Film influence

The movie that influenced the opening of our children’s film for me was the film ‘Like Mike’. The movie is about a small child who lives in a foster home with cruel and unreasonable man and many other children. One of the boys is a clear nemesis to the main character. This is demonstrated through a grudge match of basketball resulting in the nemesis character winning. The main character finds a pair of shoes previously owned by basketball legend: Michael Jordan. He uses these shoes (that turn out to give the boy ‘superhuman basketball skills’) not only to achieve stardom but also to get his comeuppance on the court, against his foe. This relates to our idea because our main character (jimmy Hopkins) begins as a social pariah and a general underdog of his school, with a clear bully making his life at school difficult. He then finds a phone with the power to stop time giving him the ability to cause mischief and retaliate. Unfortunately, due to complications, we had to re-film our sequence and were only able to establish the phone’s power and Hopkins’ social misfortune, leaving out the revenge he takes on his bully.