#5 Michael Romett- Personal Legend of Bagger Vance

This is a golf movie with Will Smith and Matt Damon. Damon is a golfer who has lost his identity after coming back from war. He is asked to play in a match against two of the best golfers in the world, adding him as a local member, to create interest by the community to come and watch and have a local hero to cheer for. Will Smith approaches him while he is practice and volunteers to be his caddy. The match starts and Junuh played by Damon, is not playing to well. The other two are playing up to their potential and have built up a lead that does not seem realistic for Junuh to come back from. Smith works with him ultimately getting his swing back and he starts to make a comeback. Later in the round, Smith gives him some advice that Junuh ignores. This decision does not turn out well and he starts to fall back again.
After hitting a ball into the woods, he is stuck with an impossible show that will make or break his match. The word that Smith gives him, enables him to hit the ball through a seemingly impossible whole in the trees that could symbolize the work of God. Giving him the opportunity to come back from his bad ways and mature in ways that eventually bring him back to a tie with one hole to go. He has a chance to win the match when he calls a penalty on himself when he moves an obstacle in his way, shifting the ball. No one else see this and the other players do not want the penalty to take away from his chance to win. He says that he saw the ball move which is a penalty and he takes it. This shows the way that Junuh has grown up and Smith leaves him before he finishes the match because he said the growing up and maturity of Junuh does not need his help anymore. He hits a great show that eventually bring the match to a three way tie and a satisfying ending for all.
The character that Will Smith plays has a kind of God-like similarity. He gives advice throughout the movie that no one else could tell Junuh, and hearing it from someone who he does not know at all shows that his problems are apparent to everyone. Hearing the guidelines from Smith makes one believe that if not a God-like figure in the apparent situation, Smith is Junuh’s angel. Sent from God to get him back on track to living a successful life. Throughout the whole movie, all Junuh wants to do is win the match, but Smith helps him realize that winning is not everything. Giving your best with what God has given you and making the most of it is in turn a successful journey. The God-like symbolism that this movie uses created the central theme that just because Will Smith plays a character that does not belong in this society, his advice is what ultimately leading Junuh to success.