Remember the Titans Opening scene – arriving at Gary’s funeral. The Titans theme music is playing as they walk up the hill to Gary’s grave site. Verbal Technique of narration by voice-over Sheryl: “In Virginia highschool football is a way of life. It’s bigger than Xmas day. My daddy coached in Alexandria. He worked so hard my momma left him. But I stayed with coach‚ he needed me on that field. Up until 1971 in Alexandria there was no race mixing. Then the school board forced us to integrate
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are about an African American coach (Herman Boone) who has tried to mix the black and the white people in one school. This was the first person who has made and school with both black and white people in their specific area. It started off seeming like a really bad idea because the white people did no want to socialise or even be in the same room as a black person. There was continues fights and arguments‚ especially with the boys football team which Herman Boone was the coach of. When the black people
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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
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Civil Rights movement‚ when all-black and all-white high school has been combined in Alexandria‚ West Virginia. Football was the only thing this town was known for‚ the school year begins not in school but on the football field. It starts with Herman Boone‚ a coach from South Carolina who is a hard core coach who doesn’t take any shit. He was hired by white board to please black population of their new school‚ which put coach Bill Yoast in the assistant coach position. It was Boone’s job to unite
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complications start. The white players are reluctant to play with the black players as a team. Herman Boone (Denzel Washington)‚ a strict coach who loves the game‚ replaces Yoast as head coach. Boone believes in team play. During the summer training camp‚ he teaches the players how to play but also how to bond; become friends. When school starts‚ the season starts. With an all-new team in place‚ Boone and Yoast team up to make the team better than ever. Helping out the team is Yoast’s
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apart by racial hatred and the order to integrate their public high schools. Reluctantly‚ the school board replaces Bill Yoast (Will Patton)‚ the popular white coach‚ with Herman Boone (Denzel Washington)‚ a reputable black coach‚ as head coach of the T.C. Williams Titans football team. Yoast‚ under an invitation from Boone‚ accepts the position as coach of the defensive line. Together they inspire‚ not just the team‚ but the town to “Trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him.” This
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Based on a true story‚ the movie Remember the Titans directed by Boaz Yakin and written by Gregory Allen Howard‚ is the story of an African American football coach named Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) who was appointed as head coach to the football team‚ over Bill Yoast (Will Patton)‚ of the first integrated high school in Virginia - T.C. Williams High School located in Alexandria. At a football camp‚ the newly integrated team is forced to overcome their prejudices against one another and eventually
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hatred. Both the new Head Coach (Herman Boone) and Coach Yoast initially did not want to take on their new positions. An important part of the formation phase that helped the team come together was when Coach Boone integrated the buses that were going to the football camp. Instead of allowing the players to choose what bus to go on‚ Boone split the buses into offensive or defensive sides to immediately make the black and white players be around each other. Coach Boone also made the players bunk with
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colors. It signifies the qualities of a true leader‚ as right before the final match they lost their captain and the coach gave his players to play even in those difficult times. | * Remember the titans Herman Boone Leadership concerns with implementing a strategy. Boone believed that cooperative working of the team is very crucial to win. He also believed that it was important for the members of a team to know and understand each other. He had a clear vision‚ he wanted to have a strong
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story of a 1971 high school football team in Virginia during their first year of desegregation. Herman Boone‚ a black man‚ is picked to be the head coach of the team which causes uproar with members of the white community. When Boone named coach‚ the white players threaten to boycott the football program. Because of this‚ the previous coach Bill Yoast‚ a white man‚ decides that he will team up with Boone to coach the team. Both the coaches and players have to go through many difficult trials and tribulations
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