Remember The Titans Essay

Remember The Titans

Remember the Titans is a movie acted in 1970's and directed by Boaz Yakin in the city of Alexandria. It involves two football teams that were forced to amalgamate (Yakin). The film gives a significant life lesson for the teenagers that they can put away their differences to build a prosperous community. My father and me watched this movie more than five times. The film covers themes such as racism, friendship, and leadership styles. Racism and hatred in society are the backgrounds of conflicts in the movie making it hard for a coach to succeed without taking risks as an active leader. Leadership skills are essential to the team's success. A leader defines and structures their roles and the roles of their subordinates' towards accomplishing a task. In the movie, the coach and the team captain works together motivate the team players towards the success of the team (Yakin). Will Patton plays Coach Yoast, a winning coach who encourages the team players to do their best. On the other hand, Coach Boone (played by Denzel Washington) is a polite, tactful and respectful leader. He makes clear his main agenda is winning football competitions. Team captain Gerry, is a leader who had set aside his prejudice and focused on the team...show more content...

The whites and the blacks supporting their races, and they do not even bother to know the reason for the issue. Coach Boone knows that an African American coach is not welcome when he first meets the Titan staff. They push him, but he does not push back (Yakin). Black students are discriminated, called abusive names and referred to as animals. Another example of racism is at a restaurant where a manager could not let Sunshine and her friends have a meal there because they are blacks. The Titans succeed. The coaches did their best to help the students bond together to face a world that is totally against them. A leader helps in time of crisis, relieves oneself opportunity for change, solve problems and build

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...show more content...

This team actually started becoming a team after Coach Boone gave an inspiring speech at the graveyard in Gettysburg. That is when a team actually started to form. The speech was about the Civil War that happened at Gettysburg. He told the players to hear closely, because if they do, they can hear people saying things about killing their own brothers. He told the players that they have to stop fighting with one another and start thinking of each other as brothers and come together as a team and start seeing life in a different perspective. After that, they had plenty of practices and worked hard until they learned how to get along, and they finally did that. It was beautiful to watch them get along and become a team. They were becoming friends and would joke with one another in the locker rooms. Mostly everyone get along. Julius and Gary were becoming great friends, which was hard to believe, because they hated each other at first. Later on, they got a new player. He had long hair, and they called him "Sunshine". He was a quarterback and was the newest player on the mighty Titans. The team thought he was gay but he really wasn't. The team was ready to come back home after all the hard practices at camp. The town still didn't accept the fact that these two races were going to play on the same team. The parents of some of the players didn't like it, and the town didn't like it. On top of that, Coach Boone had to win every game. If Get more content

Remember The Titans Essay In the movie "Remember the Titans" by "Boaz Yakin" the character Herman Boone, played by "Denzel Washington", is faced by a difficult challenge that is significantly important to the movie. Boone in a sense faces a challenge of acceptance in which, by the end of the movie, he has experienced in two noticeable ways. Boone faces the challenge of being accepted by the community, revealing to us that he wants the community working together rather than judging and persecuting one another. Additionally Boone fights for the acceptance and respect of his team, The Titans, proving to them that they can indeed "make this race thing work". Boone faces the challenge of being accepted by the community, encouraging them...show more content...

There are avid examples of the work he does with the football team to illustrate these principal ideas. When the members of the football team all prepared to leave for camp, they boarded the two busses according to their color and clearly did not want have anything to do with each other. Coach Boone outraged by a comment from Gerry Bertier calls all the players to the front of the busses. He orders them to pair up according to their positions on the football field, accomplishing team unity and overcoming the first obstacle in getting the boys to work together. Also of interest are the responses of the player's parents when they return from camp. They are surprised to see how Coach Boone has changed them. The parents are still prejudiced however their children have changed once again illustrating that Coach Boone, although he had not yet been accepted by the community he managed to get the boys to work together. He had overcome his challenge. Boone fights for the acceptance, respect and unity of his team proving that school integration, and the black and white players can work together. By the end of the movie there are bonds formed between Bonne and both the black and white player of The Titans. These bonds are important as we as the audience understand that Boone has gained the acceptance and respect of Coach Yoasts team. In the first instance before the camp Gerry Bertier claimed that "he could not play with these animals", by the end of the movie he we could

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Remember The Titans

The movie Remember the Titans (Remember the Titans) is a film that is focused around the difficulties, and triumphs of desegregation in sports. The story takes place in T.C

Williams High School of Virgina in 1971 when Black student integration into public schools had begun. The football coachHerman Boone is also a newly hired black coach who must find a way to unite his prejudiced and separated team, and compete in the State and advanced championships. With lots of conflict, hard work, and astounding cultural discoveries, team unties and wins the State championship at the end of the movie. With relation to the film I will discuss the concept of power and social posititon among diverse peoples. I will also provide a critical self–refelxive...show more content...

