Final Film Analysis: Remember The Titans, By Gregory Allen Howard

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Final Film Analysis Paper

Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” People need to learn that they should work together otherwise nothing will get achieved. In the film Remember the Titans by Gregory Allen Howard, based on a true story, a high school in Virginia is forced to accept black students into their school. Denzel Washington plays the role of a coach known as Coach Herman Boone who replaced the highly successful Coach Bill Yoast of the white school. These two coaches have to learn how to trust and depend on one another to unite and have a successful football team. Herman Boone tried to get a high school football team to come together and put aside the students differences. The lesson that applies …show more content…

Coach Boone is a black man who disciplines the high school students on the football team to come together. In the beginning of the film one of the black students whose name was Jerry ‘Rev’ Harris thought Coach Boone was going to be “cool” since he was the same skin color as them (Yakin, 2000). Boone proved to all of the students that he wants to be taken seriously. Coach Boone also has to work with another coach Bill Yoast, who is white. They both don’t agree with each other at first but then they learn to come together in the end. One of the most important scenes in this film was when Coach Herman Boone took the whole football team to go on a run (Yakin, 2000). He told them about what happened during the war. When he talked about the war in Gettysburg he told the boys that Fifty thousand men died fighting over racism. Boone told the boys that if they didn’t come together soon that they will all end up like the men who fought in the war. This scene in particular was important because if he had not told them about that story,

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