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    Remember the Titans (September 2000) is a movie that will forever be known as a great. It’s not just a basic movie about football, it’s much more than that. It’s a movie that proves that even though times get rough, it’s possible to overcome it. This movie shows various forms of sociological issues in Alexandria. Discrimination is very evident throughout the entire movie. The white community does not want anything to do with the black community nor do they want to be around them. They do…

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    Remember the Titans is an American sports drama film based on the true story of a high school football team in 1971 at T.C. Williams High School in the city of Alexandria, Virginia. However, it’s much more than just a movie. In this film, it shows how T.C. Williams High School succumbs to integration and the racial issues and tension that follow with it. The movie focuses on African American coach Herman Boone and the difficulties of leading a football team comprising of members of both races.…

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    Race discrimination has become a huge problem. The issue isn’t as bad as it was in the 1900s, but it is still bad. Remember The Titans and Hidden Figures are both movies about race discrimination and how everyone accepts each other for who they are and not their skin colour at the end. But, the way both movies portray the racism is completely different. Characters, symbolic moments and the main idea are what will be the focus. These three topics will explain how race discrimination was back then…

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    Remember The Titans is a movie based on a true story of a football team in Alexandria, Virginia. It was 1971, and T.C. Williams High School has just integrated. This doing created confusion in the town of Alexandria but especially in the football team which came from glorious days captained by coach Yoast (Will Patton) and formed by white players only. The school board decided to bring in a new coach, Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) in order to make the new team merge racially successfully.…

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    Remember the Titans is the story about a football team coach who tries to unite a racially divided team. The movie focuses on how a black head coach leads the newly formed black and white members of the team to achieve its goal despite the group members differences in their behavior and color. The highlight point of the movie was the challenges that the leader and the members had to face by coming together as a multi-racial team and working for the success. This movie is the perfect example for…

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    INTRODUCTION "Remember the Titans" The film takes place in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971- a time of segregation. T.C. Williams High school football team has just become integrated and has received a new black head coach, Herman Boone. He took the job of head coach from Coach Bill Yoast. There are some racial tensions. Boone offers Bill Yoast a job as assistant coach and he accepts after the white players threaten to sit out the season. During football camp, the boys become better acquainted and…

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    Released in 2000 and produced by Walt Disney Pictures (and Jerry Bruckheimer Films), Remember the Titans is a sports film dramatization of the true story of Coach Herman Boone, who was an integral part of the 1971 integration of T.C. Williams High School (and consequently, its football program). Naturally (due both to the close proximity to the Civil Rights movement, and to the setting of Virginia), this was a highly controversial change that was met with opposition both externally from the…

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    Remember the Titans: Essay Attention Getter Here. Too many events were changed, or even never happened when the team was training at the football camp. Racism was brought to an extreme at T.C. Williams High School unlike the real life events. Players and coaches were changed and added to a point where they could be considered different people. Due to there being more differences than similarities with the real story and the movie, Remember the Titans should most definitely not use the phrase…

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    Braydon There are many conflicts throughout the film 'Remember the Titans', which is set in 1971 in West Virginia, Alexandra, and directed by Boaz Yakin. One important conflict is between Gerry and Julius, this conflict deepens the understanding of Gerry and Julius' relationship. Another important conflict is between Gerry and Ray, revealing how their relationship wasn’t the strongest. These conflicts also help to convey Boaz Yakin's messages. Gerry and Julius run into conflict when they do…

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    The movie Remember the Titan is about a T. C. Williams High School football team who overcomes numerous obstacle to obtain a state championship. The battle that most students faced was racism. In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all states imposed to segregation in public school. The school board enforced white and black student to collaborate in school activities. People were still adjusting to new changes. The school was not coping with these…

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