Remember the Titans movie review

"We are the titans, the mighty mighty titans" chanted the T.C. Williams High School football team; made up of black and white players. It is a movie about racism, and how two different races come together to form a united football team. Also, it is a movie about winning and hard work as a team.

Remember the Titians is a movie about a high school football team in Virginia in the early 1970's. Before the season, T.C Williams High School integrated black students to its population. Also, the school board decided that it should name a black coach as head coach (Denzel Washington). However, during the season it becomes apparent that this move was done just to please the black community, and the first step Coach Herman Boone did wrong he would be out of the job. When Coach Boone comes to town, he pushes  aside the former coach, Coach Yoast (Will Patton). All of the white players do not want to play for a different coach, but Coach Yoast finally decides to become an assistant coach, so they all continue to play.

The team goes to Roanoke College for summer camp, where they go in as two separated races only brought together by a team. After many struggles together and fights with each other, they finally bound together an a team for the first time. They were able to become a team throughout learning about each other and struggles during practices. They also seemed to bind together though music, as they sang on the bus and in the locker room. The movie shows how hard it was for black kids to interact at the predominantly white schools. They still had to deal with awful and unequal treatment in the school and in the town. They were still not allowed in some restaurants, and people acted differently when they were around the black players. But, after a while some of the people began to look past the skin color and accept them as human beings.

The team slowly begins to unite as a unit and keeps on winning. Near the end of the season, the school board tries to rig a game so the team lost and Coach Yoast would get his job back. However, he cared more about winning than getting into the Hall of Fame to allow it to happen. This shows that in a time where whites had more power than blacks, that the coach still had integrity. He didn't want his team to go down like that, and he forfeited his hall of fame spot for winning and the happiness his players received from that game.

The team also comes together after Gerry's incident. Gerry Bertier, the school's All-Pro linebacker is leaving the center of town after being welcomed back by the townspeople when he peeled out and got his by a big truck. He was paralyzed from the waist down, and could never play again. Most of the players were crushed, including his best friend Julius Campbell, and went to be with him at the hospital. While the players lost a big part of their defense, they were still such a tight knit group that they were able to fill the void left behind.

The team was able to pull through and had an undefeated season, and battled through the playoffs and won the state title. They had to persevere through many obstacles to get there, but every makes them closer as a team. People usually come together in times of struggle and tragedy. The team was able to over come racial differences and injuries to win a championship.