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Sports Movies

I'm not sure if anyone is still active here, or if the comm is checked for activity by anyone, but I just wanted to give my two cents.

I'm a huge fanfiction fan, and my favorites are always those that deal with close male friendship, be it between family or otherwise. I have always found that sports movies hit the spot in many ways, so here are a few I think are great:

Miracle - the bond between the team helped them bring down the greatest hockey team in the world. I especially focus on Jack O'Callahan and Mike Eruzione (with Jack usually being the hurt one - for some reason I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort).

Friday Night Lights (movie) - this is incredible. the boys actually say they love each other. My main focus is the connection between Don Billingsly and Mike Schillinger.

Friday Night Lights (tv) - there is more romance in the series to detract from the focus on the team, but the team is so in sync. Jason Street and Tim Riggins really define intimate friendship for me; their willing to hold one another and forgive no matter what. It's incredible.

So check these out, and if there are any people can recommend, please do.
angie

Friendship Honesty

This is a post I made in my personal LJ today. Thought I'd share it with ya'll, since it is friendship-related.

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I think that's another HUGE problem male friends have. They're not honest with each other. Not when it comes to their emotions, that is.
angie

Some Romantic Friendship Books

I kinda started making a list of male romantic friendship books, and here's what I've found so far:


Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher (paperback)

Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America by Axel Nissen (paperback!)

American Sympathy: Men, Friendship and Literature in the New Nation by Caleb Crain

Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography by John Ibson


The first two are cheaper in paperback, thus the parentheticals. : )


Check these out, guys. They look great. I hope to get my hands on all of them eventually.
angie

Real Brotherhood

Today, on the Oprah show, the Ebersol family was interviewed about the plane crash they were involved in, in 2004. They lost the youngest of their family -- Teddy -- who was 14 at the time. One of the other sons -- Charlie -- and his father, who is the president of NBC sports or something, were also in the plane and survived. It was all very tragic and painful for them and also inspiring to viewers because of the way they've handled it. But what struck me in particular were the two boys -- Willie and Charlie. (They also have 2 older half-siblings, a sister and brother.)

They were so -- loving. And tender. And emotional in a way you don't see everyday coming from young men. There was none of that macho, egotistic bullshit that you get from a lot of guys in their twenties. Charlie, the one involved in the crash, cried several times, and his brother Willie held his hand. Once, Willie even pulled Charlie over and just held him for a moment, as Charlie sort of cried. Later on, Charlie told of an important moment that happened back when the crash had just occured. He had broken his back in 2 places and sustained other injuries and Willie -- who had been in another state at the time of the crash -- flew in. He walked into his brother's hospital room and got into bed with him and told him this comforting thing about Teddy -- their lost little brother -- having gone full arch, having lived his whole life to its fullest. Now, whenever Charlie gets on a plane, he calls his family before he boards because, understandably, he's got a lot of fear when it comes to flying. And no matter what, Willie always asks him the same question before Charlie boards: "Are you happy?"

And if Charlies says yes, they know he's okay to fly. If he's happy, if he feels that he could be satisfied with the life he's lived so far if he came to the end of it, then he can take that risk.


They were just -- amazing to watch, I think. Stuff like this -- although it doesn't happen much -- restores a little bit of hope in me for the men of modern day society. At least until something else tears it down.

; )