The movie "Remember the Titans" is a character education filled film for all ages. To summarize, this movie takes place in the year nineteen seventy-one and follows the issue of racism. Two high schools in the town of Alexandria, Virginia are being integrated into an African American and Caucasian school, and that mix includes the football team. The movie follows the story of their development. At first, the two races sit, talk, and practice separate. After one practice camp, and one passionate coach, the boys learn to respect and become friendly with each other. However, after the two week practice camp is up and they go back to school, the rest of the high school does not understand why the football players have changed. However, the football …show more content…
This means standing up for what you believe in, and going with your gut. Coach Boone often stands up for his opinion against racism and eventually, the town stands up against racism. However, the most prominent example from the movie are the white football players standing up for their African American friends back at school. After a two week football practice camp in Pennsylvania, the African Americans and whites have blended, and they are all friends. But when they get back to school, nothing has changed; racism is still very much alive. But, the white football players do not turn their backs on their African American football friends, even if their school friends say to. Eventually, they turn the whole town around to see their point of view. As Coach Boone said in the locker room right before their championship game, “You’ve taught this city how to trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him,”. This shows being true to one’s self because they had now realized that racism was wrong, and by sticking up for their opinion, they are being to true to themselves and they convince the whole town. An aspect of character in "Remember the Titans" is being true to one’s self because it shows that they stick with their gut tells them what is right and were true to themselves about their feelings toward
The movie Remember The Titans does a good job of showing the main issue of racism in that time period. It shows it well by showing both sides of them the black and the white and not just one like most movies. The team showed the town that your race doesn't matter it's your personality.This movie shows that even though people are different colors they can become your best
The film Remember the Titans dramatizes the racial tension that still existed in the United States post Civil Right movement; it tells the story of Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) who is hired to coach a football team in a school that was forced to integrate. The fact that Coach Boone had the opportunity to fix some of the problems allows the movie to make the argument that one single person can make a difference even if the problem is racial tensions. Racial tensions were arising every day between team members because their school, T.C. Williams, became integrated. This brought a lot of questions to mind: Are all men created equal? Is it possible for a single person to make an impact on multiple people’s lives? Possibility is an understatement
Based on a true story in 1971, Remember the Titans is about a high school that integrates black people into their all white school. The story is based around their high school football team where Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) an African American, is asked to replace Coach Yoast (Will Patton), who is white and well respected in the community. Coach Yoast steps down to assistant and together they form a football team that comprises of both races. Throughout the football season there are struggles with racial issues between the team members, coaches and the entire community. By the end of the movie the issues of race become irrelevant and the team goes on to a perfect season.
Remember the Titans is a film based on the true story of Coach Herman Boone, who tries to integrate a racially divided team. Throughout training camp and the season, Boone and Yoast 's black and white players learn to accept each other, to work together, and that football knows no race. As they learn from each other, Boone and Yoast also learn from them and in turn, the whole town learns from the team, the Titans. Thus, they are prepared to pursue the State Championship and to deal with and some adversity that threatens to effect their season.
In “The Great Debaters,” James Farmer Sr. (Forest Whitaker) quotes Saint Augustine and states, “An unjust law is no law at all.” This quote really stuck with me throughout the movie. Directed by Denzel Washington, the movie is based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington), the former English professor of Wiley College, Texas, who coaches the Wiley College debate team. The high school debate team, which consists of James Farmer Jr. (Denzel Whitaker), Henry Lowe (Nate Parker), Samantha Booke (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and Hamilton Burgess (Jermaine Williams), fights to make it to the top. Along the way, the team faces many daunting challenges: love, violence, and hatred.
