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 Twenty-two men pouring their heart and soul out on a field of battle once a week. These guys get the job done on a consistent basis. But the world around them makes it all but impossible to concentrate on the task at hand. These warriors are of course professional football players. In Oliver Stone’s movie Any Given Sunday the lives of these warriors is portrayed on and off the field. Stone does many things to create his football world, a combination of creating a very realistic and glamourized world in which the character players live. By showing the distractions around the game in this world(sports analysts, endorsements), and by using emotion to show the need for all these players to be together as one, rather then being large than life individuals. Oliver Stone, in Any Given Sunday, shows that despite the media and society’s hunger for a strong individual or superstar from a sports team, what is truly needed is a strong team and an even stronger belief in team ideals. In the movie Stone creates very realistic lives for the players by bombarding the viewer’s senses of sight and sound, this allows the viewer to gain an excellent insight into the conflicts between the ideas of individuals