The Good Ol’ Ole Miss Spirit
You could not have missed the Ole Miss spirit in the film! The University of Mississippi was the alma mater of Leigh Anne Tuohy, Michael Oher, and Collins Tuohy. College football fans would definitely be jealous of a lineage like that. Interestingly enough, this was not Sandra Bullock’s first time portraying an alumnus of Ole Miss. In 1996, she starred in another drama flick called A Time To Kill. In the film, she portrayed the passionate law student Ellen Roark who also went to the University of Mississippi for her undergraduate degree.
The Good Ol’ Ole Miss Spirit
The Book That Served As Inspiration
Anyone who has watched the film can attest to how well Quinton Aaron managed to portray “Big Mike”. However, how much of the character was real and how much was fiction? The film largely drew from the book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, written by Michael Lewis. Michael Oher’s story was only a part of the book, not the entire focus of it. Apart from Michael Oher, the book also discussed the story of the life and career of Lawrence Taylor, who was with the New York Giants from 1981 until 1993.
The Book That Served As Inspiration
