...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Facing the Giants
- 118 statements
- 22 feature instances
- 9 referencing feature instances
| Facing the Giants | type |
TVTItem | |
| Facing the Giants | label |
Facing the Giants | |
| Facing the Giants | page |
facingthegiants | |
| Facing the Giants | comment |
The Moral Substitute for the clichéd sports-movie storyline we all know by heart. It follows the life of down-and-out football coach Grant Taylor as he manages to coach his tiny, apathetic high school football team to an incredible season.Made by Sherwood Pictures, the studio that would later make Fireproof and Courageous. | |
| Facing the Giants | fetched |
2018-09-29T09:49:55Z | |
| Facing the Giants | parsed |
2020-06-25T17:20:18Z | |
| Facing the Giants | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Facing the Giants / int_1b3b48f3 | type |
David Versus Goliath | |
| Facing the Giants / int_1b3b48f3 | comment |
David vs. Goliath: The title says it all. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_1b3b48f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_1b3b48f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_1b3b48f3 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_266a9dd6 | type |
Heel–Faith Turn | |
| Facing the Giants / int_266a9dd6 | comment |
Heel–Faith Turn: A textbook literal example. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_266a9dd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_266a9dd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_266a9dd6 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_323e47e2 | type |
Chain of Corrections | |
| Facing the Giants / int_323e47e2 | comment |
Chain of Corrections: The Charles Schulz/Charles Lindbergh/Limburger cheese banter before the third-act turnaround. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_323e47e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_323e47e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_323e47e2 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_3fca462c | type |
Deus ex Machina | |
| Facing the Giants / int_3fca462c | comment |
Deus ex Machina: Justified, for...obvious reasons. The one match they lost after turning to the Lord and the winning team gets DQ'd due to having two 19-year-olds in the team. Another example is during the final game when David is about to kick a field goal that if he misses, will cost the team the game, he prays "Dear God…help me make this kick…" And he does. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_3fca462c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_3fca462c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_3fca462c | |
| Facing the Giants / int_4eaa9b84 | type |
Author Tract | |
| Facing the Giants / int_4eaa9b84 | comment |
Author Tract: It's not just a Christian movie but produced and financed by a Baptist church, so this is pretty much inevitable. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_4eaa9b84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_4eaa9b84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_4eaa9b84 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Facing the Giants / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The kicker who makes the game-winning field-goal is named David Childers. His best friend (and holder) is named Jonathan Weston. Take a wild guess as to where the idea for the names came from. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Win or lose...we give God the glory." | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_7464705c | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: The coach of the final team fought is an arrogant Fat Bastard who brags about their previous victories and compares the Eagles to dogs nipping at their heels. What a sportsman. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7c0bfb83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7c0bfb83 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_7c0bfb83 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Grant does this to the team when they screw up what should have been an easy win, screaming at them that the reason that they keep losing is because two of them got detention for playing a prank on another student, and the rest aren't being serious about practice. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_7d89315b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_7d89315b | |
| Facing the Giants / int_86bbf6b5 | type |
Newscaster Cameo | |
| Facing the Giants / int_86bbf6b5 | comment |
Newscaster Cameo: Then-WALBnote The NBC station in Sherwood Baptist Church's home base of Albany, GA sports anchor Kevin Mcdermondnote later at Mobile, Alabama NBC station WPMI, now working for Under Armour briefly appears to plug a story on the Eagles advancing to the state championship game. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_86bbf6b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_86bbf6b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_86bbf6b5 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_9accc096 | type |
YouBetterSitDown | |
| Facing the Giants / int_9accc096 | comment |
You Better Sit Down: Coach Grant Taylor gets a call informing him that his team will be allowed into the playoffs after all because the team they lost to in the last game cheated. You only hear Grant's end of the conversation, but he repeats the callers question of "Am I sitting down?" with obvious confusion. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_9accc096 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_9accc096 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_9accc096 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a56c59ac | type |
Historical Character Confusion | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a56c59ac | comment |
Historical Character Confusion: A Who's on First?-esque conversation involves, among other things, the speaker confusing Charles Schultz with the pilot Charles Lindbergh (then him with the Hindenburg). He's clearly joking, though, to mess with The Comically Serious coach trying to correct him. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a56c59ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a56c59ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_a56c59ac | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a9dc0c29 | type |
The Moral Substitute | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a9dc0c29 | comment |
The Moral Substitute: Considering that this movie was made by a church, this should not be a surprise. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a9dc0c29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_a9dc0c29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_a9dc0c29 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_b866763b | type |
Mondegreen | |
| Facing the Giants / int_b866763b | comment |
Mondegreen: The DVD subtitles interpret "Kojak" as "Cool Jack". | |
| Facing the Giants / int_b866763b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_b866763b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_b866763b | |
| Facing the Giants / int_d0b60f23 | type |
GoshDangItToHeck | |
| Facing the Giants / int_d0b60f23 | comment |
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: And how! | |
| Facing the Giants / int_d0b60f23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_d0b60f23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_d0b60f23 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_dec54a8c | type |
Avoid the Dreaded G Rating | |
| Facing the Giants / int_dec54a8c | comment |
Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Inverted when the MPAA assigned it a PG rating due to "football violence" and discussion of infertility. Curiously, it was not appealed; with Focus on the Family reviewer Bob Waliszewski suggesting that this may have actually helped the film's success. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_dec54a8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_dec54a8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_dec54a8c | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e4d98039 | type |
Down to the Last Play | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e4d98039 | comment |
Down to the Last Play | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e4d98039 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e4d98039 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_e4d98039 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e50987a9 | type |
Reconstruction | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e50987a9 | comment |
Reconstruction: Of sorts, for the super-clichéd "Little Team Of Failures Becomes Motivated Team Of Champions" storyline for sports films in general, and football films in particular. The goods are delivered—but here, the motivation come from newfound faith, in Kierkegaard-esque fashion. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e50987a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_e50987a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_e50987a9 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f4f3252e | type |
Law of Inverse Fertility | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f4f3252e | comment |
Law of Inverse Fertility: Grant and his wife have constantly tried to get a child, to no avail. But once Grant turns to the lord... | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f4f3252e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f4f3252e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_f4f3252e | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f8fc95d3 | type |
Put Me In, Coach! | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f8fc95d3 | comment |
Put Me In, Coach!: During the film; David Childers is generally used in spot duty kicking short field goals. Then the regular kicker gets hurt in the championship game; forcing Shiloh to invoke this trope. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f8fc95d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f8fc95d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_f8fc95d3 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f935efbf | type |
Unnecessary Roughness | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f935efbf | comment |
Unnecessary Roughness: During the championship game; the Giants commit a very blatant roughing the kicker penalty that results in Shiloh's regular kicker forced to miss the rest of the game with an injury; resulting in David Childers being used as kicker the rest of the way. | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f935efbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_f935efbf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_f935efbf | |
| Facing the Giants / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Facing the Giants / int_name | comment |
||
| Facing the Giants / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Facing the Giants | hasFeature |
Facing the Giants / int_name | |
| Facing the Giants / int_name | itemName |
Facing the Giants |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.