Hoop Dreams is an American film from the 1990's in Westchester, Illinois. It is a documentary about these two highschool boys, William Gates and Arthur Agee who are recruted to St. Joesph High school to play on the basketball team. We follow them through their highschool lives and watch them struggle to become professional basketball players.
The question i am asked to answer is: Where are they now? After doing lots of research i found that neither Gates nor Agee are playing basketball professionally. Their job paths and priorities might have changed, but their personalities have not. Gates is still that tall fit boy who is quiet, smart, and when you get to know him a truely outgoing man. He is now a pastor at Living Faith Community Church in Chicago. Gates married the woman he had a child with in the film, and now they have a son that plays at St. Joesph High school. And is doing his best at being a better father to his childern then his father was to him.
Agee is still that outgoing, loving, mischievious, and funny young man how had an infectious laugh. Agee now travels the nation being a part of a program called Hoop Dreams: Control Your Destiny Curriculum. Which helps youth focus more on academics making themselves more valuable. Agee is going to Tucson to shoot a film called Hoop Reality which is a follow up to Hoop Dreams. But this time Agee is going to mentor a kid from his old high school, but throughout the film is going to show youth that have big dreams of becoming professional basketball players that you still need a back up plan.
Even though William Gates and Arthur Agee didnt become professional basketball players, they are still touching the lives of many people, the majority of them being youth, and teaching them valuable life long lessons.
good writing, but needs something on race,education and economics.. canelake
ReplyDeleteThis is basically stolen from an article in Slam magazine from December 2010
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