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42: The Jackie Robinson Story

2013· article· en· W97788449 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueNine · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAmerican Sports and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHEROPrideArt historyLeagueArtHistoryLiteraturePhilosophyTheology
DOInot available

Abstract

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42: Robinson Story. Written and directed by Brian Helgeland. Warner Bros., 2013. Early in review of 42, chief New York Times film critic A.O. Scott calls this movie Blunt, simple and sentimental. So is the Bible. Wanna make some-thin' o' dat? This is an exciting, tension-building, satisfying, and ultimately uplifting movie. would defy anyone who in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, when Brooklyn's became the Jackie Robinson Dodgers and number 42 became the pride and hero of virtually every Brooklynite, not to enjoy, be deeply moved, and be inspired by this carefully researched and documented account of the shattering of Major League Baseball's color barrier. In a prerelease interview, writer and director Brian Hegleland explained that in writing the script, he was trying to make sure every moment documented. It shows, seamlessly. Could someone complain that the film (at two hours and eight minutes) goes on a bit too long, the point having been gotten sooner than that? Yes, that case could be argued. Could someone carp that in key scenes the music used to underscore virtue's triumph is too obvious, too loud, too unnecessarily insistent? Yes, not an outlandish observation. Might it be said that newcomer Chadwick Boseman--although, by parts, appropriately cool and appropriately hot, almost always dignified--as Jackie, plays it just a tad too taciturn and buttoned up, for those of us who remember the opinionated, palpably passionate, highly articulate, sometimes profane, feisty, mature Robinson? Perhaps, although the film doesn't go beyond Robinson's 1947 rookie season. In any event, these cinematic peccadillos are not nearly enough to erode the overall scintillating, exhilarating effect of this project. A rather long while ago, someone commented that The Robinson story is one that cannot be told too many times. It is an unabashed, unembarrassed, unambiguous morality tale in which the good guys win the big ones. It is inextricably embedded in twentieth-century US history, and is as mythologically American as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, FDR'S depression assuaging New Deal, and Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream speech. King himself once said, No Robinson no Martin Luther King. And he observed that Jackie Robinson a freedom rider before there were freedom riders. All the iconic moments are here. * Rickey, in their first encounter, calls Robinson a nigger son of a bitch to test prospective player's powers of restraint. Robinson asking, Mr. Rickey, do you want a ballplayer who's afraid to fight back? and Rickey retorting, No, want a ballplayer who's not afraid to not fight back. * Manager Leo Durocher (a salty portrayal by Christopher Meloni) reacts to a spring-training petition by some of the opposed to playing with Robinson by calling a middle-of-the-night team meeting and screaming at players: I don't care if he's yellow or has stripes like a zebra. If he can play, and from everything I've seen he can, he plays. And boys, he's only the first. They're coming and they want to play. And if you don't pay attention to your jobs they'll take them. * Ralph Branca (Hamish Linklater), who won twenty-one games in Brooklyn's 1947 pennant season, urges Robinson to shower with the rest of his team. (According to Peter Golenbock's Bums, it actually another player of Italian extraction, Al Gionfriddo, maker of that immortal catch off a Joe Dimaggio blast in Game Six of the 1947 World Series). * Captain Harold Pee Wee Reese (Lucas Black) during a game in Cincinnati, near hometown of Louisville, comes across the infield to Robinson as the taunts and epithets crest, and conspicuously puts arm around number 42 and stays there chatting with Robinson. fans, like it or not, got the point. One of the most winning aspects of the film is Harrison Ford's pitch-perfect performance as general manager Branch Rickey, who resolved to introduce an African American player into Major League Baseball. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.392
Threshold uncertainty score0.813

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1880.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.183
Teacher spread0.174 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it