The Waterboy
Adam Sandler's "The Waterboy" is a comedy about a water boy fora college football team, who turned into a college football star. The main character, Bobby Boucher, is a slow-witted man in his mid-late 20's. Hestill lives with his overprotective mother in a Louisiana Bayou, so hissocial skills are very lacking. Another character is Henry Winkler, whostarred in Happy Days. He plays another football coach and one of Bouchier's only friends. The movie starts out with Boucher getting fired from his job asthe waterboy of the football team. He tries to get the job of water boy forhis favorite wrestler, Captain Insano, but after failing this and many otherattempts at finding a job, he lands one with a smaller college football team.While this team is the laughing stock of the community, Boucher is madefun of at this school just as much as the other. At the new school, themain perpetrator is the quarterback, who also tries to get everyoneelse to join in. One day at practice, Boucher was pushed too far. During themiddle of a play at practice, the quarterback started making fun of Bobby.With all the anger that had built up, Boucher rushed in and viciously tackledhim. After seeing this, the coach was
The only problem was that Bobby'smother wanted to protect him from college and everything in the realworld because she thought that everyone was the devil. He used all his built up anger, and whenit was his turn to tackle someone, he diverted this energy and became one ofthe most aggressive players the area had ever seen. At the beginning of the movie when the world was seen through Bobby it always showed him looking up at everybody. He gains nationwideattention and becomes one of the best players in college football. She wouldn't "let herBobby play foosball". Whenever they showed the camera through the eyes of someone who was talking to Bobby always showed them looking down at him as if he were in some way inferior to everyone. She also didn't like Bobby's girlfriend because she always had troubles with the law and Bobby's mother feared that she would rub off on him. Boucher'steam ends up playing his former team for the national championship. This movie also uses a unique zoom in angle on the characters when they're experiencing rage. Thanksto the heroics of Boucher his team defeats the larger school, which utilizesthe David and Goliath approach of the little guy defeating the giant. completely amazed, and offered Bobby ascholarship. She even decided to fill in for his waterboy duties on the sideline while while he played on the field. But this wasn't just some money to play ball, this was thebeginning of a whole new world. After Bobby caught this glimpse of the real world he was curious and wanted to see more.
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