Preview

Remember the Titans

Better Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1421 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Remember the Titans
Summary
"Remember the Titans," directed by Boaz Yakin, is an American drama film which focused on the major social problem of racism. Every scene in the movie displayed racism and showed how it affects everyone. Based on a true story, "Remember the Titans" is a movie about events which occurred in 1971 and focuses on the racial attitudes and tensions of the football team at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. During 1971, federal laws were passed that required schools to desegregate within the South. These federal laws forced T.C. Williams High School, a white only school, to allow African Americans to attend school there.
Racism
At the beginning of the movie, we see the community of Alexandria in an uproar due to a young African American being killed by a white person. African Americans and whites surrounded the shop where the young teenager was killed to protest his death. They are all screaming, shouting, and throwing stuff at one another while the cops try to keep the two ethnic groups separated. The owner of the shop was outraged and began loading his gun to deal with the problem, until he was stopped by a cop. The white football players heard about the uproar and gathered up crowbars and chains to go down to the shop, until Coach Yoast (their white coach) stopped them. He took them back to the school, were Gerry (the white captain of the football team) stated he wanted all the blacks kicked off the team because he did not want to play with those "black animals." I personally found this very degrading to refer to Africans Americans as being no better than animals. This statement shows the audience how African Americans were inferior to whites during this period.
All the other teams within the system where composed of all white players and headed by white coaches. The school board offered Coach Boone the head coaching position at T.C. Williams High School due to the black color of his skin. He felt uncomfortable about this



Cited: Yakin, Boaz, dir. Remember the Titans. Walt Disney Pictures 2000.

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Throughout the film it depicts blacks in a submissive position to which they are abusing their powers, such as the scene of the state legislature portraying black legislature are drunken pigs who’s only interest is intermarriage, every white persons nightmare. It’s a foreshadow of what the nation would be like if blacks were granted positions in…

    • 323 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    racism were very much present in the American society. The film tells the story of a…

    • 607 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Remember the titans (E.J)

    • 515 Words
    • 3 Pages

    At the end of the movie most of the town becomes excepting on blacks and whites playing football together and hanging…

    • 515 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the film Remember the Titans, a small town in Alexandria, Virginia integrates its schools in the 1970s. Challenges arose including academics, hope, and racism, but the the football team united the town and revived their innocence because the townspeople had something to hope for and put all of their energies into. The weekly football games were also a place to forget about all of life’s problems and believe that light will shine through. When attending these football games, all problems seemed to have disappeared. Many southern towns create a lifestyle revolving around high school football that revives hope, and hides all of the town’s dirty secrets. H.G. Bissinger followed up in the blue collar, Protestant, republican town of Odessa, Texas…

    • 262 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Remember The Titans, the whites in America are the dominant race. As mentioned above, at the beginning of the film, TC Williams high school is an all white school until the blacks are newly immigrated into the high school. The football team, specifically, was dominated by white players and coaches. However, when the african american Coach Boone is transferred to T. C. from North Carolina to help coach, things seem to change drastically for the team and the town. To the african american community, Coach Boone is seen as as a voice for not only african american athletes searching for their opportunity to play football for the team, but for the african american’s across the community. On the other hand, when Coach Boone is hired as head coach…

    • 275 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The film takes place during the era of segregation and racial discrimination in our country, specifically in Virginia. The town is under extreme chaos after a young black man is killed by a white store owner. The whites and blacks are recently immigrated at T. C. Williams High School, and the film focuses on the school’s football team. In general, the…

    • 953 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Remember the Titans

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations, in sight of the Washington Monument over the river in the nation's capital. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is perceived through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over the highly successful white coach. Based on the actual events of 1971, the team becomes the unifying symbol for the community as the boys and the adults learn to depend on and trust each other. Remember the Titians was based on a true story of the major events that took place in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971 when African-American football coach Herman Boone was hired to guide an integrated, but racially split with the high school team T.C. Williams Titans. Angry, stubborn and a stiff employer, Boone faces a casual reception from the team's players as well as an awkward relationship with assistant coach Bill Yoast, a local white man with advantage and a tradition of winning who was bypassed for the job. It is clearly established that Bill has feelings of revulsion for having to be an assistant under a black man. As the two men learn to overcome their ignorance, they realize that they have much in common like integrity, honor, and a strong work ethic. They work together to transform an angry group of unfocused players into a dynamic winning team of responsible young men. Throughout the process, they managed to show their individuality from a divided community and ensure that Virginia will always “Remember the Titans.”…

