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Remember the Titans

Remember the Titans on the surface appears as any other high school football team where winning the State Championship is the chief priority of the team and town. However, Titans delves into a much more intricate and layered texture as it provides a social commentary and football serves as more of a welding tool.

Remember the Titans chronicles the extraordinary true story of the 1971 T.C. Williams high school team’s season against all odds. When a Virginian school employs Herman Boone (Denzel Washington), an African-American, as their coach to takeover for Coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton), it sparks a vicious uproar from the town. Boone’s presence is clearly unwanted by the racist town, but he then offers openings to African-Americans on the team. Using the football team as a framework and structured brotherhood, Boone manages to convert the players to not only being tolerant but engaged in their lives.

Obviously, films like these are fairly predictable, but that aside, it does not detract from its heartfelt unraveling and inspirational triumph through passion as everyone stands together strong. You don’t see a movie like this for the unexpected twists and turns, but for the pressure points on the hinges of desperation in times of despair. How they overcome the struggles and prosper standing taller than ever before is why we are pleased as a crowd.

This true story was well crafted, featuring great performances all around. There is a supreme dichotomy between Boone and Yoast as their methods vary greatly. Boone is intense and his grit strikes fear into all the troops as he runs his team militantly. Yoast is firm but infuses a certain father-like quality to comfort those who endure Boone’s wrath. All of this, though, brings the team together as they all share the same common goal and mindset.

A chain reaction is catalyzed from the start as it converts all the oppositions in the end. People of black and white skin stood divided in a racially intolerant town. But using football as a device, Boone firmly vocalized – as a football coach should – and created a fusion between everyone. Even though the team endured harsh times in the real world that stifled their progress and at times divided them, they came back. And in their historic path in achieving glory on levels unrealized in the beginning, they unified the town despite petty differences. Titans delivers a heartwarming story that audiences alike will proudly accept.

Written by: John Berkowitz

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