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…
players are reunited, and that helps them to achieve a perfect football season record. Throughout the movie as the football team improves, the town becomes closer, and racism seems to fade away. By the end of the movie, the town has banded together, and a few reasons for that are courage, being to true to one’s self, and fairness. The movie “Remember the Titans” exemplifies true character education because it demonstrates courage, being true to one’s self, and fairness. The movie “Remember the Titans” exemplifies true character education through courage. Courage is the means to face difficulty or danger. Multiple acts of courage occur throughout the movie when many stand up to racism and people that believed in it. One character that demonstrates courage is Coach Boone. He is made head coach in place of a famous white coach, and he endures waves of verbal and physical attacks from the community. Coach Boone knows he is hated in this town, but he does not care and does the best he can to coach this football team. At first, the whites think he will favor his own race and will be a horrible coach compared to the award winning one he replaced. He receives threats and objects are thrown at his house. However, he stands his ground and continues train these men. His courage pays off because the football team has an undefeated season. As Coach Boone once said, “I don’t scratch my head unless it itches and I don’t dance unless I hear some music. I will not be intimidated. That’s just the way it is,”. This shows courage because he blazes his own path in spite of the difficulty of the people in the town. In the movie "Remember the Titans", Coach Boone shows a great deal courage. Another aspect of character in "Remember the Titans" is being true to one’s self.
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
racism. One final aspect of character in "Remember the Titans" is being fair. Fairness is a quality of making judgement that are free from discrimination. Fairness is shown several times throughout this movie. One grand example of this is treatment of the African Americans and the white players by the coach and each other. First, the African American coach, Coach Boone, treats the both races of players the same. He does not favor one race over the other; he pushes them equally as hard, and punishes them the same. For example, when Coach Boone meets the black players, the players all think that since he is black, he will favor them, so they try and act cool with him. But when one of them is messing around, Coach Boone says in a very stern voice, “Put your hand down!”. This shows fairness because he was not going to favor based on race; he was going to fair. The next way "Remember the Titans" shows fairness is in how the footballs players learned fairness throughout the movie. In the beginning of the movie, the white boys do not treat the white boys fairly because of their race. But then they learn that that is unfair way to treat people since Coach Boone put them in their place by multiple speeches. The players learned to respect and treat each other with fairness no matter what race. The movie "Remember the Titans” shows the character of people by treating each other fairly. Three aspects of character in the movie "Remember the Titans" are courage, being true to yourself, and fairness. These three aspects blended together result in an important lesson. Courage is exemplified by the African American who is determined head coach to be the best coach he can be even though he is hated in this town. He has to go out on the field every day, and shows leadership in spite of the hatred, and that takes courage. The second aspects is being true to one’s self. After they return from training camp, the white football players stand up for their African American teammates who are being treated poorly by other high school classmates because of their race. After getting to know their black teammates, the white men realize they are all the same and stand up for those beliefs back in school. The head coach shows fairness by treating all the players the same, no matter what race, and the players eventually learn throughout the movie that they should too. The movie "Remember the Titans" focuses on a true story about racism, and how a town was brought together through a football team. It shows character education for all to follow, by showcasing some of the aspects of character such as courage, being true to one’s self, and fairness.
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
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 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 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 ...
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.
The Civil Rights Era impacted the realm of sports in a great and powerful way. Throughout the mid 1900s, many minority athletes emerged through all odds and began to integrate themselves in the white dominated athletic business. These athletes endured constant hardships in order to achieve their goals and dreams; facing much racism, segregation, and violence. Minorities across the country began to look up to these sportsmen and realized that anybody could attain greatness despite the social troubles of the time. Stories depicting the struggles of minority athletes soon arose and grew popular among different cultures. These true accounts passed from generation to generation, each admiring the courage and bravery of athletes and how important they became in obtaining an equal society. Producers and directors soon found a way to revolutionize the film industry by retelling the racial discrimination that minority athletes faced. Remember the Titans, The Perfect Game, 42, and The Express are all examples of how minority athletes overcame racial adversities in order to obtain the championship. These Hollywood movies contain many inaccuracies that draw away from the true impact minority athletes had during the Civil Right Era. Although these films do depict the racial components of the time, they do not depict the accurate occurrences of the stories they try to recreate.
In the movie "Remember the Titans" there are many lessons that every person should learn in their life. One of the most important lessons is that of racism. In this day and age some people believe that racism is over because there are no longer any slaves, some people believe that there is still racism but that it is ok. I believe that those people would benefit a great deal from seeing this movie. I know that there is still racism, I also know that it is not okay.
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 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 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
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