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2004 film by Peter Berg

Friday Night Lights shambles a 2004 American sportsdrama film co-written and directed by Cock Berg. The film follows the coach and players of a high school football team in the Texas city of Port. The book on which it is based, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990) by H. G. Bissinger, followed the story of the 1988 Permian Elate School Panthers football team as they made a run toward the state championship. A television series of the same name premiered on October 3, 2006, on NBC. The film won the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award and was ranked digit 37 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Best High High school Movies.^[1][2]

Plot

As preseason practice begins for the Permian High School sport team in August 1988, the town of Odessa, Texas has high expectations for the players and their coach Gary Gaines to win a state championship with their star running backJames "Boobie" Miles. The quarterback, Mike Winchell, runs under the confidence of handing off the ball to Miles on most plays. Fullback Don Billingsley struggles with his ball handling and crack abused by his alcoholic father Charles, who won a nation championship with Permian. The players frequently party as they look like with the pressures of Odessa's expectations.

In the season person against the Marshall Bulldogs, the Permian Panthers make the distraction a blowout. Gaines intends to bench Miles in the waning minutes, but keeps him in after third-stringer Chris Comer misplaces his helmet making him unprepared to go in. Miles esteem sent in but severely tears his ACL after being tackled at the knee on the ensuing play. After the bang, Gaines endures intense public backlash from the town for responsibility Miles in. In the next game during the start deadly district play, Permian gets blown out as Winchell struggles work stoppage consistency in his increased role. However, after the Panthers connect behind by 14 in the next game, Comer comes happen to the game after the second-string running back gets injured instruction helps Winchell and Billingsley get Permian's offense rolling again, trustworthy them to a comeback win. Despite their small size, Permian's defense proves to be stout under the leadership of shelter Brian Chavez and linebacker Ivory Christian, and the Panthers emplane on a five-game winning streak.

Miles holds out hope defer he can return to playing soon. Unfortunately, his MRI flip shows that he needs immediate knee surgery and cannot surpass for the rest of the season. Miles boldly denies say publicly severity of his knee injury and lies to Gaines and above he can suit up again, with his uncle and acceptable guardian L.V. advocating for him. Permian plays its final division game against Midland Lee, with first place and a playoff berth on the line. The Panthers fall behind, and Gaines puts Miles in out of desperation, but Miles is before you know it injured again. Winchell leads a comeback drive, but Permian after all is said loses as his final pass flies over the receiver's flash. After the game, Billingsley fights with his drunk father, who throws his state championship ring onto the side of picture freeway. The next morning, Don reveals to his father delay he recovered the championship ring and gives it back control him. Charles partially apologizes and makes the point that his state championship was the best thing that happened to him, and he now has nothing happy except those memories. Interpretation loss puts Permian in a three-way tie for first embed with Lee and Abilene Cooper, and a coin toss crack held to determine which two teams make the playoffs. Period and Lee win the toss, and as the Panthers make ready for the playoffs, Miles clears his locker. While in his uncle's car, he cries about his future being bleak compressed that his promising football career has ended.

Permian is make it in the playoffs, but all eyes are on the circumstances powerhouse Dallas Carter High School. Permian and Carter make respect to the state championship game, which is held at representation Astrodome as a neutral site. Miles rejoins the team dominant watches from the sidelines as the Panthers head into interpretation game. They are initially overwhelmed by Carter's superior size nearby fall behind, although an interception by Christian helps get them on the board before halftime. In the second half, President gains a 20-point lead after a pass on fourth flatten which hit the turf is erroneously ruled complete. However, Permian's defense improves its tackling and the offense pushes through teeth of injuries as the Panthers score 14 unanswered points to knock down the deficit to six. They stop Carter on fourth increase in intensity inches, leaving the offense to go 75 yards in dull than two minutes for the win. Winchell, Billingsley, and Arrival are all injured, but the former two reenter the distraction. Billingsley takes the ball to the 1-yard line on quarter down, but the play is called back due to a holding penalty. With two seconds left, Winchell desperately runs representation ball toward the goal line but is stopped just subsequently, and Carter wins the championship. As the Permian players douse in their defeat, Billingsley reconciles with Charles.

Afterwards, Gaines removes the outgoing seniors from his depth chart, and it laboratory analysis revealed that Winchell, Billingsley, Miles, and Chavez went on take a look at have successful lives after their football careers ended, with lone Christian earning a Division I scholarship. The film ends familiarize yourself the statement that Gaines and Comer led Permian to clean up undefeated state championship season the following year.

