Remember The Titans Research Paper
Out of Class Movie Reaction: Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans’ is a movie based out of Virginia, it tells the story of a small town were one black and one white high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. While merging the schools were a big task, merging the two football teams was even bigger. Denzel Washington was giving the head coaching job at T.C. William high school the job was previously by soon to had been Hall of Fame Coach Bill Yoast. Denzel had to bring a group of white and black young men together doing a time period were racism was at its highest point. Denzel wasn’t welcomed by his community or his players but he was determined to make sure the team experienced …show more content…
After Mr. Washington got the head coach job the town was in a fury. There were many people who tried to influence Denzel to give the job up to the white coach who had previously coached the team before they were merged. Although they weren’t successful at getting Denzel to give away his job, they did get him to include the white coaches on his staff. This made it easier for both the black and white members of the football team.
The turning point in the movie that brought everyone together was when the team started doing well together, and when there were no problems with ethnocentrism. However I believe the biggest turning point of the movie is when one of the white football players got hurt and his brother came to check on him. His brother just happened to be a black kid, the same black kid he got into a argument with at the beginning of the move, the same black kid who he thought he was better than. When Berteer saw Julius in the hospital room his face lit up immediately. Not only did this show the two of them that they needed each other and that their race shouldn’t hinder that. It showed the community that everyone can get alone. This turning point highlights a significant point in not only the movie, but in history as well. It showed us that we were able to do it. Blacks and Whites would be able to work together without any
Remember the Titans’ is a movie based out of Virginia, it tells the story of a small town were one black and one white high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. While merging the schools were a big task, merging the two football teams was even bigger. Denzel Washington was giving the head coaching job at T.C. William high school the job was previously by soon to had been Hall of Fame Coach Bill Yoast. Denzel had to bring a group of white and black young men together doing a time period were racism was at its highest point. Denzel wasn’t welcomed by his community or his players but he was determined to make sure the team experienced …show more content…
After Mr. Washington got the head coach job the town was in a fury. There were many people who tried to influence Denzel to give the job up to the white coach who had previously coached the team before they were merged. Although they weren’t successful at getting Denzel to give away his job, they did get him to include the white coaches on his staff. This made it easier for both the black and white members of the football team.
The turning point in the movie that brought everyone together was when the team started doing well together, and when there were no problems with ethnocentrism. However I believe the biggest turning point of the movie is when one of the white football players got hurt and his brother came to check on him. His brother just happened to be a black kid, the same black kid he got into a argument with at the beginning of the move, the same black kid who he thought he was better than. When Berteer saw Julius in the hospital room his face lit up immediately. Not only did this show the two of them that they needed each other and that their race shouldn’t hinder that. It showed the community that everyone can get alone. This turning point highlights a significant point in not only the movie, but in history as well. It showed us that we were able to do it. Blacks and Whites would be able to work together without any