Ethical Issues In Remember The Titans
Remember the Titans
Probably one of the best movies in the early 2000s, not only because it is a fantastic story about the glory win of a high school football team. It is the movie “Remember the Titans”. In my opinion, “Remember the Titans” shows that it doesn’t matter where you come from, which skin color you have, or even how smart or strong you are. You are always respect as a person. But there are a lot of ethical decisions made in that movie, because of that different mix of persons and the time it plays in. I’m going to explain three of the ethical decisions that people made in “Remember the Titans. There is one scene at the beginning of the movie where the whole team was on a field trip to achieve their team spirit. Coach Boone
asked Louie Lastik to tell something about the new Afro-American Quarterback Jerry Harris. So Lastik told Coach everything that he knew, his favorite song, football team, etc. But Coach noticed he was the only one who knows anything about a person from another “race”, so he made the plan that everyone has to tell a short story about his roommate and his favorite things, plays, classes, family, etc. That was a huge ethical decision for the whole team, because it really improved the knowledge of each player and every player recognized that his teammates are all the same nice person doesn’t matter which skin color they have. There is another scene in the movie were the Defensive Captain Gerry Bertier kicked Ray Budds out. He did that because Ray let Petty Jones hit on purpose. Ray didn’t want to play with all the new “black” people, so he tried to take all the people out. Gerry didn’t support that, so he had to kick Ray out of the team for that what he did. So he had to kick out even one of his best friends in the whole team. So he had to decide between him and his whole team satisfaction. That was a hard decision for him, but he decided to do the best for team no matter which color the people are. In another scene Alan Bosley, one of the defensive players changed himself with Petey Jones in the middle of the game. He noticed that he was too slow for the offensive player and that he scored some touchdowns. So he decided to put Petey instead of him in the game because he knew he is better than himself. In my opinion that was a big ethical decision for him, especially when his dad screamed over the whole field. But he still choose to do the best for the whole team and not only him.
As you can see there are many ethical decisions in the movie “Remember the Titans”. Most of them are really good ethical decisions through the entire movie. On the other hand some people showed how hard it was to live in that time in a “mixed” school and neighborhood. One example for that unethical behavior is Ryan. That behavior shows how people still were critical to the Afro-American people in that time. Long story short, it was and still is one of the best movies that shows it doesn’t matter where you come from.
Probably one of the best movies in the early 2000s, not only because it is a fantastic story about the glory win of a high school football team. It is the movie “Remember the Titans”. In my opinion, “Remember the Titans” shows that it doesn’t matter where you come from, which skin color you have, or even how smart or strong you are. You are always respect as a person. But there are a lot of ethical decisions made in that movie, because of that different mix of persons and the time it plays in. I’m going to explain three of the ethical decisions that people made in “Remember the Titans. There is one scene at the beginning of the movie where the whole team was on a field trip to achieve their team spirit. Coach Boone
asked Louie Lastik to tell something about the new Afro-American Quarterback Jerry Harris. So Lastik told Coach everything that he knew, his favorite song, football team, etc. But Coach noticed he was the only one who knows anything about a person from another “race”, so he made the plan that everyone has to tell a short story about his roommate and his favorite things, plays, classes, family, etc. That was a huge ethical decision for the whole team, because it really improved the knowledge of each player and every player recognized that his teammates are all the same nice person doesn’t matter which skin color they have. There is another scene in the movie were the Defensive Captain Gerry Bertier kicked Ray Budds out. He did that because Ray let Petty Jones hit on purpose. Ray didn’t want to play with all the new “black” people, so he tried to take all the people out. Gerry didn’t support that, so he had to kick Ray out of the team for that what he did. So he had to kick out even one of his best friends in the whole team. So he had to decide between him and his whole team satisfaction. That was a hard decision for him, but he decided to do the best for team no matter which color the people are. In another scene Alan Bosley, one of the defensive players changed himself with Petey Jones in the middle of the game. He noticed that he was too slow for the offensive player and that he scored some touchdowns. So he decided to put Petey instead of him in the game because he knew he is better than himself. In my opinion that was a big ethical decision for him, especially when his dad screamed over the whole field. But he still choose to do the best for the whole team and not only him.
As you can see there are many ethical decisions in the movie “Remember the Titans”. Most of them are really good ethical decisions through the entire movie. On the other hand some people showed how hard it was to live in that time in a “mixed” school and neighborhood. One example for that unethical behavior is Ryan. That behavior shows how people still were critical to the Afro-American people in that time. Long story short, it was and still is one of the best movies that shows it doesn’t matter where you come from.