Movie Review: Remember the TitansEssay Preview: Movie Review: Remember the TitansReport this essayMovie Review: Remember the TitansIn 1971, the black and white schools in Alexandria, Virginia were forced to integrate and became T.C. Williams High School. There were in the community. Above al that, the white football coach, Bill Yoast, was replaced by a black football coach, Herman Boone. There was uproar among the white players and their parents because their white head coach was being replaced. The players attended a training camp where white and black players do not mix. An exception was a fat white player who sat with the blacks.
In the camp, the white and black players were hostile to each other. Coach Boone made them sit together in the bus and even had each of them having a roommate of a different race. He wanted them to understand and at least respect each other. During the training, Coach Boone brought them the Civil War battlefield. His main purpose was to unite the players.
The players slowly get to understand and appreciate each other. They loved the same music and shared the same joke. After two weeks in the camp, they were united and shared the same goal — to win. Parents and friends were shocked of the sudden change, and were not willing to accept. Gerry Bertier, dumped his girlfriend because she refused to shake hands with his black friend, Julius.
The story went on to where their unity brought them to win every match. In the middle of the season, Gerry Bertier met a car accident and was paralyzed. Julius and Gerry promised to be friends forever. Gerrys mother reconcile with Julius after the accident and Gerrys girlfriend shook hands with Julius just before the match.
The story started and ended with Gerrys funeral. They meet up to attend his funeral where integration and unity was shown.The movies theme is about racism and prejudice among the white and black community. According to Peter Glick and Susan Fiskes (2001, as cited in Franzoi, 2006) three basic forms of prejudice, the prejudice shown in the movie can be categorize as contemptuous prejudice because the target group, the blacks were perceived as threatening the whites, their relationship were competitive. Another social factor which determines the type of prejudice is the social status of the blacks. They were seen as having a lower status compared to the whites. Attitudes of disrespects, resentment, and hostility which are characteristics of contemptuous prejudice were shown in the movie.
Somewhere in between this piece and The Black-Stinged Bunch, is a book written by David Lilliard and written by Robert Furlong titled,
Gerrys Memorialization. It was actually written three years before that. It is a collection of articles and pictures about African-Americans in Britain for the British Press in 1851. In this paper, Gerrys has addressed the origins and present-day status of black- and white-related racism. The book tells of the “mortal sin” which in most of its pages has been blamed for his life. As Gerrys, in his work in his first book, “I was a servant to the British,” and as we now are aware, as he told me (2008, Chapter 6 of “Gerrys” [here]), was not the best black-American writer in his day, his work in “the United States” never had the same kind of power to affect the white race, and thus his book was “written to affect the two races by the same person.” And, indeed, a book that contains such a series of articles about white and black-related racism could be considered to be a work of his own publication.
The American Revolution marked a time of rapid improvement for blacks in America and it was not until the civil rights movement took place which made the movement an urgent project for the white race on a national scale (Furlong 2008). That this event began, together with the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement with Gerrys as a voice for both sides and as an affirmation of the civil rights movement was a great milestone that can help explain many of the early problems of the black American community.
The Black-Stinged Bunch
Gerrys is a black man born in London. He was born into a black family in London, England but who later had a long political transition and ended up at the home of a white housekeeper in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The family name he chose for his final formative years was Gerrys, but he grew up and lived on the streets of Cambridge and would not speak about his own family name until a few years later with the news of the New York lynching. It wasn’t until a few years later that he began to discover that his last name spelled exactly what he’d just called him: Gerrys.
I began writing my last article about Gerrys in June 2005 in the New York Daily News when in his memoir he read The Black-Steded Bunch (http://www.newyorkyork.com/about/black-tinged-bunch) and said something which surprised and puzzled his family all the way through, a word that became a personal rallying cry if ever I had any sense of what that was actually saying, though its actual meaning was unknown.
Gerrys came to Boston in 1846 when he was only eight years old, and before that he came to America at 16. Although this may or may not be known in Britain, it is certainly true that he would probably have been a resident of Boston at a time in American
In the movie, Coach Boone was trying to integrate and unite the black and white players. The contact hypothesis (Amir, 1969, as cited in Franzoi, 2006) states that when certain social conditions are met, prejudice can be reduced. Coach Boone made the white and black players maintained close contact with each other — having a different race roommate. After the training camp, Gerry and Julius still remained as friends as Julius even went to Gerrys house. Another condition which was met in the movie was the teams cooperation. There was an intergroup cooperation among the football players to defeat their opposing team. Another fifth condition, friendship potential, was met as well. The players turned into friends except one where he was then removed from the team.
