Remember The Titans Essay - 973 Words

In 1971 Coach Herman Boone replaced a popular, successful white coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in that communitys effort to finally integrate its schools. The school and community were angrily divided by the federal integration order, and the volatility of the situation was heightened by the abrupt demotion of Coach Yoast and Boones promotion to Head Coach. In this movie Coach Boone is on a mission to try to get the white and black players to unite and play together as a team. He wanted the two races to become a team. Around that time, there was a lot of racism and a lot of schools were segregated, so the players obviously didnt get along with each other at first. A lot changed when Boone replaced Yoast†¦show more content†¦This team actually started becoming a team after Coach Boone gave an inspiring speech at the graveyard in Gettysburg. That is when a team actually started to form. The speech was about the Civil War that happened at Gettysburg . He told the players to hear closely, because if they do, they can hear people saying things about killing their own brothers. He told the players that they have to stop fighting with one another and start thinking of each other as brothers and come together as a team and start seeing life in a different perspective. After that, they had plenty of practices and worked hard until they learned how to get along, and they finally did that. It was beautiful to watch them get along and become a team. They were becoming friends and would joke with one another in the locker rooms. Mostly everyone get along. Julius and Gary were becoming great friends, which was hard to believe, because they hated each other at first. Later on, they got a new player. He had long hair, and they called him Sunshine. He was a quarterback and was the newest player on the mighty Titans. The team thought he was gay but he really wasnt. The team was ready to come back home after all the hard practices at camp. The town still didnt accept the fact that these two races were going to play on the same team. The parents of some of the players didnt like it, and the town didnt like it. On top of that, Coach Boone had to win every game. IfShow MoreRelatedRemember the Titans954 Words   |  4 PagesConflict in Remember the Titans I choose the movie – remember the titans. It is an inspirational movie, making my blood boiling from the beginning to the end and teaching us that we are all equal no matter what race you are. It talks about not only the games, but also racial conflicts, friendship and the significance of life. The story goes like that: in the early 1970s, two schools in Alexandria Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. 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Lastly both coaches style of coaching willRead MoreEssay on Remember The Titans814 Words   |  4 PagesRemember The Titans Essay In the movie Remember the Titans by Boaz Yakin the character Herman Boone, played by Denzel Washington, is faced by a difficult challenge that is significantly important to the movie. Boone in a sense faces a challenge of acceptance in which, by the end of the movie, he has experienced in two noticeable ways. Boone faces the challenge of being accepted by the community, revealing to us that he wants the community working together rather than judging and persecutingRead MoreRemember the Titans Essay681 Words   |  3 PagesRemember 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 thatRead MoreRemember the Titans Essay628 Words   |  3 PagesRemember the Titans is a classic football movie filled with many obstacles. These obstacles vary from racism to dealing with death. It’s based on a true story that took place in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. What makes this movie classic is how the players and coaches were able to overcome the issue of segregation and build relationships to form a championship team. Building relationships When the school board announced there will no longer be any form of segregation in schools, the black andRead MoreRemember The Titans ( 2000 )914 Words   |  4 PagesRemember the Titans (2000) is based on the true story of the Alexandra, Virginia, football team in 1971. The movie shows the desegregation of the schools in Alexandra and specifically follows the story of their football team. The town was on edge when forced to open their schools up to other races and ethnicities besides Whites. To make matters worse, the football team was forced to replace their white, head football coach, whom was about to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, with an African AmericanRead MoreRemember The Titans ( 2000 )903 Words   |  4 PagesRemember the Titans (2000), is based on the true story of Coach Herman Boone, the football coach of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Now Coach Boone becomes the football coach around 1970, and he is promoted to be the Head Coach of the team, and he is an African-American, while the high school is newly desegregated and starting the controversial practice of â€Å"bussing† black students to the high school. 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