The Trophy Case was a film produced by the LDS church through Brigham Young University’s film department in 1980. The film is approximately 26 minutes long. This movie begins with a teenager who gets into a lot of trouble with the law while hanging out with friends at night. Although it seems that the boy has everything, the truth is that he does not. The boy is a very popular and talented athlete who has won many awards at his local high school. His father has dedicated an entire room to the trophies he has acquired. Although the boy still feels something is missing.
He returns home after getting in trouble with the law by returning home to his father. His father has the father’s interview with his son. His father had no real desire to listen to his son, he just wanted to teach him a lesson and help him get out of trouble so that later he could return to the soccer program, get a scholarship, and fulfill the dream of being. a champion. However, this dream was not shared by both of them, this dream was really the father’s dream, as his father could never do the things that he wanted his son to do. The boy dreams of one day taking care of horses in a local stable.
As the discussion continues, the boy realizes that the dream is not his and that his father has not been listening to him. The boy is resentful and tells his dad that he no longer wants the trophies and that his dad can keep them. His father only gets angrier. The son runs off and goes to a nearby stable where he begins to tend some horses. There is a girl there and he talks to her with his guts. The father comes to the stable and calls the son, only to see that the son has gone on horseback towards sunset, which means that the boy will start a new life without his father.
This movie is a good story with a strange ending. You are left without any sense of direction, it hardly feels complete. The cinematic style of the LDS church has changed. The old style is classic edited movies with a simple plot, usually about people having problems. Current church movies use a more realistic editing and follow real people with real events that are making big changes in their lives. LDS movie making is not new, but it has changed dramatically over the years.