Remember the Titans takes place in the early 1970’s in Alexandria, Virginia and depicts the how a group of young men worked their way through a hostile environment generated by school integration in order to form a cohesive football team. There are four main characters: Head Coach Herman Boone, Assistant Coach Bill Yoast, Team Captain Gerry Bertier, and his defensive line partner, Julius Campbell. For the purpose of this paper’s goal of assessing styles of followership, we will concentrate on only two individuals: Yoast and Bertier. Both Yoast and Bertier could be identified as critical thinkers. Each is able to think independently and is conscious
Remember the Titans is directed by Boaz Yakin and it stars Denzel Washington as Coach Boone, Will Patton as Coach Yoast, Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier, and Wood Harris as Julius Campbell. This film takes place in 1971, right in the middle of the civil right movement at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. The community was forced to integrate schools and the city was on the verge of destruction. The biggest social issue in the time period were racism and segregation. In this film a football team of mixed
That was the semifinal game of the 1971 football playoff season, where somehow the Virginia Titans managed to clinch an undefeated season, despite being faced with numerous challenges along the way. However, every story has to begin somewhere, and in this case, it all began when T.C Williams High School was forced by the American government to integrate it’s black and white population together. Tensions were high, and they certainly
The movie I decided to analyze was Remember the Titans. I examined the dilemmas and ethical choices that were displayed throughout the story. In the early 1970s, two schools in Alexandria Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The Caucasian head coach of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach (Denzel Washington) from North Carolina, which causes a fury among white parents and students. Tensions arise quickly among the players and throughout the community when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Coach Boone is a great example of a leader. He knows he faces a tough year of teaching his hated team. But, instead of listening to the hating town or administrators, Boone pushes his team to their limits and forces good relationships between players, regardless of race. His vision for the team involves getting the players concerned in what the team needs to become, and not what it is supposed to be; a waste. Boone is a convincing leader with a brutal, boot camp approach to coaching. He believes in making the players re-build themselves as a team. When Boone says, You will wear a jacket, shirt, and tie. If you don't have one buy one, can't afford one then borrow one from your old man, if you don't have an old man, then find a drunk, trade him for his. It showed that he was a handy Craftsman and wanted done what he wanted done no matter what it took.During training camp, Boone pairs black players with white players and instructs them to learn about each other. This idea is met with a lot of fighting, but black linebacker Julius Campbell and stubborn white All-American Gerry Bertier. It was difficult for the players to cope with the fact they had to play with and compete with ...
The idea of thoughts and opinions being constructed by society is demonstrated in both texts. In ‘Remember the Titans’ there is conflict throughout the community due to the integration of the Black students via bussing. The outrage that the community displays has no true premise. Supporting the idea that the belief system of the white community has been created throughout the history of the society.This is expressed with multiple mid shots and close ups of angry white parents protesting on the first day of the newly
Remember the Titans was based on the mistrust between the races during desegregation. There was a complete lack of trust between the whites and the African Americans in the community of Alexandria, the coaching staff, and the players. The town was in turmoil due to the federally mandated desegregation. Both races exhibited fear, hatred, and anger, fighting, protesting, and battling the change.
Remember the Titans is a sport/drama film based on a true story about a desegregated football team in Alexander, Virginia. The film begins with T.C Williams High School hiring an African American head coach to lead the new desegregated team. The movie starts off with a lot of racial conflict between both the coaches and the teammates, however, they learn to look pass each other’s racial difference and work together to come out on top as the most undefeated football team in Virginia.
Remember the Titans is a film from 2000 displaying a true story of a racially divided football team from the 1970s. The movie highlights the relationships of the black and white people, and how they learned to interact with each other in a time when this was not the way of life. It brings up a number of questions throughout, of what is right and what is wrong, and really challenges the characters, making it a very interesting movie to watch. I have seen this movie many times, and each time I feel like I get something new out of it. It is a movie that can be used as a teaching tool, it does a great job of interpreting not only what was happening in the United States of America at that time, but social psychology concepts through real life situations.
Remember the Titans tells the story of the T.C. Williams High school football team during the early 1970s. Based on a true story, the movie details the trials and tribulations of the team and their community of supporters as they attempt to set aside their racial differences. The movie begins with the current T.C. Williams head coach, Bill Yoast, being replaced by Herman Boone as a way to reduce racial tension between the white and black communities. It is important to note that coach Yoast is white and coach Boone is African-American. Initially, coach Boone did not want the head coaching job because he thought it was unfair to coach Yoast. However, after realizing how important it was to his community, he took the job and eventually convinces
In The Lion King, racism plays a great role. Racist remarks and symbols are incorporated in almost every scene. Scar plays the evil villain, Disney shows that by making scar gay and having darker fur than the other good lions. Gail Robertson writes, “The fair-haired Mufusa is good while his evil brother scar is the dark skinned, female abusing lion” (43). In the movie when Scar becomes the king, he decided to integrate all the races to pride rock which are known as the hyenas that are played by Hispanics and African- Americans. Shortly after the hyenas came, pride rock became dark, cloudy, and scary. Everyone is taught that its acceptable to mix races and become friends with everybody despite their race. Disney