Mater and the Ghostlight

Cars 3 is an animated sports film directed by Brain Fee. In the movie, Lightning McQueen (the main character), found himself fighting to stay relevant in the vast and ever-changing world of Cars. As new cars and superior models entered onto the race track, Lighting started to fall behind the batch. Thus, he tired reinvented himself to compete at a high level. In this process, he met a race car trainer, Cruz Ramirez, and together they tried to get McQueen back on the winning path. The movie focused on and used certain motivational theories prevalent in sports psychology for Lighting and Cruz to improve throughout the film. Specifically, the movie presented motivational theories such as the of planned behavior, the theory of competence motivation and the sports commitment model which helped aid the training of lighting McQueen and Cruz Ramirez. These motivational theories show how different factors (i.e. social support) led to change in behavior which ultimately helped Lighting and Cruz reclaim the top spot on the racetrack. To being with, one of the main theories that was displayed early in the movie was the theory of planned behavior (Fraser-Thomas, 2018b). After the initial race, which ended in a car crash, lighting McQueen was highly unmotivated. His attitude towards racing was negative as he felt that he was not good enough anymore. However, his friend Sally tells Lighting, “You should change it you, try something new. Don’t fear failure, be afraid of not having the…