Overcoming Adversity In Remember The Titans

The biggest theme in the film is overcoming adversity. Its something that exists and is real in the shape of defeating your opponents. Overcoming adversity is affirmed throughout the film. Remember the Titans is another great example of overcoming adversity. The movie starts out with a black coach, replacing a white coach in rural Virginia, which was white dominated at the time. When this happened many bricks were thrown through Coach Boones’s, the black coach, house. Riots and rallies were held at the school saying to keep the blacks out.At the beginning of the movie the white players were least bit excited to join black players to play football, but as time went on, they bonded together and eventually won the state championship. Gerry, white, and Julius, black, ended up to be great friends throughout the years even though at the beginning of their friendship they were bitter rivals. A movie watcher could see the hatred in their eyes as they passed each other on the field and in the school hallway. A scene in the movie
After a game Gerry is walking to a restaurant with Julius. Gerry’s girlfriend, best friend and a few more white friends pull up to him in a car. His girlfriend asks him” Gerry, come with us” meaning he would have to leave Julius. Even though it was frowned upon to be hanging out with a black man, Gerry stuck with Julius. This was a very hard decision for Gerry, which eventually led to a breakup with his girlfriend, but he had to stay with his teammate. They had come so far from when they first met to this scene.

All in all, Remember the Titans is a great example of overcoming adversity. The team had come from pure hatred to brotherhood even though they looked different. As the movie ends, the whole team is at Gerry’s funeral singing together “Goodbye”. This truly demonstrates how close the team had gotten. One of the best movie