Movie Review, Remeber the Titans
Misti Corn – 421 words
Movie Review of Remember the Titans (2000)
While watching the movie, Remember the Titans (2000), I was examining Coach Boone for the quality of leadership but soon realized I was most compelled by his assimilation of his players into their sense of self and community. Therefore, my review focuses on the competencies of community building and programming.
I saw Coach Boone as strong student affairs professional. His actions and position could very well reflect that of a college coach, instructor, or dean in current times or days past. He embraced his role as a coach but also as a role model whose responsibility was not only to win games but to develop the young men on his team into productive members of their community. From the beginning, he stressed the importance of being “one”. Taking players from diverse background, religions, and race and attempting to help them realize they are different but still the same is a difficult task, especially in the civil rights era in which the movie takes place. Coach Boone resembles Abraham Lincoln’s leadership traits by influencing the players through storytelling of experiences to help see the grand idea (Phillips, 155). Coach Boone attempts to create the obvious lesson of Gettysburg to the players’ current situation by making a midnight run to the battlefield. By telling the story of the battle, Coach Boone is using the results of the past to hopefully dictate the events of the future.
The most compelling attempt to create a strong community among the players was Coach Boone’s instance of intermingling between the races. He forced players to do ordinary activities together to realize their similarities rather than focus on the difference of skin color. In Lincoln on Leadership, Philips explains Lincoln’s attempt to create alliances between those whom you see the most difference (Phillips, 31). Respecting others and the melding of differences is a key component to a strong
Movie Review of Remember the Titans (2000)
While watching the movie, Remember the Titans (2000), I was examining Coach Boone for the quality of leadership but soon realized I was most compelled by his assimilation of his players into their sense of self and community. Therefore, my review focuses on the competencies of community building and programming.
I saw Coach Boone as strong student affairs professional. His actions and position could very well reflect that of a college coach, instructor, or dean in current times or days past. He embraced his role as a coach but also as a role model whose responsibility was not only to win games but to develop the young men on his team into productive members of their community. From the beginning, he stressed the importance of being “one”. Taking players from diverse background, religions, and race and attempting to help them realize they are different but still the same is a difficult task, especially in the civil rights era in which the movie takes place. Coach Boone resembles Abraham Lincoln’s leadership traits by influencing the players through storytelling of experiences to help see the grand idea (Phillips, 155). Coach Boone attempts to create the obvious lesson of Gettysburg to the players’ current situation by making a midnight run to the battlefield. By telling the story of the battle, Coach Boone is using the results of the past to hopefully dictate the events of the future.
The most compelling attempt to create a strong community among the players was Coach Boone’s instance of intermingling between the races. He forced players to do ordinary activities together to realize their similarities rather than focus on the difference of skin color. In Lincoln on Leadership, Philips explains Lincoln’s attempt to create alliances between those whom you see the most difference (Phillips, 31). Respecting others and the melding of differences is a key component to a strong
Cited: Phillip, D. T. (1992). Lincoln on leadership. (pp. 65-75). New York, NY: Warners Books, Inc. Yakin, B. (Director) (2000). Remember the Titans.