In the early 1970s two school from Alexandria, Virginia integrate forming T.C Williams High school. Head coach of the Titans was replaced by an African Coach form North Carolina. Tensions arise when the players from the different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of the tensions eased during the two week training camp in Gettysburg. When the players returned to Alexandria finding the city in turmoil due to the forced desegregation of the high school. As the season progresses the team success caused the community to accept the changes. During the film many camera shots, high angle shots was effective because it showed the Titans as a tight, cohesive team. The empty space in the gym reinforces the idea that they have come …show more content…
Over the shoulder shot and Long shot this shot helps us see that even more Cleary, the long shot is used because it shows them surrounding the scene as well what is happening with Boone, Gerry and Ray. The over the shoulder shot less u see that at this even the perspective of the white crowd of people and it looks like u are essentially one of them in this shots. The long shot is a good choice when it serve two purposes. It establishes the audience where this scene is taking place (Gettysburg Collage) but is also shows us the physical distance between Ray and Petey, this way we see Petey’s reactions and body language response to ray’s …show more content…
They had fallen into the position because of their athleticism, personal convictions and needing to protect their “brother” Gerry became the team leader by learning to set aside his prejudice also the focus on the team regardless of the colour. The relationship between the Bertier and Campbell lead way for most of team to come together. The movie starts with riot after a white storeowner kills a black teenager, this incident which underscores the racial tensions that exist as a result of the desegregation of the high school. Boone had to overcome the racism within the team coaching staff and the community to build a winning racially mixed football
The movie Remember the Titans takes place at a newly integrated high school in Alexandria, Virginia circa 1971. When two schools integrate, their football teams, coaches included, do as well. Because of social differences driven by racial issues, the players do not agree with the change; consequently, the Titans suffer as a team. One of the coaches, Herman Boone, sees this as a major problem, so he takes the entire team out for a run at 3 a.m. to the nearby historic battlefield of Gettysburg. Coach Boone desperately wants the boys to get along, so he puts all of his efforts toward making the boys successfully play football as a team. When they arrive at Gettysburg, Coach Boone speaks about the men who fought the war of racism here; arguing
This film deals with racial profiling in so many ways, for example as soon as Rodrick Rhoads became coach, the other teams were making fun of cordia and calling them the N word due the fact that they were winning games because they had a former nba basketball coach. After cordia high school had won the championship game the other teams and
In Alexandria 1971, high school football was a way of life, for everyone. So when a local school board was forced to integrate an all black school with an all white school, the foundation that football was set on would be put to the test. During this film, many of the characters face moral issues and dilemmas that change the way that they will see things forever. One of those characters includes Gerry Bertier who struggles to befriend his African American teammate, he also struggles to accept what is going on around him. Those are some of the biggest obstacles for a teenager from that time to face, most white families taught their children that the African Americans were trouble, to not go near them that they were animals. And consequently, to not disrespect their families they stayed away, believing everything that their parents had said, creating a disrespectful stereotype of African-American citizens.
Remembering the Titans is an inspiring and uplifting movie about two races coming together and being unified, through football. In the 1970s, segregation was fought, and schools formed that contained both whites and blacks. Through the process of an all-white and all-black school coming together, much tension set in and this is no different when it came to the football team. Coach Yoast, the coach of the all-white football team, is replaced by Coach Boone. Coach Boone is an African American coach that has a leading reputation in football and a demanding attitude. Even while receiving numerous other coaching opportunities, Coach Yoast decides to serve as an assistant coach under Coach Boone.
Remember the Titans is a film based on the true story of Virginia High School football team working to come together during desegregation in the 1970s. Herman Boone, a black head coach, is hired to lead the T.C Williams High School Football Team. The team formerly led by a white coach, Bill Yoast, is better known by their nickname, The Titans. Both Boone and Yoast must work together to bring their white and black players together in a time where segregation across racial lines in the south was commonly accepted. Boone and Yoast are successful in doing this during the team’s training camp, only to return to find that bringing the team together would be only one of the challenges they faced. We see both coaches work together and lead the team to an undefeated season that helped unite the town and overcome its own racial strife.