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Friday Night Lights

    • 698 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Race influences the attitudes of Odessa’s high-school athletes, coaches, teachers, parents, and fans as they believe the black players have to focus on football as that is all they have.…

    • 698 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Remember the Titans

    • 883 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In the movie "Remember the Titans," there were major racial difficulties between black and white students. This was during a time when the school had just been integrated to allow blacks into the school and the high school football team. These challenges helped the Titans grow as a team and made them more co-operative and successful. The difficulties of a multiracial team were overcome with the assistance of democratic and authoritarian coaching styles, motivational skills, self-fulfilling prophecy, and the perception of the athletes and coaches. Because of these actions, the Titans were able to defeat the challenges they were faced with as a team and come out superior.…

    • 883 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Remember the Titans

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The theme of this movie is that we should treat everyone with equal respect, regardless of their skin color or race, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, or religion. We should accept everyone for who they are, rather than trying to change them. It also shows the integration of a racist America into a culturally accepting society with the help of a teacher/coach.…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The movie demonstrates the segregation between the black and the white population, the struggle between the two sides to obtain a shared happiness, as well as illustrating how each side was criticised for it.…

    • 1010 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    remember the titans

    • 723 Words
    • 3 Pages

    I began watching the documentary called a class divided that filmed Jane Elliot as a school teacher in the 80’s teaching a third grade class race and ethnicity issues. It deals with discrimination and documents these kids being divided and discriminated against based on their eye color. These kids rotated days being inferior and lesser of the two based on the color of their eyes and were forced to wear a collar type cloth around their neck and received less time for recess or were not being able to use the playground at all. When the blue eyed kids were told they were smarter and better a boy took advantage of it and he teased the other kids calling them brown eyed and discriminating against them. When just the day before the kid was brown eyed and it wasn’t a problem but once brought to attention it became a bigger insult. The next day the blue eyed kid didn’t wear his glasses to show his dominant blue eyes but that day it was reversed and blue eyes were seen as lesser. They didn’t like these roles being reversed and a few kids just put their heads. So I’m assuming when they were out on recess it was different because the kids would tease the other kids but once it got turned on them they changed attitudes. It was a good way to show how discrimination works being told you were inferior or not as smart overall based on something you had no choice in being born with. I think this video would be informative and entertaining for a class to watch but more so to engage in an…

    • 723 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Remember the Titans

    • 332 Words
    • 2 Pages

    There is no doubt that Remember the Titans is chalked full of moments of triumph and despair. Coach Boone is constantly a source of leadership for his players and eventually the entire community. There are many times when power come into play both on and off the field. Some examples of this power that is demonstrated in the movie are referent power, coercive power, need for power (both personalized and socialized), legitimate power and reward power. These leadership concepts are constant through the movie as well as in specific clips.…

    • 332 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Essay On The Movie Selma

    • 644 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The movie started off with the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing, which resulted in the murder of 4 innocent young girls, and later on in the film a young black man by the name of Jimmily Jackson was murdered by a state trooper for being in a non-violent protest and he didn't fight back. All these murders happening left and right all out of hate because the of the pigment of someone's skin, because in the sick minds of some people being a shade darker than someone meant that they aren't…

    • 644 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the past, there were direct discrimination toward African Americans such as police brutality and racial stereotype about African Americans. Policemen stopped the marching violently when they knew that those African Americans are protesting the rights they always deserve. People produced songs with lyrics like “if you are white, you are fine; if you are black, go back, go back”, and they published cartoons that had African Americans been drew in an ugly and terrifying way. Those are the dues African Americans have to pay, and they suffered all these terrible acts of the white people in order to survive in the United States. This film uses the unavoidable facts about the discriminations African Americans suffered to emphasize the big ideas that African Americans have done a lot of effort to gain their freedom should always be memorable by the people of the world. Nobody should ever deny African Americans’ suffering because those are part of the U.S…

    • 829 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays