The film “Remember the Titans” is about T.C Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia during 1971 when they had allowed it to be a mixed race high school. In the beginning of the movie it starts off with the ending scene where all the characters are at a funeral for their friend Gerry Bertier who was in a severe crash ten years ago near the end of their high school’s football season and was paralyzed from the waist down. As this goes on, the narrator of the movie starts to go back to the start of that year. As it starts the story, in 1971, the high school had gotten a new head coach, Herman Boone, for its football team who was the first African-American to lead that team. While talking to the now assistant head coach, Bill Yoast, Coach Boone described his previous positions at different schools where he had won a few championships and told Yoast the one reason he came there was to win.
During the summer, Coach Boone had a meeting with all the soon to be students who wanted to play football and described how training was going to be. While doing so, Coach Yoast had brought the rest who originally wanted to be the team and interrupted Boone while he was telling the plans for training. When they were getting on the buses to go to Gettysburg College for the training, Coach Boone had all the students divided between who would be on offense and who would be on defense. Once they went into position, Boone started to pair them up with the opposite race to try and get them to change the way they would act with one another. Once there and in the dorm rooms, some had started a fight that lead to several more joining in. When Coach Boone had stopped it, he had told them to control the anger for the field and took them to start practice. While the first practice hadn’t started the way Boone had wanted, he had made them keep doing more and more exercises until night hit. The next day Coach Boone and Coach Yoast had woke the team up early for a long run that had led to Gettysburg. While there, Coach Boone had described the battle of Gettysburg with the purpose of it and related the reason for it to how the team had been acting previously. It had helped him get most of the team to start to change and get along with one another. During their next practice as they kept trying over and over to perfect a play, the chaos that the players had between one another had finally stopped. Once school had started and football season had begun Coach Boone had been told that if he were to lose just once that he would be kicked off the team and Yoast would be the head coach again. This was something that had surprised Boone but also was motivation to keep training the team in any way to make sure they will succeed. Although it had ended in a victory for the Titans, it had also been a struggle. As their running back had now switched to the defense and their first quarterback got injured, things weren’t looking too good. Their backup quarterback had doubts on how he thought he could do, but during his first game he had surprised everyone with his skill. Near the end of the season as the celebrate making it to the state championship, Gerry Bertier had sadly gotten into a car accident that paralyzed his lower half. This had shocked the whole team, and his mother. While he was in the hospital he had talked to coach Boone and coach Yoast in a positive way about it to lift the depression away from the thought of his injury. Later that week was the Championship game. A game that both Coach Boone and Yoast were looking forward to throughout the entire season as they had the team practice over and over to try and be the best they could be. While Gerry was recovering he had started to watch the game. During it he would yell at the TV to cheer or go against plays by either team. In the last few seconds of the game Coach Boone had gave them a play that lead to fooling the enemy team and they ran the ball in for a touchdown and the first championship game for T.C Williams. After high school was over for all of them they had not meet up for a while until Gerry’s funeral in 1981. This had showed that they had all changed in a positive way toward one another and showed care for people they originally did not over ten years before.
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