Sam Rall Remember the Titans Remember the Titans is a film set in Alexandria, Virginia during the year 1971. Directed by Boaz Yakin the film follows a school, T. C. Williams that was the first to be racially integrated. This caused a great deal of conflict between the races, and the film depicts how a football team can bring together two races and create the unity that is displayed later. The film tackles themes such as both inter and intra racial racism as well as the way a town can come together. Yakin uses techniques such as camera angles, dialogue, music, and relationships to create a strong emotional tie between the viewers and the film.
These three components work together to construct both positive and negative attitudes and also change existing attitudes. For example; at the beginning of the film there was no racial mixing – the blacks and whites were completely separate until the merger of the two schools. In consequence of the merger the African American students and their families were subject to protests, discrimination and snide comments such as “your people” and “black animals”. This situation in particular showed the negative attitudes and superiority held/formed towards the black people, even so as the film proceeded both the white and black football players learnt to work together and gradually built friendships, therefore changing their attitudes towards each other from negative to positive. Discrimination is shown in many forms throughout this film.
In brief, the film is about a Virginia high school in the 1970’s that is forced to admit black students, with a focus on the school’s football team. Denzel Washington plays Coach Herman Boone, the new black football coach, which causes a fury among white parents and students. At the school’s football camp, tension builds between the white and black players, but through Coach Boone’s leadership, the team comes together, and slowly unites the entire community. Prior to football training camp, both the black and white students came with a prejudice and stereotype of the other race, causing much discrimination, as well as verbal and physical conflicts be [pic] |
It was a volatile situation at first, with constant tension and frequent verbal and physical fights. The coaches (one black and one white) insisted that the team would fail unless they became unified. Similarly, the book discussed the way that businesses will fail unless those from different backgrounds learn to embrace their diversity and participate effectively with one another. To breed unity, the coaches made the players sit on the bus with and room with a member of the opposite race. They also threatened four practices a day unless each teammate learned a significant amount about their roommate’s family, background, etc.
In the beginning of the movie Remember the Titans, the leadership style that Coach Boone portrayed was an authoritarian leadership. This leadership style was shown at many points in the movie, including just before the pre-season training camp (when the team gets on the bus), and at the pre-season training camp. As the football season progressed, Coach Boone’s leadership style changed. At the beginning of the season, he was an authoritarian leader, but as the season progressed, and the team got closer, he slowly became a laissez-faire leader. This leadership style was shown by Coach Boone in the last few games in the movie.
All of his dreams were shattered and he was trying to cope with just being an everyday person without known fame The Playoff game was based on racism. It was sad that after they had the coin toss that it had to be in a neutral place because they were scared of what the Carter Cowboys fans were gone do since the Permian Panthers were predominately white. The next year Coach Gaines led the undefeated Permian Panthers to the state playoff. He had won is confidence back from the
Along with the laws comes outrage from the white families of Alexandria; especially after the implementation of a law that combined the white school and the black school into one. There is a coaching change on the football team that comes along with the school change; a new African American coach, Coach Boones, is given the head coach job at the new school instead of the Hall of Fame coach, Coach Yoast, that is currently there. There is much indignation about this seemingly unfair change that takes
In his view, the white race in general was guilty for the suppression and sufferings of the black race. Because of the cultural aggression and degradation that blacks suffered for hundreds of years, Malcolm X claimed that black liberation starts with self appreciation. His goal was that the blacks learn more about themselves, their culture and
Brittney Smith Dr. Fullman English Comp. 1 9/21/15 “In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it’s bigger than Christmas day.” This is a quote from my favorite movie “Remember the Titans.” It takes place in nineteen seventy one and it’s severely segregated in Alexandria, Virginia; and TC Williams High School is now being integrated. To make matters worse, the new head coach is a black man, something that the town frowns upon; and the team is full of resentful players, both black and white. The team mates do not like each other and neither do any of the people in the town or school, which brings a greater division on the field. In the midst of the hate and change, the players are all stationed at a football camp that is meant to bring them together
I can relate to him because he is a white male and I am a white male. He is a high school football coach and that is what I want to do, coach high school football. In the movie he is a guy who lives with his daughter and it is just them two. For a lot of the movie, he thinks that is enough and all he needs. Then he realizes that times are changing and he needs to change with them and he does.