“Remember the Titans” directed by Boaz Yakin tells the story of the Virginia T.C Williams High School football team, the Titans. Starring Denzel Washington, and Will Patton as coaches of the first young mixed-racial football team in Virginia. This is the greatest sports movie of all time. Why? Because it incorporates everything: great sports scenes, its based off an amazing true story, has great character driven plot lines, and above all deals with the overwhelmingly emotional story of the integrated young black and white men who represented more than just their high school football team.
The story starts with the integration of blacks into the T.C Williams High School, and the hiring of a new head football coach, Herman Boone (Washington). The team is sent to Gettysburg Virginia to attempt to gel as a team in pre-season training camp. The team comes together, but returns back to reality at T.C Williams to realize the racial barriers were still very much alive outside of their family. The team struggles through adversity throughout the season in your typical sports movie depicting the rising success of a sport team. However, what makes “Remember the Titans” different is that all along, you are experiencing the issues the boys went through first hand. Between teammates getting into school fights, being kicked out of restaurants, and the overwhelming tragedy of Wood Harris, team captain linebacker, getting paralyzed in a car accident after the team’s big win. These emotional twist and turns in the movie are what make it truly remarkable, and a one of a kind sports movie that does not come around very often.
So between the amazing story, fantastic character plots and developments, struggling era of our country, and bad ass sports scenes, this movie is by far the best. With so many great characteristics in a single film, it is hard to make an argument saying it is not a phenomenal movie. If you haven’t seen “Remember the Titans” before, you’re an idiot, and your missing out. Go watch it now!
Let me first off just say that I like your review of Remember the Titians. I think that you highlighted the main points in the story. But although your blog was interesting, I think you could add a little more about the movie or focus on a certain part. I feel as if it would add more to your blog. Overall based off of your blog I would probably go out and see it if I had not already.
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