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Movie Review Of Remember The Titans

Movie Review of Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is based on the true story of the T. C. Williams High School football team as well as their challenge to accept integration on and off the football field. It is a good movie that has a moving plot, a historical setting, and an excellent cast of characters. In the previous years, T. C. Williams High School football was under the leadership of head coach, Bill Yoast. Everyone in the town thought it would always be that way, until one day news got around town that with the desegregation of the school the football staff would also be affected. This point of the movie introduces the new and motivated head coach, Herman Boone, who is an African-American. This change of coaches leaves the town in an uproar because now Yoast is the assistant instead of the head coach. With the personnel shift also comes the change of student leadership. Each football team, white and black, had their own football captain. When the teams converge, tension builds up between the two captains, Gerry and Julius, because each wants to lead the team.
Remember the Titans is a movie that depicts the real-life story of desegregation in Virginia's, T. C. Williams High School. The integration of the high school also includes the integration of their school's football team, which does not go well with the townspeople. The previous coach, Bill Yoast, gets replaced by an African-American
coach, Herman Boone, who is strict and forces all of his football players to get along. The main character, Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is a very talented coach. The other character who stole the screen next to Boone is Sheryl Yoast (Hayden Panettiere), who is the young daughter of Coach Yoast. With time the boys, black and white, get along and play football like a team. They come to overlook their skin colors and look at each other as people. The movie takes place in the small town of Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970s. During this time in...