# Wendell Brown · the medicated running back

a carbon of the VBL (Varsity Blues, 1999) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Wendell Brown:VBL:23e5ba⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Eliel Swinton · the medicated runner — the cost, doubled by race

**who —** Wendell Brown — the Black running back who carries the ball, the coach's painkillers, and the coach's prejudice all at once.
**what —** The doubled cost: the scholarship is his only door, and Kilmer knows it, so Wendell takes the needle and the slights and keeps running.
**where —** In the backfield, in the training room, under the coach's contempt.
**why —** Because the film's cost-to-young-bodies theme has a racial dimension, present in the movie if light in the summaries.
**how —** By absorbing the painkillers and the prejudice because the way out runs straight through the man dealing both.

**the seal —** I carry the ball, the needle, and the coach's prejudice — because the scholarship is the only door, and he holds it.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of Varsity Blues (1999) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© Paramount Pictures / MTV Films).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · VBL · Varsity Blues · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0