Guest Blogger: Odong O1

Rudy is a fictional movie set in the 1960, about a young man with ambition and determination to accomplish his goal as a Notre Dame Football player. The young student’s name is Rudy Ruettiger, at the start of the film, Rudy is seen with his friends at a young age playing football in mid-winter, the scene then moves on to Rudy’s last high school year and last football practice, in which he is respected and recognized by his peers, and later on in class, a teacher informs the whole classroom about a college visit to Notre Dame, and that caught Rudy’s attention, and thought about going. When the students were being loaded onto the bus, Rudy steps up and the teacher tells Rudy that he can’t go, he tells him that Notre Dame is a serious school and he has no chance a getting in with the grades that Rudy has, and with that scene, the film then begins. For the next 4-5 years, in the film, Rudy is stuck at a job with his dad and his brother, working at a power plant. Then later on in the movie, Rudy’s best friend whom also worked at the power plant gets into a terrible accident at the plant that costs him his life, Rudy then sets his life together and makes a plan to go to Notre Dame, but he must first get his grades up, and to do so he goes to a school nearby where he meets his good new friend whom he nicknames D-Bob, that helps him get through the hard classes he has to take at the junior college, Rudy applies to Notre Dame for 2 years, and on the 4rth try he finally gets in, and later on accepted on the team as a practice squad player, and the film continues on as Rudy works hard to play his first game.