Remember the Titans Movie Analysis
Black Society
Black folks have never had anything in this city to call their own except humiliation and despair – (discrimination)
Society
Emma is a victim to the societal mindset (Collective Thinking, the world we think to perceive and think to be existent outside of ourselves is only a projection of collective thinking). Societies influence on one’s perception. She refuses to shake hands with Julius. But later she realises how this is wrong, and after Gerry’s accident, goes up to Julius and introduces herself and shakes hands with him.
“I don't want to get to know him. You are coming to church with your mother.” (Gerry’s mother is also a victim to societal discrimination. She also adopts a new perspective after the accident and becomes good friends especially with Boone’s family members)
Boone
I'm not a savior or Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, or the Easter Bunny. I'm a football coach, that's all. Just a football coach. – Humility
The best player will play. Color won't matter. – No bias, fair to all.
“If you report at 7:30, you will not be playing football this season, you will be watching.” – Great leader, booming voice, able to inculcate discipline.
“You have just disrupted my first team meeting in an unacceptable fashion.” – (Assertive, makes himself heard and gets the message across) To Boone – “You got your brothers on the team, and you got your daddy. Gerry, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you who is your daddy. Who's your daddy, Gerry? Who's your daddy? You.” (Boone knows how to handle the conflict. He did extremely well. Gerry was discriminating the blacks and whites in the team. By referring to everyone as brothers and to himself as daddy, he equated the two races and made them equal. Brought about oneness. Later we observe how Gerry calls Julius his brother in the OT “Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother.” The values that Boone sets across is
Black folks have never had anything in this city to call their own except humiliation and despair – (discrimination)
Society
Emma is a victim to the societal mindset (Collective Thinking, the world we think to perceive and think to be existent outside of ourselves is only a projection of collective thinking). Societies influence on one’s perception. She refuses to shake hands with Julius. But later she realises how this is wrong, and after Gerry’s accident, goes up to Julius and introduces herself and shakes hands with him.
“I don't want to get to know him. You are coming to church with your mother.” (Gerry’s mother is also a victim to societal discrimination. She also adopts a new perspective after the accident and becomes good friends especially with Boone’s family members)
Boone
I'm not a savior or Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, or the Easter Bunny. I'm a football coach, that's all. Just a football coach. – Humility
The best player will play. Color won't matter. – No bias, fair to all.
“If you report at 7:30, you will not be playing football this season, you will be watching.” – Great leader, booming voice, able to inculcate discipline.
“You have just disrupted my first team meeting in an unacceptable fashion.” – (Assertive, makes himself heard and gets the message across) To Boone – “You got your brothers on the team, and you got your daddy. Gerry, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you who is your daddy. Who's your daddy, Gerry? Who's your daddy? You.” (Boone knows how to handle the conflict. He did extremely well. Gerry was discriminating the blacks and whites in the team. By referring to everyone as brothers and to himself as daddy, he equated the two races and made them equal. Brought about oneness. Later we observe how Gerry calls Julius his brother in the OT “Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother.” The values that Boone sets across is