

42 also embodies the extreme rightist perspective in the sense that the film …show more content… In A League of their Own, we can see that even though having an environmental view is not what the Rockford Peaches want, but it is what they must conform to in order to play on the team. Padre was another strong leader for the young boys he taught them important lessons and provided them with the faith and inspiration to achieve greatness. Although at first Cesar had no interest in coaching the young boys, he was able to gain motivation and lead them on the path to success. The Rockford Peaches were guided by Dugan, a raging alcoholic, which is very different from Cesar and Padre in The Perfect Game. The Perfect Game introduces another important aspect of hierarchy which is social institutions guided by strong leaders. This is primarily exhibited when the boys go to America and face racial slight, but also at home in Mexico when interacting with the Mexico City little league team.


The young Mexican boys in The Perfect Game experience the same emphasis on the difference between individuals, purely because of race. The women in A League of their Own are excluded from an entire sport until the men have to report to service communicating that women are different and not as good as men so they can only play in the male absence. The hierarchal perspective emphasizes the differences among people and this is done so in all three movies by ostracizing the minority groups: women, Mexicans, and African Americans. The Perfect Game is about a group of young boys from Monterrey, Mexico who aspire to be on a baseball team and when given …show more content… All three of the movies provide a hierarchal perspective when it comes to their ideology. A League of their Own is a film about the solution to keep baseball alive during WWII and that is to start a women’s baseball league. A League of their Own, The Perfect Game, and 42 all contain an explicit sense of ideology with a thematic orientation towards teaching people about treatment of minorities in baseball culture. A film’s purpose is often reflected through the ideology it possesses and in this case, the ideology expresses the treatment of minorities in baseball culture. Show More Giannetti defines ideology as, “a body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture” (448).
