Robert Griffin III once said that "Football is football. Talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference." A based on a true story Disney film, Remember the Titans showed how a diverse football team became one. Disney wanted to make a feel good movie but they left out a few key points for a white and black high school football team come together. This being said, I believe Remember the Titans was not an accurate movie because of the racial issues, how the football scenes were depicted, and the climax of movie were not portrayed the same in real life. The movie was filmed in Alexanderia, Virgina where a town loved the game of football. It starts out as protestors standing outside of T.C. Williams High School on the first day of school. According to ESPN it wasnt like that at all, yes people were upset that the school was becoming integrated, fights abrawled but not to a point where people where picketing it. In a Reel Life article Jeff Merron states, "My friend Bill Yoast ... told me Disney had taken liberties with the facts, suggesting an overheated atmosphere of racial animosities and fears at the school and in the community that just hadn't …show more content…
Gerry Bertier was a captain, starting line backer, and the team leader of T.C. Williams football team. Bertier was coming home from the fall sports banquet were he just recieved Most Valuable Defensive Player award. He was driving his mothers Camaro and it went out of control striking a fire hydrant and sending it into the ditch. There Gerry was sent to the hospital and was paralyzed from the wasted down. Later determined the engine had a major malfunction stated in the Chasing the Frog article on Remember the Titans. In the movie this scene was told that the accident happened before the championship game but in reality it happened after. Gerry did play in the Championship game along side his fellow
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
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
The color of someone's skin doesn't tell who they are everyone is human. Remember the titans is directed by Boaz Yakin, and stars Denzel Washington as coach boone, Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier, Will Patton as Bill Yoast, and Wood Harris as Julius Campbell. The movie takes place in Alexandria Virginia 1971, right as the school was starting to integrate to form T.C. Williams High School It was one of the few schools in the south to integrate this early. Racism was a big issue for African Americans The movie had a good way of showing the main social issue of racism in Alexandria.
The Titans were flawless, in the sense that they were greater than the gods. They could not be killed, and thus they were invincible. Their universe was ruled with absolute power. The football team of T.C. Williams High School were the Titans of Alexandra, Virginia. Their football field was their universe and with such power, they controlled the field with merciless victory. This did not mean that the players were perfect, rather that together, unified perfection was achieved. In the film Remember the Titans, many social issues became points of focus, with racism predominantly being mentioned above all else.
Walter Winchell once said, “Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” The movie Remember The Titans gives truth to this quote. Produced in 2000, this movie stars actors such as Denzel Washington, Will Patton and Wood Harris. One may think that this movie is just about football but its depth is so much more. Taking place in Alexandria, Virginia, race mixing is unheard of until 1971 when T.C. Williams High School is established. When the schools are integrated a new football coach is brought in and the community and students are not happy about it, as the new coach is an African American. This movie shows how people overcome adversity and unite as one to achieve a common goal.
Remember the Titans was a film based on the 1970s, a time of racial segregation. The Gettysburg Speech, given by Coach Boone, is an attempt to persuade his players to integrate regardless their racial differences. He brings the team to Gettysburg to deliver his speech, hoping to emphasize the point he is trying to make. Coach Boone explains that they too will be destroyed like the men of Gettysburg if they do not end this feud. Coach Boone was able to successfully unify his team despite their racial differences by effectively utilizing imagery, alliteration, and pausing throughout his speech.
A couple of films that I watched personally that I feel really speaks to the culture and tensions of the time the film was to take place is Remember the Titans a movie about racial tension as town begins to desegregating schools and the other film is Men of Honor which was a film inspired by the true story of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear the first african american navy diver. Both of these films deal heavily with racism in the United States. The first film Remember the Titans was set in the 1970’s during a point in time where in the United States was going through a cultural change of the civil rights movements of equality for African Americans. The film is centered around a town that is desegregating its school and allowing black students
There is so much that can be learned from the past. Especially from an event that was as catastrophic as this one. How does one person gain such a grip on so many people? How was he able to influence them to change their entire life’s to conform to what he wanted. Somehow he was able to get them to move to a completely new place and create a world all their (his) own. How does one person convince and force so many people that it was time for their life to end? How does he force them to kill themselves? So many questions that are still being answered to this day. There are plenty of movies and research done on this event but there is still a lot to learn.
Part of the movie focuses on the culture and lifestyle of the Polynesian community within Salt Lake City, Utah. That also means shedding light on the gang-violence and drug abuse that exists in some of the low-income Polynesian communities. Gangs like the Regulators, threaten to derail the four players followed in the film. “This particular gang has had a great impact on the Bloomfield brothers, because their family is famous for holding ties with them” (Berkshire, Film Review: ‘In Football We Trust’). They face the pressure of becoming pulled into the violence and drugs as a means to survive and generate income for their families in lieu of an NFL contract. The importance of this ever-present struggle within the players drives home the importance of performing on the field in order for them to rise above their
Joe Herman would get Craig Poythress for a one-yard loss as the Golden Panthers continue to try and run up the gut of the defense that had as many as ten in the box at times. The drive came to a close soon after as the defense refused to give an inch.
Remember the Titans is a film that was made in the year 2000, and it depicts many aspects of racial inequality. Racial inequality can be defined as discrimination based on race in opportunity for things such as socioeconomic mobility or access to certain goods and/or services. In the United States, this discrimination can have a strong effect on many aspects of society such as home life and employment. A large gap between Caucasians and African-Americans still exists in America. In this film, there are more white people than there are black people. In terms of major roles, there are about five black characters and more than fifteen white characters. Although the degree of importance of the black characters is pretty high, the quantity still does not compare to the white characters.
The Gridiron Gang is a movie that was released September 15, 2006. This movie was based on a true story starring Dewayne Johnson (The Rock) as Sean Porter. The movie tells the story of a counselor at a juvenile detention facility desperately looking for a way to make a difference; he and his co-worker Malcolm Moore (Xzibit) devise a plan to teach discipline and responsibility through the game of football. They only had four weeks before the start of the season to put together a competitive team. This season would test their minds, bodies, and spirits, but would teach them how to work well with others and to always respect one another. It tells the story of The Kilpatrick Mustangs during the 1990 season.
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 ...
... 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 displays a team that puts a dent into a major problem in the United States at that time. Through leadership they were able to break through a common thought, and as I have said before it really is inspiring to watch. As Coach Boone said, “Make sure they always remember the night they played the Titans” (Moviequotes.com)”
In the movie, Perseus, the mortal son of Zeus, fights the monsters of the underworld to stop them from taking over the heavens and earth. The story according to the Greeks, Perseus, the mortal son of Zeus, goes on an adventure to recieve the head of Medusa to save his mom from marrying King Polydectes and along the way falls in love Princess Andromeda. Between the two stories there are similarities and differences in each version.