able to be with his brothers. Another real life example is when I bought a bike for my boys. I did not think that my older boys were going to have a problem riding the bike. When I finished put the bike together and made that they were sturdy, I give it to the older boys and they were able to
I think that another way to define ‘self- fulfilling prophecy” can be “what you think, you become”. Meaning how you act, or what you believe will come true if you have it set in your mind, and sometimes our thoughts can cause us to act in certain ways, or be a certain way. I have encountered this in my own life, not directly myself, but through a close friend. This person tends to put herself down, and joke as though she is not smart or competent to do things. However, she is actually a very intelligent and capable person. She is constantly telling me stories of foolish things she has done, poor decisions she has made, or just bad situations she has ended up in. Thus, it makes me believe that she is living out this “self- fulfilling prophecy”
A self-fulfilling prophecy is any positive or negative supposition or prediction about circumstances or people that, once manifested, predisposes situations in a way that affect the expected event to occur and make the prediction happen.
To begin, Rudy faces a cultural conflict when he talks about the different types of languages that goes on at home. My evidence is the way their parents want them to speak. “My father only embraced the hawaiian way, while my mother, perhaps in reaction, subscribed to the haole way”