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“You make sure they remember, FOREVER, the night they played the Titans!” Too many events were changed, or even never happened when the team was training at the football camp. Racism was brought to an extreme at T.C. Williams High School unlike the real life events. Players, coaches, and fans were changed and added to a point where they could be considered different people. Due to there being more differences than similarities with the real story and the movie, Remember the Titans should most definitely not use the phrase “Based on a True Story.”
While the team was at the football camp, many events were changed and added. In Remember the Titans, the T.C. Williams High School football team is clearly divided by race. Real life, however, the …show more content…

Williams High School. When T.C. Williams High School opened in 1965, unlike 1971 like the movie showed, it was already desegregated. It was never an all white school. In 1971, however, the three schools merged and sent 11th and 12th graders to T.C. Williams. All three of the schools already had both whites and black attending. Ron Bass, a white hippy from California, stated “They (the movie) had a community divided down black and white, and it really wasn't like that in 1971 Alexandria,” meaning the racial tensions were exaggerated. On the first day of school after the desegregation, there were tons of protesters from the community. This event never happened because the all three schools were already desegregated six years earlier in 1965, and by now have well adjusted to the new experience. One person that did help break the little “color barrier” that was left was Louie Lastik, a white offensive lineman. He grew up near a black neighborhood and had both white and black friends. All of the fighting that was going on during the football camp was not because of race. It was due to position competition. After all the school’s merged, and brought a football team with each of them, they had to move some players around to account for the extra people. If there was a starting quarterback in one school, but another better one in the other, the better one would get the spot, and in turn causing fighting. This goes to show that racism was a key …show more content…

In the beginning of the movie when Coach Boone is taking over Coach Yoast’s, former white head coach, as head coach the white teammates all say that they will take the year off and try to get a petition signed to get him back as head coach. This actually happened. Coach Tyrell, a white fictional character, wants Coach Yoast to stay the head coach so Yoast can be in the Virginia High School Hall of Fame that didn’t even exist in 1971. Coach Boone is depicted in the movie like a man with no warm side at all. He even says “This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.” Coach Boone did make the team do some hard work, but he definitely had a warmer side that was not showed in the movie. Gerry Bertier, white linebacker and team captain, did get into a terrible car accident that paralyzed him from the chest down, however it happened after the championship game when he was driving home from an awards banquet instead of before the big championship game that caused him not to play. Sheryl Yoast, daughter of Coach Yoast, was shown as a major football-crazed kid. Sheryl did enjoy football and went to all of the games, but she was exaggerated too much. The character of this movie were changed

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