Comparing Talladega Nights And Hardball

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The two movies I choose are Talladega Nights and Hardball. Hardball is an inspiring story in which a man who is on a bad path in lights loses all his money, and is forced to coach a baseball team of underprivileged kids and ends up caring for them. He leads the tea to a championship, and they lose a player to a gunshot, but they join together and win! Talladega Nights is the story of Ricky Bobby, a race car driver who was mistreated and abandoned by his father. He thought that he had to win to get love, then he lost everything, found love anyway, and won the biggest race. A story mixing the both of them together is very interesting, the story goes like this.

Ricky Bobby was at the prime of his life, things were great, and then he lost one race and everything went wrong. His wife left him, he lost his job, and he lost all his money. He started gambling to make up for the emptiness in his life. Ricky dug himself into a very deep hole, he lost all of his money. Ricky knew that he needed money, and was going to be in a load of trouble if he did not get it. so he went to an old friend and begged him for money. His friend said that the only way Ricky would get any money was to coach a baseball team of kids who did not have much to offer.
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The team does not have many opportunities in their lives and they do not know much about baseball. Ricky decides that he will help the team out, he starts to teach them the basics of baseball so that they will understand the entire game better. Ricky makes the boys stay late for one practice, even though they say that it is not safe to stay out after dark, and one of the boys is attacked, and they steal all his toy cars. Then Ricky realizes that he will have to help these boys with life as well as

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