The movie “Remember the Titans” premiered September 2000, and takes place in Alexandrea, Virginia. High school football in Alexandrea is known as a way of life, they say it’s even more important than Christmas morning. It was in 1941 that black and whites began redistricting and had to attend school together. The city was in outrage after a black teenager had been killed that summer. When Coach Herman Boone, a black coach, is titled the new head coach after the schools integrate, the past white head coach, Bill Yoast and him are forced to work together and try to lead their team to victory. As the school year is about to begin, the football team is off to their training camp. Coach Boone groups the men into their various positions, requiring
In the 1970s, Americans and African Americans conjoined to the same school, T.C Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Football Coach Yoast was fired and replaced by Coach Herman Boone. Tension rises as white players didn’t want to be coached by a black person. The football team ended up going to training camp in Westbury, Pennsylvania. At first they hated each other, but Coach Boone made them have respect for one another and get to know each other. By the end of training camp, the team grew closer together. T.C Williams went on a undefeated season then won regional and state championship. The characters in Remember the Titans are Denzel Washington as Coach
Throughout the film we, see both the coach, individual players, and the team as a whole face numerous psychological obstacles which they overcome to reach the final. The film is based highly around racism and racial divides within basketball. Throughout the film we can see a constant battle with the idea of Perception, and how both player and overcome this. In order to form the 1966 championship winning team,
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
Good morning fellow peers and Mr Harrop. To day I will be discussing the moral issues and moral dilemmas in the film Remember The Titans, released in 2001, directed by Boaz Yakin. During this film a winning virginia state high school all white team, the titans, is forced to play alongside an all black team coming from an outside high school. This film is based around the moral issues and dilemmas of a heavily racist all white team having to merge with a team of all black team members. This causes a riot within the school and alongside this is uprooted by the parents of the boys. The Head coach, Bill yoast portrayed by Will Patton, is pushed down to assistant coach in order to allow a black coach to be positioned as the head coach, Herman Boone portrayed by Denzel Washington. I will be discussing the way the director has used language features, camera angles, and visual techniques in order to depicts the struggles that come from all perspectives during the film.
team unties and wins the State championship at the end of the movie. With relation to the
This transition was triggered in such an unexpected situation. The producers of this movie emphasized the fact that racism can occur anywhere, even at a high school football game. Football usually entails slight hate speech towards the other team. However, it is usually only out of good fun. The loving Tuohy family sat in the stands with bated breath and angst to defend Michael.
Overtime, the players learned to establish life-long friendships, not to judge a book by its cover, and to learn from each other. The main idea of the film is to show the extreme prejudices are made about a whole group of people before one even gets to know a person from this group. This idea about prejudices is coupled with the idea that through keeping an open mind and finding commonalities, one might discover that this group of people is more similar to him/herself than they thought. This relates to what we studied during the Civil Rights Movement and specifically the Supreme Court Case, Brown vs. The Board of Education. Over the
The movie released on the 25th of January 2000, goes back in time to 1971 Alexander, Virginia, where schools were segregated for decades. That year however, was the year in which 2 schools were shut down, which resulted in the African-Americans and European-Americans to integrate at TC Williams High School. In the hope of stopping the protests, Bill Yost – The European-American coach is sacked and replaced by Herman Boone – The African-American coach. Yost then accepts the job as assistant coach, offered by Boone. As the coaches of the team, they push their players, and teach them to embrace and accepts each other’s differences. Their journey to success however, is
I have watched this movie countless times before but this time when I watched it was different than before. I always knew it was obviously a movie about racism, but I never picked up on tiny parts of the dialogue and certain scenes stood out as much more significant to me than they have in the past. For example, at one point in the movie a brick is thrown through Coach Boone’s window while his daughter and Sheryl Yoast are playing in the living room. The next day, Coach Yoast is angry about what happened. He accuses Coach Boone for it being his fault that the brick was thrown through his window because of his “sins”. Coach Boone is very offended by this and points out that he did not do anything to deserve it and also that maybe now Sheryl has an idea of what his daughters go through every day of their lives.