Bull Durham: To The True Meaning Of The First Fight Scene Essay

Bull shorthorn To the True Meaning of The First Fight Scene     The study of this paper is to dissect the first fight scene in themovie Bull Durham, between doss down Davis who is played by Kevin Costner and"Nuke" LaLoosh who is played by Tim Robbins. The fight takes place in a barscene between these two men who have never met before. The reason for the fightis that break Davis is talk to a women by the name of Annie Savoy who issitting at one of the tables. Nuke already believes that Annie is going to bewith him all season long, but descend believes otherwise.     In the beginning of the scene Nuke is dancing with all of the women inthe bar while belt is sitting alone in the corner of the bar. bash thenorders a drink for Annie, and is then asked by Annie to come over and sit by her.Crash introduces himself to Annie and tells her that he is the new catcher onthe Durham Bulls baseball team. At the same time Nuke comes over and as k Annieto dance, but Crash stands up and says that she is dancing with him. When Crashstands up in figurehead of him, Nuke takes this as a challenge and he asks Crash ifhe wants to take it outside. At this point Nuke still does not go that Crashis his new catcher. While Nuke is waiting for Crash outside, Crash begins towonder how he is going give Nuke his first lesson to make it to the majors.     When Crash at long last comes outside he sees that Nuke is standing in themiddle of the street. Nuke is not alone he has the entire baseball teamstanding shag him. First, Crash says that he does not want to fight him.When Crash says this everyone else begins to tease Crash. Next, Crash tellsNuke to throw the first punch, but Nuke refuses to. So instead, Crash tellsNuke to throw a baseball as hard as he can right at Crashs chest. When Nukehears this everyone around him including himself begin to laugh, because theyknow how hard Nuke can throw and that it could kill C rash if it hit him in thechest or the head.     During this entire time Crash is keeping a cool head. He knows that thechance of Nuke hitting him is very small. Also, he tells Nuke that he wont beable to do it because he is beginning to value intimately it. Crash goes so far asto say that Nukes aim is so bad that he could not hit water if he sink ... ... he wentabout getting his point across. He could of either been beat up very badly orhe could of been killed by the baseball.     When Crash stands up and grabs Nukes arm he is trying to defend hisasking of Annie to dance and instantly invades Nukes space. Nukes attitudetowards this is not to back down, but to stay where he is and to fight about it.When Crash grabs Nukes arm he is also using touch to get his message across.By grabbing the arm Crash instantly places more emphases on his words.      non only were there misunderstandings in this conversation, but if theyhad not happened the argument never would have taken place. The firstmisunderstanding was that Nuke did not know that Crash was his new teammate andcatcher. Another misunderstanding was that they both did not know that Anniehad already choose which man she was going to take under her arm for the season.     The misunderstandings that occurred in this confrontation, tells us thatone main problem is men and the way that they act towards each other. Also, ifhumans would try to communicate instead of fighting changes could be make.