Remember the Titans 2000 Jerry Brucknerimer STARS Coach Boon- Denzel Washington Coach Yoast-Will Patton Julius- Wood Harris Gary Better- Ryan Hurst The movie Remember the Titans takes place in Virginia. The year was 1971 when there were no racial mixing’s 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 football is as big as life. The high school team is known for being great and when they here that blacks are entering their school now known as TC Williams High they are furious. The school comes in and fires the old head coach and replaces him with a black, Coach Boon.
At first all of the white players try to boycott the new coach and football program but the old coach, Coach Yoast decides to stay and run the defensive line and not abandon his old boys. Their first act as a team, both colors, was to attend camp together at Gettysburg College. Coach Boon has paired up one black and one white player to sit next to each other on their and also be roommates for the remainder of camp. This causes a few fights and of course dirty looks. Camp starts difficult for the boys because the more they disagree and hate the more that they have to work.
The Essay on Archetypes in High School Movies
David Denby explains the typical high school movies in detail in his article called “High-School Confidential: Notes in Teen Movies”. According to Denby, there are three character archetypes in high school movies; the popular girl, the jock, and the outsider. For some reason these movies usually take place around the time of prom, where miss popular expects to be crowned for her? ...
Coach Boon tries many remedies. One night he woke the boys up at four and made them run for miles, he took them where the Battle of Gettysburg took place and said that they needed to fight together and not against each other. After that camp was more of a breeze, they got along much better and actually worked on getting to know each other and working together. When they got back from camp the team’s families we ” re stunned to see how adjusted they were to each other. Even though they were very much adjusted to one another and got along so well when they got back home, nothing had changed. When they saw white teammates talking to black teammates everyone starred and no one understood.
Coach Boon was not surprised to see how people were acting but he was shocked to find out that when the school gave him the head-coaching job it was because they had to and if he lost a game then he was fired. The people who hired him said that they didn’t even think that he would have made it out of camp. The football teams love lived on and they stuck together for their first win. As a victory the quarterback who everyone called Sunshine tried to take a few black teammates to dinner.
The owner refused service and that was the beginning of them falling apart all over again. The team calls their own meeting trying to get back together, although they are undefeated they weren’t playing well and they knew that wouldn’t work for long. On a major game referees were bribed to call multiple penalties against the Titans, but Coach Yoast knew what they were doing and said he would go to the papers. Turns out they were trying to get Coach Yoast back at the head job and forget about Boon. After a major victory the team captain is involved in a major car wreck and was paralyzed from the waist down.
Even though they lost a lot they went on and won the state title. The movie ends at the paralyzed players funeral a few years later. They all came back for it and were reminded of the Titans. The historical significance in this movie had to have been all the segregation and what went on with the desegregation. It shows how people reacted and how cruel and judgmental they were at the time. It made me realize how much things have changed.
The Essay on High School Coach Team Time
For this assignment I wanted to focus on baseball coaches. However, I was unable to attend two games each on a different level because at this point in time only the college season is underway. So instead of attending a game at a level other than college, I attended a high school practice session. At first the coach was a bit apprehensive about allowing me to attend, but he eventually allowed me ...
I thought that this was a great movie. It had a great story line and I would definitely recommend it. Even though I wasn’t alive when all this took place I thought it reenacted it excellently.