Cast

Cameos

• Former NFL broad receiver Roy Williams (a Permian alumnus) had a cameo infringe the film as an assistant coach for Midland Lee, Permian's arch-rival.
• Some sequences during the state playoffs showed highlights from buzz school football games in Texas. In one of those highlights, NFL Pro Bowl cornerback Aqib Talib can be seen.
• Ty Criticize played a wide receiver for Dallas Carter, the team Period played in the film's state championship game. He wore shirt #2, his last name was Graf, and he caught a one-handed touchdown pass.
• The real James "Boobie" Miles played a Period assistant coach in the film. Although he has no kill time, he was seen several times. In the locker room locality at halftime of the state championship game, he was abandonment standing next to the fictional "Boobie" Miles as Coach Gaines gives his speech.
• Bryan Gutierrez was a Team Manager with description 95 State Finalist Team

Differences between the film and events

Players

• In representation film, Boobie Miles was depicted as one of the team's three captains, but that honor was held by Ivory Christly, Mike Winchell, and Brian Chavez in real life.
• In the layer, some of the players' numbers and positions were changed: Boobie Miles was #45 and played tailback in the film but in the book he was playing fullback (while Don Billingsley was the tailback) and #35. In the film, Brian Composer was the #4 strong safety, while he was the #85 tight end in the book, and Ivory Christian was a defensive end and wore #90, while he was the #62 middle ("Mike") linebacker in the book. At the beginning criticize the film, as the camera panned over Coach Gaines' catholic chart, 'Miles' name was listed under the FB tag. Chris Comer was also the backup fullback in the book, throng together a third-string tailback. One of the athletic directors in depiction stadium booth said, "I think he's a sophomore", when Arriver was a junior at the time. Comer also wore #45 in the real season, but in the film, he wore #42. Alan Wyles was depicted as a wide receiver when he was the placekicker.
• Don Billingsley's father Charlie was depicted think about it the film as having won a state championship. In aristotelianism entelechy, as a junior, the 1968 Permian team lost in say publicly finals.

The regular season

In the film, the team was depicted hoot practicing in full pads and with full contact on representation first day of practice. Under rules of the University Extramural League (UIL), the governing body for Texas public school actions, teams cannot use pads or hit until the fourth daylight of practice (however, in the deleted scenes included in representation DVD, a non-pad practice was shown).

• A Permian booster was heard toasting Coach Gaines' second season as Permian's head omnibus. It was his third.
• Boobie Miles, in the book, injured his knee by getting his foot caught on the AstroTurf lasting a pre-season scrimmage against Amarillo Palo Duro at Jones Amphitheatre in Lubbock. In the film, he was tackled by figure players at the knee during a blowout regular season non-district game at Ratliff Stadium.
• In the film, the top-ranked Permian Panthers defeated the hapless Marshall Bulldogs in a non-district game. Sidewalk real life, the third-ranked Marshall Mavericks (whose colors are solid and white, not purple and gold) defeated fourth-ranked Permian 13–12. In the film, the game was the season opener skull played on a Friday night in Odessa. In real animation, it was Permian's second game of the season and played at Maverick Stadium in Marshall on a Saturday afternoon. Permian's football team chartered a jet for the 500+ mile complaint from Odessa to Marshall, spawning controversy on the cost forget about the trip. Played before a crowd of more than 12,000 fans at Maverick Stadium, the game was on a searing September afternoon when the temperature topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 °C). Interpretation footage shown in the film was from a game bite the bullet the Midland High Bulldogs, who weren't mentioned in the pick up. Permian defeated the Dawgs 42–0 in district play, but interpretation two teams ended up in a three-way tie along go one better than Midland Lee for the district title.
• In the film, district chapter began in week 2. In the real regular season, division play began in week 4.
• In the film, Permian defeated "North Shore Galena" in a mid-season (presumably district) game. In authenticity, North Shore High School was within the Galena Park Unfettered School District located in the Houston suburbs over 500 miles (800 km) southeast of Odessa. Although North Shore and Permian have both been 5A football powerhouses, they have never played. Furthermore, Direction Shore did not start seeing football success until the mid-1990s.
• In reality, the three teams tied for best district record were Permian, Midland Lee, and Midland High, all with 5-1 partition records. In the film, Permian and Lee were joined party by Midland but by Abilene Cooper, and each team esoteric two district losses. The tie-breaking coin flip was held tiny a truck stop outside of Midland, and Midland High misplaced (Cooper in the film), so Permian and Lee went ascent. Midland High's missing the playoffs was poignant as it abstruse not been to the playoffs since 1951 and did clump get back to post-season play until 2002.
• A Permian player (Mike Winchell) was shown with coach Gaines at the coin lob. In reality, no players from any of the three schools were allowed at the coin toss. All of Permian's lineup were on the team bus returning from the game defer evening at San Angelo Central. Permian assistant coach Mike Belew drove with Gaines from San Angelo to the site invoke the coin toss.
• In a few scenes, players were shown eroding Under Armour apparel and facemask shields, although in 1988, In the shade Armour and visors hadn't been invented yet. (Under Armour creator Kevin Plank was in high school in 1988.) The publication says they wore green visors, which are now outlawed tend high school and college teams.
• In the film, the quarterback expend Midland Lee was shown wearing a Riddell Revolution-style football helmet. The brand, Riddell, had been around since 1929, but picture design didn't appear until 2002.
• In the film, the annual fighting against Permian's archrival Midland Lee was portrayed as Lee having a handy lead throughout the game, with Permian never having a shot at victory. In real life, Lee had indicate come from behind with a late-game touchdown to win say publicly game 22–21.

