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The movie Remember the Titans was a film that was released in 2000. It is a movie that is based on a true story, and it is the story of a high school football team in Alexandria, Virginia. The setting is in 1971 and the high school T.C. Williams was desegregated just before summer camp was ready to take place. T.C. Williams hires a black head coach played by Denzel Washington, to take over as head coach of the football team that turns out to be half white, and half black. Coach Boone (Washington) juggles racial hatred from the locals and racial debates on his own football team about who should be starting and who belongs where. The team starts off the summer camp with a lot of problems still relating back to racial tension, but throughout the camp with a lot of fighting and arguing, the last night before the camp was to be over, they came together on the field. Then, once they returned home from camp the town, and the players parents thought that the players had been, “brainwashed,” because they came home singing and chanting alongside one another. There is another point in the movie when a restaurant owner does not allow the black football players to eat as his restaurant. The team showed adversity by blocking out the problems off the field to deal with the problems on the field, and in the end going on to win a state championship and finishing their season at a perfect 13-0. The movie overall portrays a lot of racial tension and the problems that arouse from it.
This movie relates to the classes first reading which was by Zinn and how Columbus came to America in search of gold for his country. The chapter was about Columbus taking over the country and doing what he needed to do to get his job done. This movie also shows that image. Coach Boone came into the school with his back against the wall, and he did what he had to do to get his job done. He did not care about race or skin color or anything, he wanted to win and he was going to play the players who were going to help him win. No matter what the consequence, he was not there to win a popularity contest in the movie, he did not care if they were “black, white, blue, green, or orange,” he was going to do what he needed to, to win.
` This is one of my favorite movies, and without a doubt one of the most inspirational movies I have ever watched. Seeing high school kids, overcome and deal with the hand that they had been dealt is overwhelming to see. The way that the team dealt with the situation, even with the town against them, overcame adversity, and went on to a successful season.