Racial Barriers In The Film Remember The Titan's

In the movie "Remember the Titans" there are many lessons that every person should learn in their life. One of the most important lessons is that of racism. In this day and age some people believe that racism is over because there are no longer any slaves, some people believe that there is still racism but that it is ok. I believe that those people would benefit a great deal from seeing this movie. I know that there is still racism, I also know that it is not ok.

Titans are a part of Greek mythology and were greater than the gods but to me, the Titans are a football team. And not just any football team, my hometown football team. Remember the Titans is a movie proclaimed as one of the greatest football films in history, next to that of The Blind Side and Rudy. This football movie has a special place in my heart that is more than just one hundred twenty yards, a touchdown and a field goal combined. Remember the Titans is based on the true story of T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia where the black and white schools were combined into one. Although some racial tension was exaggerated in the movie, it still shows the football team’s efforts to overcome blatant differences towards a common

The movie “Remember the Titans” premiered September 2000, and takes place in Alexandrea, Virginia. High school football in Alexandrea is known as a way of life, they say it’s even more important than Christmas morning. It was in 1941 that black and whites began redistricting and had to attend school together. The city was in outrage after a black teenager had been killed that summer. When Coach Herman Boone, a black coach, is titled the new head coach after the schools integrate, the past white head coach, Bill Yoast and him are forced to work together and try to lead their team to victory. As the school year is about to begin, the football team is off to their training camp. Coach Boone groups the men into their various positions, requiring

Remember the Titans, is a film that is about a predominantly white culture in an era that is predominantly white dominated over blacks. In the film, the school makes a very bold movement of combining both black colored students and white colored students so that they attend the same school. In addition, the school also demotes their successful white football coach to instead a black football coach, something that had never been done before.

Remember the Titans is a classic movie about one African American-populated high school and one Caucasian-populated high school who are forced to integrate into one school/football team in a suburban town in Virginia in 1971. Neither races are obliging to this rash decision being enforced but there was nothing to be done about it. The 70’s were a very difficult time to be a minority especially for African Americans, which is what led to many problems and struggles not only throughout the school, but specifically within the football team. During this time of hatred and segregation, one football team at T.C. Williams High School goes through the struggle of working together with teammates belonging to a different race. Through all of the hardships taken place in the film, the team gradually learns to not define one another because of skin color.

Remember the Titans is a film from 2000 displaying a true story of a racially divided football team from the 1970s. The movie highlights the relationships of the black and white people, and how they learned to interact with each other in a time when this was not the way of life. It brings up a number of questions throughout, of what is right and what is wrong, and really challenges the characters, making it a very interesting movie to watch. I have seen this movie many times, and each time I feel like I get something new out of it. It is a movie that can be used as a teaching tool, it does a great job of interpreting not only what was happening in the United States of America at that time, but social psychology concepts through real life

Remembering the Titans is an inspiring and uplifting movie about two races coming together and being unified, through football. In the 1970s, segregation was fought, and schools formed that contained both whites and blacks. Through the process of an all-white and all-black school coming together, much tension set in and this is no different when it came to the football team. Coach Yoast, the coach of the all-white football team, is replaced by Coach Boone. Coach Boone is an African American coach that has a leading reputation in football and a demanding attitude. Even while receiving numerous other coaching opportunities, Coach Yoast decides to serve as an assistant coach under Coach Boone.

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn to hate,” (Mandela 1). Nelson Mandela greatly describes that racism isn’t something natural, and that people get it from learning from other people. Racism comes from the evil within one’s self and it spreads like a virus to others, eventually sometimes affecting the whole society. Something that can hurt many people is the cruel hatred towards a specific group that often goes along with racism. Sometimes racism make’s people see you in a very different way, it can affect where you fall in society as well as what opportunities you have in life, and it can even go as far as changing the

Remember the Titans is a film based on the true story of Virginia High School football team working to come together during desegregation in the 1970s. Herman Boone, a black head coach, is hired to lead the T.C Williams High School Football Team. The team formerly led by a white coach, Bill Yoast, is better known by their nickname, The Titans. Both Boone and Yoast must work together to bring their white and black players together in a time where segregation across racial lines in the south was commonly accepted. Boone and Yoast are successful in doing this during the team’s training camp, only to return to find that bringing the team together would be only one of the challenges they faced. We see both coaches work together and lead the team to an undefeated season that helped unite the town and overcome its own racial strife.

Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell are the unofficial leaders of the white and black teams respectively. They fall into this position because of their athleticism, personal convictions, and need to protect their “brothers”. Gerry Bertier ultimately becomes team leader by learning to set aside his prejudice and focus on the team regardless of color. The relationship that develops between Bertier and Campbell lead the way for most of the team to come together.

The movie Remember the Titans directed by Boaz Yakin is based on the racial and social tensions of the South. Alexandria, Virginia. This community was torn apart by racial conflicts, when it was ordered to combine their public schools. Cautiously, the school board replaces the popular white coach, Bill Yoast (Will Patton), with Herman Boone (Denzel Washington), a creditable black coach, as head coach of the T.C Williams Titans Football team. Boone, after the coaching switch up, invites Yoast to come back and join the team while being the new coach of the defensive line. Yoast accepts and together they inspire, not just a team, but the whole town to stop and “trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him”. This paper will cover a critical time in American history, when a 1971 Supreme Court mandate required southern school districts to finally end segregation. The drive to put white and African American children in the same educational classrooms was the most vital and potentially pervasive aspect of the civil-right movement. Based on actual events that happened during that time, the movie Remember the Titans shows it’s audience how to deal with the issue of racism and illustrates how one can overcome prejudice by uniting for a common cause or goal. This movie and essay will not only provide an impacting lesson of racism, but will also teach and provide examples of trust, loyalty, unity, and integrity.

Remember The Titans is about a school playing football and they don’t know how to get along with the other skin color. Coach Boones comes in and whips them into shape and teaches them on how to play together as one as a team. Teamwork doesn’t work in one place, teamwork is everywhere you go. It is the main key in everything and even in the smallest things.

The film "Remember the Titans" released in 2000, and directed by Boaz Yakin, is a movie set in 1971, about an American football team going through the changes of getting a new coloured coach and coloured members. The film shows how the team manages to overcome race and how racism was treated throughout the 1970's. In this film, Louie Lastick is a bubbly and cheerful white teenager, however, he thinks he is a failure in his life. Louie Lastick creates a bond with everyone including the coloured members, as he shows acceptance throughout the film. He accepted Coach Boone talking over, In the cafeteria, he places himself between the coloured members, and joins in the "yo mamma" jokes in the change

The movie Remember the Titans centered around differences. The theme is differences can be good and bad, but being able to overcome these differences is what makes a terrific person. This is the theme of the movie because throughout the whole movie the conflict was always the differences between people and that difference was the color of their skin. In the movie the school became integrated which caused some riot. That riot came from the differences that each person had, people split off into the whites and the black. They did not mix, but when they did it was always trouble. There was rock throwing on the first day and there were fights in between black and white people. Once the team came together at a camp away from all of the craziness

In the camp, the white and black players were hostile to each other. Coach Boone made them sit together in the bus and even had each of them having a roommate of a different race. He wanted them to