Blog Response to Remember The Titans

The movie, Remember The Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin, tells the story about a recently integrated school, T. C William’s football team. At the beginning of the movie, Herman Boone is asked to take the job as head coach of the football team, taking the place of former head coach Bill Yoast. The integration has only just began, and nobody is accustom to it, or trying to accept it, so therefore, Coach Boone is by himself as because he is African-American and seems to be against everybody in the school. Eventually, an agreement is worked out between the coaches, and the football team is pulled together in order to go to a training camp.

Before the camp starts, neither races will stand next to each other, let alone talk to each other, so Coach Boone starts putting them through increasingly difficult practices and games in order to get the boys learning teamwork and befriending each other. After this happens, they return back to school to be shunned by the rest of the community who look down on them because the two races are friends. The football team pulls together and manages to win the whole season, showing that their teamwork and friendship paid off, and eventually changing the views of everyone who had once discriminated against the integration.

I enjoyed this movie because I hadn’t seen it before, and it opened my eyes to how bad the integration was. Before I watched the movie, I knew little to nothing about the integration, and just accepted the fact that our society was diverse, but by seeing Remember The Titans, I saw not just how ignorant both races were, but how it affected people personally, and how much pain was inflicted on lives. It made me angry at how neither race treated each other as equals, and although I am happy to see the improvement we have made today, it is still not perfect and needs working on. By watching the movie, this became clear to me and showed me that the goal of equality has still not been reached.

Remember The Titans also held a valuable lesson that friendship, teamwork and acceptance can pull a friends, a team and a family through anything life throws at them. Without all those, the Titans would have never won the season; they would have never made new friends, learnt new differences or changed the community’s outlook on the integration for the better.

The soundtrack to the movie was also a positive, as I felt that the songs and the lyrics were just right for the scene that it was accompanying. The music used had the ability to give me a higher understanding of the scene, whether it was because the lyrics fit the event, or the music just made it more realistic, making the scene more imaginable. The music also helped hold my attention, because I knew most of the songs, and I understood them, therefore helping me have a better grasp on the concept of the movie, and the subtle lessons it was telling us.

My overall response to the movie, Remember The Titans, is that it is an amazing film with such a remarkable and bold story to tell, with many amazing and valuable lessons to teach viewers and have them carry away to apply to their own lives as I did mine.