"We Are... Marshall!"

[Caleb89]

Hola everyone! I'm from WV, USA, and I went to see the new movie, "We Are Marshall" last night... and it was amazing. For those of you who haven't heard about the movie, it tells the true story of the 1970 plane crash that killed all 75 passengers on board... including most of the Marshall University Football team and most of its coaches and a few long-time fans of the football team... and it tells of how Marshall, along with the entire town of Hunington, WV, keep the football program alive and went on to win the first home game of the next season (1971)... Obviously, the first "lesson" to be learned from the movie is about the endurance of the human spirit. However, there's more to be learned from the movie... My favorite scene is when the new football coach of Marshall University and the assistant coach travel to Morgantown, WV, to West Virginia University (WVU), to see if the head coach will explain some of WVU's (a rival of Marshall's) key plays! Well, the coach gives them full-access to ALL of their plays!!! The Marshall coaches are sitting in the room where all the movie reels of WVU's plays and playbooks are, and they are watching a reel on a play when two WVU football players walk in holding their helmets, looking for the WVU coach. when they turn around, the back of their helmets have a green cross on the back and right beside it, in green letters, "MU" (Marshall University; green is the school color of Marshall)!!! ... Now, for those of you who may not know it, there is a HUGE rivalry between WVU and MU!!!! I mean, it can get pretty ugly in WV when the discussion at hand is about the two teams!!! ... Jesus Christ taught us to "love our enemies as we love ourselves." And I think as a society, we sometimes forget that there is a difference between "not hating someone" and "loving someone." To love someone is to have compassion for them; to be kind to them; to care what happens to them; to want the best for them; to help them. And in this respect, if we "love our enemies," then in reality, we have no enemies. The term enemy becomes nonexistent!!!... It's a GREAT movie!!!! I reccomend that EVERYONE watch it!!!!

 

[Adammi]

Hola everyone! I'm from WV, USA, and I went to see the new movie, "We Are Marshall" last night... and it was amazing. For those of you who haven't heard about the movie, it tells the true story of the 1970 plane crash that killed all 75 passengers on board... including most of the Marshall University Football team and most of its coaches and a few long-time fans of the football team... and it tells of how Marshall, along with the entire town of Hunington, WV, keep the football program alive and went on to win the first home game of the next season (1971)... Obviously, the first "lesson" to be learned from the movie is about the endurance of the human spirit. However, there's more to be learned from the movie... My favorite scene is when the new football coach of Marshall University and the assistant coach travel to Morgantown, WV, to West Virginia University (WVU), to see if the head coach will explain some of WVU's (a rival of Marshall's) key plays! Well, the coach gives them full-access to ALL of their plays!!! The Marshall coaches are sitting in the room where all the movie reels of WVU's plays and playbooks are, and they are watching a reel on a play when two WVU football players walk in holding their helmets, looking for the WVU coach. when they turn around, the back of their helmets have a green cross on the back and right beside it, in green letters, "MU" (Marshall University; green is the school color of Marshall)!!! ... Now, for those of you who may not know it, there is a HUGE rivalry between WVU and MU!!!! I mean, it can get pretty ugly in WV when the discussion at hand is about the two teams!!! ... Jesus Christ taught us to "love our enemies as we love ourselves." And I think as a society, we sometimes forget that there is a difference between "not hating someone" and "loving someone." To love someone is to have compassion for them; to be kind to them; to care what happens to them; to want the best for them; to help them. And in this respect, if we "love our enemies," then in reality, we have no enemies. The term enemy becomes nonexistent!!!... It's a GREAT movie!!!! I reccomend that EVERYONE watch it!!!!

When I first came to this thread I was thinking that it may be best served in a different forum, but I enjoyed how you brought it around to a spiritual point.
I too, being from WV also, saw the movie this evening. I didn't think that it was the greatest, but it was a good movie (I would have thought that it was better if I was a football fan).
There are a lot of spiritual truths to learn from everything. "Secular movies" can be just as true and spiritual as are "Christian movies", the same applies to music, books, etc.

Great post.