How did she even know to steal the Clover's routines? That high school seemed to be a good distance from where she lived. And the girls on the Toros team did not seem to be the types to "slum it" and have friends from a poorer district.
shareYour question doesn't make any sense? You're asking how she knew like the Clovers' routines were the right answer to a question or something? But if you're asking why, you already answered. They're schools are miles apart. Meaning that no one from either school would see them do the cheers. And the Toros wouldn't "slum it" so they would never know about it.
shareWow, I didn't think the question would be that difficult to understand.
Since the schools are so far apart, when would Big Red have seen the Clovers cheer? Did she go from high school to high school, looking for routines to steal?
I guess she saw them at a competition, saw their cheers were good, and started stealing them.
shareHmm, a good question. Maybe the competition thing is right, though I got the impression this was the first year they made any competition. Of course, it wouldn't make sense to have a routine to steal for a competition if they weren't competing.
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Haha, that's a good question. I also noticed that when Missy and Torrance were driving to Compton, the road sign they passed said it was over 100 miles to Los Angeles. That's what, a 2-hour drive there and then back? And how did Missy know that they were having a game that night?
shareI was just going to say that. The road sign says it is 100 or so miles to Los Angeles. Imagine the gas problem she would be having today! And I too wondered why just the one school. You would think she would be stealing from more than one school and from one that was closer. That Missy's old school would be playing East Compton makes sense since it was in Los Angeles. But she still could not not have known they were practicing. If they hadn't been, Isis and the other girls might have still confronted them by breaking out into their routine, as they did when they showed up at RCH's game. And how did they get away with that? Their own team wasn't playing then?
shareI think Missy could afford gas, her family was loaded.
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Not Missy--Big Red, when she went to and from Compton to videotape the cheers. She more than likely went more than once a month or even more then once a week.
Missy transferred to Torrance's school from one in Los Angeles. She may have known the playing schedule, or she may have called a friend from her cell phone on the way to confirm there was a game.
The fact that she recognized the Clovers' routine at all would indicate that even though she wasn't a cheerleader at her old school, Missy must've gone to the football games in the area.
Compton and San Diego aren't all that far away, and they would have likely been in the same regional competition at some point. Also, people talk, and they could have heard about their routines.
shareSince the movie never says anything about how they found this team to begin with I am going to hypothesize the following:
1. They have been stealing the routines for several years, so Big Red couldn't have been the first captain to steal them.
2. The former captains scouted out rumors of good squads and checked them out as potential sources, finally settling on the Clovers.
by MeanKitty86 » Sat Mar 19 2011 15:03:30 Flag ▼ | Reply |
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How did she even know to steal the Clover's routines? That high school seemed to be a good distance from where she lived. And the girls on the Toros team did not seem to be the types to "slum it" and have friends from a poorer district.
I could actually see that...I grew up in St. Louis, and had cousins who lived in Kansas City, which is a four hour drive. Every so often, we'd pack up right after school/work on Friday and drive across the state for a visit (or vice versa) and spend the weekend with them. This would occasionally mean they would see my softball games (held on weekends) or I would see their team games.
Big Red may have very well had family in Los Angeles that she was visiting, and went with them to a game they were playing against the Clovers, where she first saw them and realized they had some good routines that she could take. She probably banked on the 'impoverished team, can't afford to go to competitions' + 'two hours away' and figured she'd never get caught/found out about stealing their routines.
If she has family in the area, then she has the perfect story. "Hey mom, dad, I'm going to go visit Uncle Bob and Aunt Carol in L.A. for the weekend." Takes off with her video camera, films the Clovers, comes back home.
I couldn't help but wonder if she initially used a stolen routine to help her become captain of the squad, and just kept going back and stealing more to keep her position.
It was clear to me that Big Red did not start the tradition of stealing from the clovers. If she's a graduating senior at the start of the film, and they were 5 time champions, that would mean she had been captain of the squad since 8th grade, or since 9th and had to repeat a year. High school is four years long.
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