I need help with my home work from movie "father of the bride1"please write longer?

Question

I need help for my speech of movie Father of the bride 1?
explain the significance of the basketball hoop in the movie,"Father of the bride 1." my speech should include a description of why the hoop was important,and disscussion of each of three times the hoop was shown in the movie. explain the situation, who was there,and what it represented for each of three times?

Answer 1

the basket ball hoop is lik a big wedding ring that you shoot basket balls through. There is the scene in the early part of the movie when he is talking about how his life has going so well and she is a little girl and he is teaching her to shoot baskets and he is the only man in her life. There is the scene when she arrives and is trying to tell him that she has found a new man, and that they are going to get married and he has trouble hitting the basket. And there is the scene when she is breaking up with her fiancee and he is trying to teach her the error of her ways and how if this is the man for her then she should be with him because her father is not perfect and much of what she was told is true. There is a fourth scene where he talks to his sone about shooting hoops as well, but that is not the one you are thinking about. The point is that he and she have been training for this moment all her life and here it is the moment when she must stop practicing and start playing the game of life.

Answer 2

The hoop was a sacred special place between father and daughter. Each time the hoop was shown it marked or represented a significant change in the daughter's life... Grade school, high school, marriage. The hoop was important because it was where the father or daughter went to clear their minds and meditate about important life altering changes that were taking place in their lives.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

It seemed to be the special meeting place of Father and Daughter, where they had conversations. It might have represented her childhood that she would leave behind when she left as a married woman (?). As long as they could play basketball, they were in her childhood, and she was not yet a woman, and more a child. It also showed that she was not too feminine, if she would come out and play with a basketball. I don't know if this was good or not, but it seemed to reassure the Father (Steve Martin.) It also may have had something to do with the coziness of their home, that it was a way of the family sharing the yard. Did it mean that she was "sensible?" That she was "tomboyish"? Was that good? That she was "all-American"?
The memory I have of the movie is that out at the basketball hoop they worked out their private conversations, between Father and Daughter. (This scene is in the original FATHER OF THE BRIDE, when Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor are in the kitchen together).
There is a signifigant "basketball" symbol, the lacy basketball shoes (made in her father's factory) that she gets married in. Hard to say if basketball represents---?
American values
Good health & fitness
Steve Martin's company's interests
Competition
Sensible living
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If you need more material, it might be worthwhile comparing this film with the original FATHER OF THE BRIDE(1950). Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor were great friends IRL, because of making this movie together. But the type of character Taylor played in the film was so super-beautiful and super-feminine (in line with some 1950's ideals of upper middle class women) that hers and her father's worlds hardly crossed at all----they only had one long scene together, and that was by accident, in the kitchen. Most of the film Spencer Tracy's character was completely ignorant of what was going on, or any of the events in his daughter's life---he was almost forgotten by the whole family. In contrast to Steve Martin's idea of his daughter (either small child or basketball playing girl), Spencer Tracy had known for years that Liz Taylor's character had so many boyfriends he couldn't keep track of them. He also had two sons, so perhaps his daughter had more leeway to be completely feminine.

Answer 4

The first time it was shown was when the father and daughter were playing after she told him that she was getting married...He tries to persuade her to not get married and stay home with him...this is a father daughter bond...kinda of a like a routine they have together...then next time its when he is remembering when she is little and he was teaching her how to play...it shows his love for her and the happy times he had with her...also the last time is when they are playing on her wedding day in the snow...she is now all grown up and is getting married if u have seen the second one it shows when she has had a baby and her mom too...in the end she gives her new baby sister a basketball... kind of like she is passing on the great times with her dad to her little sister...anyhow good luck with the paper

Answer 5

dood, that movie was sooo long ago, i think you're better off watching it on your own and doing your own homework