Football is not for the faint of heart in America.
Whether at the high school, collegiate, or professional level, the sport has transcended beyond a game and established itself as a religious following among the public.
In order to adapt the equally chaotic and romantic sentiment of football for the big screen, few directors were more equipped in 1999 than Oliver Stone.
The two-time Academy Award-winner for Best Director made his name off of capturing the gravity of the nation’s most topical issues: the humane impacts of the Vietnam War with Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, the murky truth behind the John F.
Kennedy assassination with JFK, and the origins of violent tendencies and its media exploitation with Natural Born Killers.
At the turn of the century, Stone brought his style of maximalist MTV-like editing, integration of various film reels, his thematic penchants as a provocateur, and
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