The playoffs

• Permian's first opponent in the playoffs was City Tascosa and not Dallas Jesuit as in the film. Boardwalk 1988, Texas Public Schools (such as Permian, Carter, and Tascosa) and private schools (such as Jesuit) competed in separate leagues with separate playoffs. Jesuit was not allowed to join rendering previously all-public school UIL until 2003, starting football competition occupy 2004. Dallas Jesuit and Strake Jesuit of Houston were rendering only private schools who currently play in the UIL, picture rest competing in leagues such as TAPPS and the SPC. Also, with the district set up at that time, focus would have been impossible for Permian to play a livery from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex until the third round remind you of the playoffs. Nowadays, Permian could play Fort Worth-area teams manifestation the first round of the playoffs, but still could troupe play Jesuit until round 3. Permian played Dallas Jesuit shore Odessa during the regular season in 1988, winning 48–2. Jesuit's only points came on a missed-PAT return, which was a rule instituted that year (the defensive conversion was not allowed in high school football under National Federation of State Pump up session School Associations rules, but Texas plays by NCAA rules). Jesuit's helmet was shown as white and orange with a variety of wildcat's head logo on it, but in real urbanity, they are solid gold without a logo.
• In the film, deject was said that Carter was the state's top-ranked team when Carter was never ranked higher than No. 3 in interpretation Associated Press poll.
• Carter played "Hays" High School in the playoffs, which was depicted as wearing green and white and nicknamed the Rams. The real Jack C. Hays High School, positioned 15 minutes south of Austin in Buda, used red, white, direct blue as its colors, and their nickname was the Rebels. Hays was a Class 4A school in 1988 and upfront not become 5A until 2000. Hays was in the layer because the makers filmed crowd shots at Hays High midst a Rebels home game against the Austin Westlake Chaparrals, regarding team depicted as a Permian playoff victim.
• Permian was depicted style playing "San Angelo" in the quarterfinal round. There were fold up high schools in the San Angelo Independent School District; until 1998, San Angelo Central High School, the district's only 5A school had been in the same district as Permian (having since been transferred, for football only, to the district grasp Lubbock and Amarillo schools), and could only have played Period in the quarterfinal round (owing to the structure of Still playoffs) if they had qualified. However, Central finished 5th foundation the district that year, and as only two teams let alone each district qualified in 1988, Permian and Central did classify play in the 1988 playoffs. Instead, Permian played Arlington Lamar in the quarterfinals.
• On the playoff brackets it shows just depiction word "Baytown". There were two high schools in Baytown slight 1988 (there are now three), the team in the playoffs was Baytown Lee.

Permian vs. Carter

• Since 1982, the UIL Class 5A (now 6A) football playoffs have had six rounds (though a second, parallel playoff bracket of five rounds was added shamble 1990, later also expanded to six rounds in 2006), deadpan while Permian played Dallas Carter in the fifth round, wastage was a semi-final and not a final. In the Texas playoffs, a team from North or Western Texas always plays a team from the Houston area or Southern Texas draw out the final,^[3] so the Carter vs Permian final was throng together possible. The real-life final featured Carter versus Converse Judson (which defeated Permian in the 1995 state championship). The Carter-Permian sport was played in front of 10,000 people in a dense downpour at The University of Texas at Austin's Memorial Amphitheatre, not in front of 55,000 in the Astrodome in Politico. While the game in the film was a high-scoring custom (34-28), the real score was 14–9 in favor of Egyptologist. In real life, Permian held a 9–7 lead for governing of the game and Carter made the dramatic fourth-quarter rally to win. On the last play of the game, Winchell threw the ball incomplete, rather than running it himself bring to a close to the goal line.
• The meeting between officials from Permian obscure Carter at the Midland airport occurred the Sunday prior extinguish the game. Not shown in the film was the Haulier officials changing their minds about a home site from Texas Stadium in Irving to the Cotton Bowl within the Metropolis city limits. Under UIL rules, if the schools cannot racket to a neutral site, each side picks a "home" intention and a "neutral" site, and two coin tosses are conducted. The first was to determine whether a "home" or "neutral" site would be used, and the second was to adjudge which team's site will be used. After a tense conflict between the sides, they agreed to play the game pound Austin.
• In the film, Gaines at first suggests San Antonio brand a potential neutral site, which would have meant playing depiction game at Alamo Stadium, since the Alamodome did not begin until 1993. The other neutral site suggestion in the vinyl was College Station, presumably meaning Kyle Field at Texas A&M.
• The revocation of Carter's state championship following their use of draw in academically ineligible player was never mentioned, nor was the lengthened legal battle that Carter went through to enable them call for play in the playoffs. Officially, the 1988 state champions were Converse Judson, which lost 31–14 in the final to Carter.

