Remember The Titans Film Analysis

In Remember the Titans we witness Coach Boone fighting for civil rights, signifying the image of an outsider integrating into a foreign white team as their coach. Director Boaz Yakin, uses techniques to strengthen Coach Boone’s character where the initial hate and disrespect towards him succours the development of a meaningful arc. The disrespect and aggression is employed when a brick is thrown through his house window, threatening him with the derogatory coloured comments calling him “Coach Coon”. The pressure of quitting was not felt and heroically he encompasses the journey with Yakin emphasising Boones evocative discipline and determination forcing integration amongst the segregated football team. This technique is employed when we witness Coach Boone stepping up, pushing equality for the players in a determined strike to stop racial abuse for good. His actions initiate the forced building of friendship and acceptance when he forces both races to get to know and accept each other at the camp. Yakin heightens the themes of overcoming racism when Boone rallies the troops together to support their team mate during a sad time. Instinctively, the implicit segregation is evoked further bringing unity to the team, Coach Boone emerges as a ‘hero’ to both the coloured and white community.

In 1971 Coach Herman Boone replaced a popular, successful white coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in that community's effort to finally integrate its schools. The school and community were angrily divided by the federal integration order, and the volatility of the situation was heightened by the abrupt demotion of Coach Yoast and Boone's promotion to Head Coach. In this movie Coach Boone is on a mission to try to get the white and black players to unite and play together as a team. He wanted the two races to become a team. Around that time, there was a lot of racism and a lot of schools were segregated, so the players obviously didn't get along with each other at first. A lot changed when Boone replaced Yoast

Remember The Titans is a great football movie, and an even better civil rights movie. The movie shows how TC Williams handled desegregation and how the football team brought the community together. When the white players and black players came together for the first time, they did not get along. Coach Herman Boone took the team to a camp, and the players started to get along. When the players went back to school, they experienced the racism all over again. Eventually, the team helped the school and community get over the desegregation.

Many stereotypes come into play at this point in the movie. The coaches gather up all the players so they can go to training camp at Gettysburg College, while gathering the students on a bus, Boone makes the players sit next to each other. Neither one of the ethnic groups like this very much. Once they get to the camp, they get paired to room together. One of the

The 1970s was the era for American African civil rights movements. In Virginia, located in the south-center of the United States, the population were still very conservative. There’s a high school football team called the “Titans” with only white players. Yet, the school followed the racial integration policy which accepted many black students. This caused the Titan team to become a blended team. In addition, the school also demoted the already extremely successful white Coach Yoast and let a black man Boone to be the head coach because of the policy. Many white students and their parents protested and threatened they are going to quit. The residents were also are the same as these students, as they had suspicious and had doubts. Black man in a superior position towards a white man is a very dissonant combination, and the team players despised each other. Even the school didn’t support Coach Boone and claimed he will be replaced as soon as he loses one game. It’s not an easy job to train this team and trying to get them to co-operate, he is not only needing to hone the students’ playing skills but also the team morale and the contradiction between him and the assistant coach. The worst thing is the whole society resist this blended team. In this film, Coach Boone perfectly demonstrates the Five

In this essay I will prove to you that Remember The Titans showed more racism/discrimination/prejudices towards African Americans than Hairspray. Remember the titans is a perfect example for a Friday night movie for your kids it’s educational towards how you should treat everyone no matter what skin tone the same and it won’t make the kids bored because of its humour and it’s just a feel good movie that you can watch with the whole family. In Hairspray i think it’s too complicated for the younger generation for most kids their childhood is watching sports when you’re living in North America so it can be relatable. In remember the titans there’s more racism such as when the football captain’s girlfriend wouldn’t talk to Julius or like his mom wouldn’t let him over and said “what would your father think of this” it shows the mindset of the people back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s in the south states.

Players started to be assertive with each other basically only trying to tolerate just enough to get them through games and practice. Their coach, Boone, whose African-American makes the football team come together to get familiar with each other to lessen the uncalled for tension. He lets his team know that he is there so they can win hoping that winning games would bring them closer together and end the prejudice thoughts among the team. Which later on down the line the coach becomes more like a father figure to some players and their respect for him as a coach but also as a man rises.

