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Filmanal­yse: Remember the Titans - Movie Analysis

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Remember the Titans, 2000

  1. Situation at the beginning of the film

-city: The blacks and whites are spereated and whites look down on the dark skinnend people, they think they are something better. You can see the segregation at the beginning when the blacks are very angry because an officer has killed a black child. After that the whites seem like nothing has happened and its just a normal event.

-school: Two high schools get into one because of political reasons. The blacks and whites get mixed and none of the two groups is happy with that

-football team: The football teams of the schools get also together and a black, Hermann Boone, gets head coach and the a lot more successful coach of the white team, the Titans, is only assistant coach from now. In the beginning you can see how much the teams hate each other and coach Yoast isn’t happy with the principals decision.

White players say they won’t play under Boone. He gets motivated by a big crowd of people in front of his house. He goes to Yoast and wants to make him a fair offer but Yoast is sending him back home without giving an answer.


  1. Important Characters

  1. Main characters:

  • Hermann Boone:

  • -married with a black woman

  • -two children, typical girls

  • -was football coach for a long time in Morth Carolina

  • -very focused on winning with his team, not interested in skin colors

  • -is always tough but fair to the players

  • -gets a bit more human during the film

  • Bill Yoast:

  • -married, but woman is never shown

  • -daughter Sheryl, comes straight after him

  • -knows that he’s a very good coach

  • -prefers the white players at the beginning

  • -not happy with being only assistance/ defense coach

  • -get out of prejudices until the end

  • Julius Campbell:

  • -at the beginning strict against whites, especially against captain Gerry Bertier

  • in the end they are best friends

  • respects Yoast in the end

  • Gerry Bertier:

  • one of the best players

  • captain of the old and the new team

  • is absolutely standing behind coach Yoast

  • respects Boone in the end

  • Ronnie “Sunshine” Bass:

  • comes to the camp with his dad and long hair

  • first his hair gets cut of

  • is flirting with Gerry in the first training

  • popular by the girls, but he is homosexual

  • at the beginning he isn’t respected because he is a kind of “other”

  • in the end respected

  1. Other characters

Louie Lastik: He’s very funny and the first white who hangs around with the black guys. Boone wants him to get good marks and to go to college, what he reaches in the end.

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Sheryl Yoast: She’s Bill Yoast’s daughter and a real football fanatic which she has from her dad. Doesn’t want to play with dolls.

Alan Bosley: He’s a good player but doesn’t bring it in one match and coach takes him out. After this his father complains about coach Boone. Then in the final match he could play but he doesn’t want and sends Petey in.

Petey Jones: A funny boy who seems like the leader of the blacks at the first meeting with coach Boone. Has to sit on the bank, because he let his teammates down. But Alan doesn’t want to play and says to him that now is his turn and he takes the chance.

Ray Budds: At beginning Gerry’s best friend, the two want to impress Boone with big words. He gets kicked out of the team by Gerry because he didn’t block somebody intentionally.

Emma Hoyt: She was the girlfriend of Gerry, but when he comes home from camp it isn’t the same. They diverge but it seems very friendly. In the final match Julius Campbell gets to know her.


  1. Important incidents and turning points

  • Boone goes to Yoast to make peace with him and make him a fair offer. That’s a sign for his professionality and seems like he doesn’t judge whites for don’t liking blacks. On the contrary to that Yoast isn’t very nice and sends him back home without mentioning the offer.

  • Boone is mixing up the blacks and whites at the beginning of the camp in the busses rooms and eating tables.

  • At the first meeting with Boone (only the black boys are there), where he tells the players his authoritarian kind of education. It seems like the beginning of a very hard time for the players, they get a lot of respect for him

  • Julius screams at Bertier he should tell his teammates if they aren’t blocking right because he’s the captain. They aren’t talking in a friendly way. On the next day Gerry does who he has been told and they start to push each other. This is the beginning of a great friendship.

  • The homosexual “Sunshine” comes to the camp -> he is another kind of “not normal”.

  • They are making a walk to Gettysburg, where a big fight was from the 1st until the 3rd of July 1863 and many people died. Boone tells the boys that his brothers were also killed here and if the players don’t come together and stay like brothers even out of the camp. This is a very motivating speech.

  • At one match the players walk in the stadium with gospel singing. This gets to an important sign for the mixed skin colors and a ritual.


    1. Situation at the end

    In school, the football team and the city has changed, that the racism got a bit less. The most you can see this is in the football team. The one thing they all love doesn’t make differences between blacks and whites: football. In the end they got to know that they can only reach big aims if they work together in a team and not everyone against his own teammates.

    Through the good integration of Sunshine you can also see that they aren’t interested in skin colors or even sexual orientation because the team is there to stand up for each other on and next to the football field.

    In the city the situation has also got better, what you can see when a white officer tells Julius what a great game they played the day before and how good coach Boone is. Even Gerry’s mum who first doesn’t like Julius is in the end good with him. But I think that the racism in the city isn’t over yet.

    In the school the football team is a big sign for tolerance and maybe role model for the whole school community where they can all learn from. To sum it all up football is the connective factor in the movie that shows all people that only if everybody respects each other, it doesn’t have to be friendship, a success is able and then the feeling of solidarity is very huge.


    1. Keywords in the movie

    Racism: It’s the main problem in Alexandria when the two schools get connected and a black man gets head coach.

    Prejudices: They maybe don’t know by theirselves why the whites don’t like the blacks and until the and these prejudices get out of way.

    Segregation: The blacks and whites life in certain parts of the city and because of that they don’t get to know each other and who beautiful their characters are. So the prejudices only get more than less.


    1. Review

    I didn’t’ like about the movie that some situation where shown a bit over the top. If you read in the internet you can see that for example it wasn’t like all teams were only white and the Titans were the only black team in Carolina. The most teams the faced were integrated years before (Wikipedia).

    Even if this isn’t real part of the history it makes the coaches a bit more human and you get a deeper view into their life.

    In my opinion the whole story sends a big message to all people, no matter if their black or white. You can see that the footballers get closer and closer and in the end they win the championship with team power. It is a big sign for tolerance and the near ending of the racial segregation.

    Another shown problem is shown, which concerns even a bit more to our modern times: The homosexuality of Ronnie Bass. He is first despised by blacks and whites, but in the end he is integrated in the team like each other. We all can look up something from this movie like tolerance and respect.





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