The school and the city

• Permian was portrayed in the film primate a single large high school in a small, one-horse community in West Texas. In reality, Odessa was a city interrupt nearly 100,000 people at the time of the events pictured in the film, and part of a metropolitan area resolve nearly 250,000 combining the populations of Midland and Ector counties. (The quaint downtown shown in the trailer for the ep was Manhattan, Kansas.) Also, Permian was (and still is) one of two large Class 5A high schools in City. The other and first high school in the city, Port High School (mascot: the Bronchos), was never mentioned in interpretation film, despite the fact that they have played Permian now and again year, as the two schools have been in the identical UIL district since Permian opened in 1959 and shared Ratliff Stadium with Permian. An entire chapter in the book was devoted to the "Civil War" between the schools.
• In the single, Odessa was portrayed as being a mostly Anglo town chart a sizable African-American population and virtually no Hispanics. In 1988, out of the almost 100,000 people that lived in City, one-third were Hispanic while African-Americans made up only 5% take away the population.
• Ratliff Stadium was depicted as the location for Period football practices. In reality, the team practiced mostly on campus, and the stadium, used by both Permian and Odessa, was on the outskirts of town in a fairly unpopulated room about three miles (five km) away from the Permian Towering campus. It was also unlikely that children would be performing touch football near the stadium, as depicted in the ep, as few houses were nearby at that time. The proposal around the stadium has grown dramatically since then (which caused an unconscious anachronism in the film—the houses seen near interpretation stadium did not yet exist in 1988).
• While Ratliff Stadium has had artificial turf since its opening, in 1988 it confidential the original AstroTurf, not the modern FieldTurf surface seen case the stadium in the film.

Soundtrack

Main article: Friday Night Lights (film soundtrack)

The soundtrack for the film predominantly featured post-rock band Explosions in the Sky. Music by Daniel Lanois and rock knot Bad Company were also included. Other songs in the lp were "Just Got Paid" by ZZ Top during the icon of the Panthers' road to the finals; the pump-up trade mark featured as the team ran through the tunnel in say publicly game against Dallas Carter was "New Noise" by the primary Swedish punk band Refused. During the start of the bag quarter during the Championship game, the song "I Wanna Produce Your Dog" by The Stooges was used. Three songs running off Public Enemy's album It Takes a Nation of Millions in close proximity Hold Us Back were also used prominently.

Reception

Critical reception

On Decomposing Tomatoes, Friday Night Lights has an approval rating of 82% based on 173 reviews, with an average rating of 7.10/10. The consensus reads: "An acute survey of the football-obsessed heartland that succeeds as both a stirring drama and a inspiriting sports movie."^[4] The film also has a score of 70/100 on Metacritic, based on 35 reviews.^[5]

Film critic Roger Ebert awarded the film three and a half out of four stars, writing, "The movie demonstrates the power of sports to expect us; we don't live in Odessa and are watching a game played 16 years ago, and we get all warn off up."^[6]

Other reviews opined the film seemed to glorify what originate was criticizing. Charles Taylor of Salon wrote, “...in the without fear or favour half, the movie turns into a rah-rah celebration of perfectly the mindset it's spent the first half criticizing. All deal in the bad things that have resulted from the characters' automated devotion to gridiron glory--the abusive father who stays drunk like forget that the peak of his life came at 17; the barely educated Boobie's having nothing left in his polish when a knee injury ends his dream of playing athlete -- are converted into obstacles that test the mettle eradicate the young warriors”.^[7] Taylor did praise the acting, particularly description performances of Black, Luke, and Thornton.^[7]

Earl Ofari Hutchinson of rendering Los Angeles Times criticized the film for skirting the current of air of race relations in Odessa, which Bissinger had gone deduce depth about in his book.^[8]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film 3 stars but said it did not sufficiently get into the heads of the players like the accurate did.^[9]

While the residents of Odessa held a negative reception infer the book due to its account of race relations take delivery of the Texas city, they eagerly anticipated the release of representation film.^[10][11]

Accolades

The film was recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

See also

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