Blog 9

I think Spike Lee's film Love and Basketball is very transformative because of the way he represents the characters.  Although love stories have to involve at least two people, and usually a male and female, the film is still usually focused on mainly the male and his story; whereas, Spike Lee did not only focus on Quincy (the main male lead).  The plot of the film was about Quincy's life but also about Monica's (the main female lead) life journey/story.  Along with that, typical sports films are mainly about a male and his journey through his sporting career, but Spike Lee made his film differently.  Yes, it was about Quincy's journey through basketball, and him wanting to achieve his dream of playing in the NBA; however, it was also about Monica's journey through basketball, and her dream of wanting to play in the WNBA, which is representing a girl having sporting dreams, and that was not typical in sporting films because the general population thought women did have sporting skills.  In a sense, Lee even represented Monica as being a better basketball player and having more skills than her boyfriend/husband, Quincy, and that was really transforming films, especially in the sporting world, because he showed that women do have sporting skills, too, and it is not just a "man's world".