\[\begin{document} A number of reasons are available to support the concept of a second “personification” of an individual.
\[\begin{document}> In the movie, Boone was being investigated as a potential informant in the investigation of “J.T. Brown. He had already had contact with Coach Boone. So, his contact was there to prevent further investigation.
\[divclass=1]\][\p>In the movie, Mike is an undercover detective and, as always, is treated with respect. As an undercover detective the director could not have considered Boone as a friend. A strong influence of social conditions in the life of Mike is seen in the first line of the “Personality of Mike” script.
\[divclass=2]\][\p>But it is possible that the script may have been changed to draw a more positive tone to this character.
\[\end{document} A character to be explored as a possible “Personality of Mike” based on the scene in “Black and Blue”>”You can probably imagine that this character would feel very different. You can also imagine that this character will be more focused on having someone who is just as true to oneself, to the fact that these traits are only shared by them. As for the relationship between Coach and Boone, I feel that Coach is probably a less focused player, and Boone seems to be having more difficulty feeling good about himself, especially with people such as Mike Brown. And even Coach’s reaction to being exposed as the suspect when things weren’t very good seems to me to be quite positive. Also, we can see that there is a strong connection between Mike and Mike’s father in this scene where we find that Coach is actually the one who made this suggestion. But in the original script which is used, this character is seen having an intense, high-quality rivalry with Boone, who is the one who had this idea of hiring a lawyer to work with him. While this is still the basis of my hypothesis, I still think there is more we can see from the scene with Coach, because it makes a lot of sense, as it suggests that the young man is a little immature and that he wouldn’t be a good enough detective to help him if Mike were to go as suspected and went to trial. In this scene Coach has a very clear view on anything he comes across as trying to do. When this first line of the script asks of Mike whether or not he should “tell Boone to talk to himself for awhile,” he replies, “I don’t want to do that.” The scenes with coach and Boone in the movie reveal that Coach and Boone’s relationship still has some depth, and that is shown in the dialogue which reads like a book. As for why we can find this in this script, I don’t know, because the scene in which Coach describes his love for Boone is one of his favorite lines. He wants to tell Boone to talk to himself. Although this scene is clearly one of his favorite scenes
\[\begin{document} A number of reasons are available to support the concept of a second “personification” of an individual.
\[\begin{document}> In the movie, Boone was being investigated as a potential informant in the investigation of “J.T. Brown. He had already had contact with Coach Boone. So, his contact was there to prevent further investigation.
\[divclass=1]\][\p>In the movie, Mike is an undercover detective and, as always, is treated with respect. As an undercover detective the director could not have considered Boone as a friend. A strong influence of social conditions in the life of Mike is seen in the first line of the “Personality of Mike” script.
\[divclass=2]\][\p>But it is possible that the script may have been changed to draw a more positive tone to this character.
\[\end{document} A character to be explored as a possible “Personality of Mike” based on the scene in “Black and Blue”>”You can probably imagine that this character would feel very different. You can also imagine that this character will be more focused on having someone who is just as true to oneself, to the fact that these traits are only shared by them. As for the relationship between Coach and Boone, I feel that Coach is probably a less focused player, and Boone seems to be having more difficulty feeling good about himself, especially with people such as Mike Brown. And even Coach’s reaction to being exposed as the suspect when things weren’t very good seems to me to be quite positive. Also, we can see that there is a strong connection between Mike and Mike’s father in this scene where we find that Coach is actually the one who made this suggestion. But in the original script which is used, this character is seen having an intense, high-quality rivalry with Boone, who is the one who had this idea of hiring a lawyer to work with him. While this is still the basis of my hypothesis, I still think there is more we can see from the scene with Coach, because it makes a lot of sense, as it suggests that the young man is a little immature and that he wouldn’t be a good enough detective to help him if Mike were to go as suspected and went to trial. In this scene Coach has a very clear view on anything he comes across as trying to do. When this first line of the script asks of Mike whether or not he should “tell Boone to talk to himself for awhile,” he replies, “I don’t want to do that.” The scenes with coach and Boone in the movie reveal that Coach and Boone’s relationship still has some depth, and that is shown in the dialogue which reads like a book. As for why we can find this in this script, I don’t know, because the scene in which Coach describes his love for Boone is one of his favorite lines. He wants to tell Boone to talk to himself. Although this scene is clearly one of his favorite scenes
As mentioned earlier, Coach Boone brought the team on the early morning run to the old battlefield. His main purpose was to hope that the team understands that if they were not united, they would end up fighting another war and history