Filmrecension: Remember the Titans av Boaz Yakin

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The 20:th of October, 2006, we saw a movie in our English class. It’s called Remember the Titans and is directed by Boaz Yakin (2001).
The film takes place in1971 in Virginia where two high schools are closed, one white and one black school. The students are forced to the TC Williams high school. However it’s not the way we see the story, it’s actually from the eyes of the high schools football team, the titans.
Because off the big complications between the two races, the composition wasn’t very appreciated. The boys didn’t get along at all.
The old white players’ coach, who had coached the team for a while, was pouched to the side when the new African American coach was hired. Coach Yoast, the white one, got a choice to be an assistant coach instead. Although he disliked that alternative and told the team that he was going to abandon them. They got very upset and didn’t accept the fact that he was leaving them behind. However they manage to persuade him to stay, and he gets to organise the defence instead.
Coach Boone, the head coach, was a very strict but fair coach. “The best player, no matter colour of the skin, plays”, he says. The first day, he shows the boys that he isn’t the one to mess around whit, and he make up roles like: they have to wear tie and suit every single match day. He is a great coach, and takes the team in his own hands and turn it into something remarkable.
Before the school starts, the team set off for a training camp. At the camp, Coach Boone put together different players and almost forced them to get to know each other. They had to spend a little time every day with another team mate. It was exactly what they needed. They truly learned how to get along with each other and some of them even became friends.
However, the movie continues when the players returned to the city and found it in totally chaos. There old friends were still in a middle of a fight. But that was not the only problem they return to. The school board didn’t like the African American coach, and they threatened him, that if the team got defeated just one game, he would be fired.
Still they didn’t lose a game, and when they managed to come to final they celebrate the hole night. But when the captain Gerry, drove away from the party, a truck bumped into his car, and it was totally crushed. He turned out to be paralyzed from the waist and down, and where definitely not able to play in the final game.
However the team played the game, without Gerry. They won, and ...