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''The Express: The Ernie Davis Story'' is a 2008 sports film based on the life of Ernie Davis, [[JackieRobinsonStory the first African-American football player]] to win the Heisman Trophy, the most esteemed award in UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball. Starring Rob Brown as Davis and Creator/DennisQuaid as coach Ben Schwartzwalder, the movie is also the film debut of Creator/ChadwickBoseman in a brief cameo appearance as future NFL star [[UsefulNotes/NFLOffensivePlayers Floyd Little]].
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''The Express: The Ernie Davis Story'' is a 2008 sports film based on the life of Ernie Davis, [[JackieRobinsonStory the first African-American football player]] to win the Heisman Trophy, the most esteemed award in UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball. Starring Rob Brown Creator/RobBrown as Davis and Creator/DennisQuaid as coach Ben Schwartzwalder, the movie is also the film debut of Creator/ChadwickBoseman in a brief cameo appearance as future NFL star [[UsefulNotes/NFLOffensivePlayers Floyd Little]].
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''The Express: The Ernie Davis Story'' is a 2008 sports film based on the life of Ernie Davis, [[JackieRobinsonStory the first African-American football player]] to win the Heisman Trophy, the most esteemed award in UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball. Starring Rob Brown as Davis and Creator/DennisQuaid as coach Ben Schwartzwalder, the movie is also the film debut of Creator/ChadwickBoseman in a brief cameo appearance as future NFL star [[UsefulNotes/NFLOffensivePlayers Floyd Little]].
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The climax of the film is set at the Cotton Bowl, but the Orangemen had already been selected as the national champion at the end of the regular season. The film likewise fudges the scores, numbers, and locations of several games, actually making some events ''less'' dramatic than their real counterparts for the sake of simplicity. Of course, many former players from Syracuse's opponents have also rejected their depictions as outright racists, and while those protests can be taken with a certain grain of salt, the scene at West Virginia could not have occurred because the team played that school at home in 1959.
* BigGame: The 1960 Cotton Bowl Classic against Texas for Syracuse's first national championship [[ArtisticLicenceHistory (unlike real life, where they had already been selected before the bowl game)]].
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Davis faces multiple instances of explicit racial discrimination, particularly when playing in the South.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The climax of the film is set at the Cotton Bowl, but the Orangemen had already been selected as the national champion at the end of the regular season. The film likewise fudges the scores, numbers, and locations of several games, actually making some events ''less'' dramatic than their real counterparts for the sake of simplicity. Of course, many former players from Syracuse's opponents have also rejected their depictions as outright racists, and while those protests can be taken with a certain grain of salt, the scene at West Virginia could not have occurred because the team played that school at home in 1959.
* BigGame: The 1960 Cotton Bowl Classic against Texas for Syracuse's first national championship [[ArtisticLicenceHistory (unlike real life, where they had already been selected before the bowl game)]].
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Davis faces multiple instances of explicit racial discrimination, particularly when playing in the South.
