Remember The Titans Essay

Essay on Remember the Titans

The movie Remember the Titans by Boaz Yakin is an interesting and thought-provoking movie that shows the transformation of people of different races through hardships and pain. One of the people that change entirely through this film is Gerry Bertier, a white American football captain, who starts off with a prejudiced, skeptical mindset taught with propaganda but at the end, leaves with an unbiased, friendly mindset after a series of significant events throughout the movie.

The movie starts off in 1971, in Alexandria, Virginia, where two schools of different races, whites, and blacks, have joined, although the tension between the two races causes riots there. At first, Gerry is prejudiced against the black people and does not want to have them in their football team. This is stated by Gerry at the start of the movie, when he is frustrated about the black people taking the football positions of the whites, and Gerry says to the assistant coach “Why don’t you kick them (The black people) all off the team,

This statement is supported in the movie when Gerry goes to play with Julius, but his mother has doubts. Gerry then says to her “Just give him a chance, just get to know him,” Which was the exact opposite of what he was before, where he refused to play with any “black animals”. Another big change is how Gerry calls people, from calling black people animals to respecting them. This is proven by what Gerry says when he is lying in the hospital, injured and Julius tries to come in. Gerry’s nurse tries to stop Julius and says “Only kin’s allowed in here,” but then Gerry says to her “Can’t you see the family resemblance? He’s my brother,” Which clearly shows Gerry’s respect for Julius, as he calls him brother, a game-changing and surprising moment in the film and abnormal moment in that