The Trophy Case was a film produced by the LDS church through the Brigham Young University films department in the year 1980. The movie is about 26 minutes in length. This film begins with a teenage boy who gets into a lot of trouble with the law while with some friends on night. Although it appears that the boy has it all, the truth is that he does not. The boy is a very popular, very talented athlete who has won many awards at his local high school. His father has dedicated a whole room to the trophies he has acquired. Though the boy still feels that something is missing.
He comes home after getting into trouble with the law coming home to his father. His father has father's interview with his son. His father had no real desires to listen to his son, he just wanted to teach him a lesson help him get out of trouble so that he could then have him get back into the football program, get a scholarship, and fulfill the dream of being a champion. This dream however, was not shared by the both of them, this dream was really the dream of the father, as his father was never able to do the things that he wanted his boy to do. The boy dreams of one day taking care of horses at a local stable.
As the argument 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 more angry. The son runs off and goes to a nearby stable where he begins to look after some horses. There is a girl is there and he spills his guts to her. The father comes to the stable and calls back the son, only to see that the son has rode a horse off into the sunset, signifying that the boy will begin a new life without his dad.
This movie is a good story with a strange ending. You are left without any sense of direction, it almost does not feel complete. The LDS church's film making style has changed. The old style is classical edited films with a simple plot usually about people who have problems. Current films from the church use more of a realistic editing and following real people with real events who are making big changes in their lives. LDS film making is not new but has changed dramatically over the years.
Trent Bowen is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a collector of LDS media. He is the owner of http://www.prophetpaintings.com. He believes that LDS art can bless the lives of others.
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