Movie Analysis: Remember The Titans

Has one ever heard the saying “Attitude reflects leadership, captain”. This quote originally came from the movie “Remember the Titans”. The movie was based on a true story about a town that loved football and was the most prejudiced town in the 1970’s. The movie took place in a hometown called Alexandria, located in Virginia, where schools were both forced to integrate with an all-white school and with an all and black school together. Denzel Washington, does an amazing job being there for the football players and through the movie. The main themes of the movie are overcoming racism, friendship, team bonding, and overcoming adversity between the black and white communities. A few psychology concepts or terms I would like to voice is the operant conditioning, modeling, scapegoat theory, social learning theory, and obedience. I’m going to voice
The scapegoat theory falls in the social interaction: prejudice and discrimination branch. A scapegoat theory is a person or group, typically a member or members of an out-group, who serves as a target for the frustrations and negative emotions of members of the in-group. The whole film was based on the scapegoat theory. Reason being is during the era of the 1970’s white people disliked black people because of their different race. The white folks blamed everything on the black people and because of this disturbance always broke out. Hence, the white folks decided to treat the African American people with hate because of their skin color. An example of the scapegoat theory would the scene of the first day of school for the teens. White people are standing outside the school protesting against the black community because the school district decided to integrate the all black school with the all-white school into one school. This made the white folks furious, so it leads them to protesting. This explains how the scapegoat theory was displayed in the