Film Analysis: Remember The Titians

Remember the Titians an excellent movie used to depict the trials and tribulations of the time when the real Titians football team was making its debut as an integrated sports team. As screen writers and producers are want to do it is slightly over exaggerated (Unknown, 2017) as reported by Chasing the Frog, that according to the 1971 Titans Web Site in the scene where the three boys were asked to leave the restaurant did not actually happen, that this was used to emphasize the racial tension that was abundant in the storyline. The question that could be addressed would be what type of group did the football team portray? This is a pertinent question for many reasons but largely due to the fact that their group was so multifaceted as explained …show more content…
They are not only a ‘Task group’ yet they are a task group, nor are they only a ‘Problem Solving’ group, again, yet they are. They are not even an ‘Education’ group and they most certainly are, there are others that they are not solely such as a Self-Help and Mutual-Aid, or a Socialization, Sensitivity and Encounter Training group. The reason that this football team falls into all of these groups and yet are none of them is because of what they go through throughout the film. Truthfully the only true group they are is a sports group, a group designed to come together for the purpose of playing a sport, but that does not grasp what the ramifications are when our youth join a sports group. This group of young adults in the film and otherwise become that task group, as they are needed to accomplish a task, the task of working together and winning, and if they don’t win, learning how to be okay with the defeat and still know that they accomplished their task, because winning is not the sole task, working together and having fun is in there as well. Just like a task group a sports team is not just problem solving group, but it is this …show more content…
Both commanded respect, and both achieved it, yet in very different way, the reason for the differences could be contributed to the lives they have lead, or it could be their nature, either way, both were great men and lead a great team.
Coach Herman Boone’s leadership style is the authoritarian style. Coach Boone lead with an iron fist, he believed that anything other would be lying to the team and setting them up for failure and doing so would be his failure of which he could not, would not accept. Whereas Coach Bill Yoast used a transformational leadership style, which is defined as an approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. While a different approach it truly comes down to the power