The team's passion for football was also constructive to the unity of the team. As Coach Boone extended practices and demanded perfect unity, the team began to realize that previous prejudices would yield no help to their current conditions.On the other hand it was also interesting that the bond that the Titans were able to create was strengthened significantly, but became weak and diminished as peers pressured for separation. Sometimes even the greatest freindships on the football field were completely forgotten in the school hallways. My greatest take away is that true unity cannot exist until all pride is taken away, and genuine understanding is emphasized.As the group put off their pride, and sought to understand each other they were able to accomplish amazing things both on the game field, in their personal relationships, and their daily lives. I liked the plot of the movie, and the great message that it teaches. I also liked the comical scenes and relief points that keep the movie going because it makes it esier to follow along .I think it could have been better if it were more recent since it is an older film. Overall, the powerful message of success through differences was the greatest

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The movie Remember the Titans takes place in Virginia. The year was when there were no racial mixings in the schools. The movie starts practically the day that the announcement of desegregation was going to come into action. The movie is in a small Virginia town where they say that football is as big as life. The high school team is known for being great and when they here that blacks are entering their school now they are furious. The school comes in and fires the old head coach and replaces him with a black, Coach Boon. At first all of the white players try toboycott the new coach and football program but the old coach, Coach Yoast decides to stay and run the defensive line and not abandon his old boys....show more content... Even though they were very much adjusted to one another and got along so well when they got back home, nothing had changed. When they saw white teammates talking to black teammates everyone starred and no one understood. Coach Boon was not surprised to see how people were acting but he was shocked to find out that when the school gave him the head–coaching job it was because they had to and if he lost a game then he was fired. The people who hired him said that they didn't even think that he would have made it out of camp. The football teams love lived on and they stuck together for their first win. As a victory the quarterback who everyone called Sunshine tried to take a few black teammates to dinner. The owner refused service and that was the beginning of them falling apart all over again. The team calls their own meeting trying to get back together, although they are undefeated they weren't playing well and they knew that wouldn't work for long. On a major game referees were bribed to call penalties against the Titans, but Coach Yoast knew what they were doing and said he would go to the papers. Turns out they were trying to get Coach Yoast back at the head job and forget about Boon. After a major victory the team captain is involved in a major car wreck and was paralyzed from the waist down. Even though they lost a lot they went on and won the state title. The movie ends Get more content

Remember the Titans Essay

Remember the Titans 2000 Jerry Brucknerimer *STARS* Coach Boon– Denzel Washington Coach Yoast–Will Patton Julius– Wood Harris Gary Berter– Ryan Hurst The movie Remember the Titans takes place in Virginia. The year was 1971 when there were no racial mixings in the schools the previous years. The movie starts practically the day that the announcement of desegregation was going to come into action. The movie is in a small Virginia town where they say that football is as big as life. The high school team is known for being great and when they here that blacks are entering their school now known as TC Williams High they are furious. The school comes in and fires the old head coach and replaces him...show more content...

The people who hired him said that they didn't even think that he would have made it out of camp. The football teams love lived on and they stuck together for their first win. As a victory the quarterback who everyone called Sunshine tried to take a few black teammates to dinner. The owner refused service and that was the beginning of them falling apart all over again. The team calls their own meeting trying to get back together, although they are undefeated they weren't playing well and they knew that wouldn't work for long. On a major game referees were bribed to call multiple penalties against the Titans, but Coach Yoast knew what they were doing and said he would go to the papers. Turns out they were trying to get Coach Yoast back at the head job and forget about Boon. After a major victory the team captain is involved in a major car wreck and was paralyzed from the waist down. Even though they lost a lot they went on and won the state title. The movie ends at the paralyzed players funeral a few years later. They all came back for it and were reminded of the Titans. The historical significance in this movie had to have been all the segregation and what went on with the desegregation. It shows how people reacted and how cruel and judgmental they were at the time. It made me realize how much things

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