Remember The Titans Character Analysis Essay

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The film Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin, set in 1971, is about a high school football team who are forced to integrate and overcome their racial prejudice. An important character is Gary Bertier as throughout the film he changes and strays away from his prejudice manner and becomes a fair and promising leader that overcomes conflict that lies beneath the segregated community.

Boaz Yakin has used various methods such as the evocative use of expressive dialogue to present to us the importance of the character - Gary Bertier- and how his attitude changes overtime. An example of his initial attitude was in the near the beginning, after Coach Yoast had exclaimed that he was going to stand down from being coach. He had said to Coach …show more content…

Using music to convey that the team is together, and when they are together, they overcome conflict between the two prejudice communities. An example of this is when Gary and his team warm up in the third game by singing and dancing along to a song called “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” by Steam to show that they have finally come together and overcome conflict that happened after camp. Another conflict that Gary has faced due to the tension is his mother doesn’t approve of him associating with a black male and ends up leaning towards his mother and abandoning the team. He overcomes this after realising that they are a team and he shouldn’t treat them any different than before in the team meeting in the gym. The director uses music to show the bond created by the two races in the team. The lesson I learned was that if you work together as a team then you will finally conquer everything. There really is no ‘i’ in ‘team’.

Everyone shouldn’t pre-judge a person by how they look because they might be someone you would get along with is what the movie Remember the Titans is trying to portray. The important character - Gary Bertier shows us that if you look past your prejudice way, people you’d never thought to have associated with or get along with might just be close enough to be your family if you give them a

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