For the first time, blacks and whites were going to be on the same football team. And not only that, the school board assigned a black coach, Coach Herman Boone, forcing the previous white coach, Coach Yoast, in his “hall of fame” season, to move down to defensive coordinator. The Titans were a good football team before Coach Boone came on the scene; they had 15 winning seasons in a row, and had won a regional championship in Virginia. But Coach Boone established high goals for the team hoping to transform this group divided by racial tension, into a cohesive state championship team. The director, Boaz Yakin, uses the competitive nature found in sports to engage the characters in relationships and conflicts.

Although the hiring of an African American coach in a historically all-white school was symbolic, the scene with the most effective symbolism came when Gary, the leader of the white players, and Julius, the leader of the black players, acknowledged each other as valued teammates while the team was away on camp. The famous “left side, strong side” scene from the movie was the epitome of unity and broken racial boundaries by the team. It was after that moment, that the white players acknowledged African Americans as equals on the football field, and personal bonds began to grow among the team.

In the movie “Remember the Titans”; directed by Boaz Yakin, one of the main characters, Gerry Bertier is injured in a car crash. Following the accident the football team goes to see him in the hospital. The Scene begins as Julius Campbell enters the hospital to see Gerry. This scene shows the audience how far Gerry and Julius’ relationship has developed since the beginning of the film. The scene also highlights the themes of racism as Gerry and Julius have been able to set aside their differences like skin colour and form a bond over their mutual passion of football.

The movie that I have chosen is Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin, starring Denzel Washington, Kate Bosworth, Donald Faison, Ryan Gosling, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Will Patton, and Ethan Suplee. The film is based on the story of the forced integration of Virginia’s T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. The story encompasses the fight for peace and racial equality in a community that actively rejects it through the spirit of the school’s football team. The two reviews that I will be analyzing are from Entertainment Weekly (EW), entitled “Remember the Titans”, reviewed by Owen Gleiberman, published on September 27, 2000. The second review is from The New York Times, titled “How the Goal Line Came To Replace the Color Line”, reviewed by A. O. Scott, published on September 29, 2000.

In the movies “Desert flower” and “Remember the Titans”, you meet people with different culture and background. The movies show themes like how different culture is, segregation and how the society is to changes. “Remember the Titans” is a movie where you see how hatred of another race becomes a brothership. The first subject of this text will be segregation. The segregation against black and white people in the USA, where a big problem and a school wanted to have both black and white students.

At the beginning of the film when they first announce that the team will be a mixture of two races, the race includes of African-Americans and White-Americans. The friendship of Julius and Gerry starts off poor, due to the time period of racism and the hatred of Blacks. However when the team that was transferred to camp in another college for training and development purposes, that is where Coach Boone applies different additional rules for the team to get along as a team and as a person, which made a huge difference in friendship between the two races of black and whites players, which changed the team completely to work together as a team and get victory in every game. The friendship of Julius and Gerry changed when Coach Boone took the team through the woods to show the cemetery and explained what happened, which inspired and changed the player’s thinking and the way they see the blacks. Gerry and Julius learned to respect each other and other black player and people outside the

The reason why I added this in is ,because it shows how much they hate each other but then it shows bonding towards the end. This movie shows how two raices come together not only on the field but also in the town to show how much can change from hate to bonding. This only happened because of the law where schools can’t segregate them and also to see if they could make it through the year together. Around 1970’s is when segregation started going down because of all the new laws and new rules especially in school. Also when they started letting colleges and high schools combine moat of the kids thought they didn’t need another until they either quit or started working together like in “Remember the Titans.” Today we aren’t as bad but this still happens at school all the time in or out of sports you’ld think we’ve learned by now but it’s not a perfect world. You can watch Remember the Titans on ITunes,Youtube,Amazon,and VUDU either renting or buying the

Each coach or facilitating leader in each of the films establish ground rules. Schwarz lists ground rules for effective groups a: “test assumptions and inferences, share relevant information, use specific examples and agree on what important words mean, Explain your reasoning and intent, focus on interests, not positions, combine advocacy and inquiry, jointly design next steps and ways to test disagreements, discuss undiscussable issues, and use a decision-making rule that generates the level of commitment needed” (GROUND RULES, p. 2). While the leaders in the films don’t list each of these by number, they focus on the key rules that will help their team succeed. The biggest rule that the films focused on was the emphasis on interests, not positions. Each of the leaders within the teams had to redirect the focus of the group to their end goal and not how they felt about each other to get there.