Image from Film Year 11 Visual Text Study – Remember the Titans Close Analysis of Opening Scene Visual Language • Establishing shot of a graveyard – an angelic gravestone is in the foreground • Warm‚ natural lighting during the autumn • Sheryl Yoast (adult) voice-‐over “In Virginia‚ High School Football
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An analysis of the movie “Remember the Titans” This paper will analyze the sociological issues that are brought up in the movie “Remember the Titans.” Based on a true story‚ this movie encompasses many of the issues that were dominating in our society in the past. Although a majority of the issues have been overcome‚ it is still seen in some instances today. Before exploring these issues‚ it is important to develop an understanding of the movie. The movie begins with an African American head football
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I remember when I first went to go take an interview for a job. To start‚ it was my first time and I was very nervous. I would stutter my words when I talked. My hands were getting really sweaty. Most importantly‚ I couldn’t make eye contact with the person that was interviewing me. Instead‚ I let my eyes wander all over the place. Another reason that my first interview was so memorable is because besides doing a bad job in the interview‚ I got the job. At the end of my interview‚ I was given a schedule
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‘Remember the Titans’ ‘I was afraid of you‚ Julius. I don’t see what I was afraid of. Now I see I was only hating my brother’. This quote Gerry made towards Julius‚ illustrates how the characters in the movie were afraid of change‚ and that it is possible to overcome that fear. This quote is important‚ especially in the movie‚ because it sets an example that change is necessary and possible. The characters in ‘Remember the Titans’ are forced to face many issues that revolve around change and
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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
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A day I will always remember is the first day of middle school‚ which was the first day of 6th grade. I was nervous and didn’t know what to expect‚ but I was also very excited at the same time. Everything was so new to me‚ the campus‚ the schedule‚ and the people. But the first day of middle school will always be a day I will remember. It was the first day of the 6th Grade and I was very anxious. I had been waiting for that day all summer. It all started when I got of the school bus. The
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Remember the Titans Louie Lastic is one of the more significantly inspirational characters‚ as he does not care from the start about race and skin colour. “Why don’t you sit with your people?” “What are you talking about‚ man‚ I have no people.” - Julius and Louie discussing over lunch. He openly converses with them‚ while the others seperate themselves from either skin colour because of all the racial disagreements that went on in that particular time‚ the 1970’s. Coach Boone and Coach Yoast
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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
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Remember The Titans 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. Boone and Yoast are the two main coaches in Remember the Titans. Boone is the new african-american coach and
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The video "Remember the Titans" identifies some major problems involving racism in the 1970’s. In Alexandria‚ Virginia the schools have just begun integration‚ and it has left the city in an uproar. Coach Yoast is talking to his players about the soon to be integrated team. His defensive captain Gary Bertier says that he isn’t going to play football with those animals‚ especially after he learns that Coach Boone is taking over the position of head coach. After some minor conflict between the new
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