Remember the TitansThe book

Remember the Titans The movie

The Movie• A high school football coach finds himself fighting for stakes much

higher than the State Championship in this drama based on actual events. In 1971, a court order forces three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia to integrate their student bodies and faculties for the first time. As a result, Coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton), longtime head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, is asked to step down, and Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is appointed to replace him as the school's first black faculty member. The new coach is hardly welcomed with open arms, either by the school's staff or the students, and the newly integrated team is full of players (both black and white) who have little trust or respect for one another. But Boone is determined to put a winning team on the field -- it's how he approaches the game, and his future depends on it. Against long odds, Boone helps his team overcome distrust and misunderstanding of their coach as they become a gridiron force to be reckoned with.

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The Book• The black and white members of the football team clash in racially-motivated

conflicts on a few occasions while at football camp but, after forceful coaxing and team building efforts by Coach Boone, the team manages to achieve some form of unity, as well as success. Boone makes the camp quite rigorous; when the bus is leaving for the camp all members are instructed to wear a shirt and tie; anyone not doing so will watch the season and not compete. At the camp, anybody who displays any misconduct at practice is instructed to run a mile. One time during camp, Coach Boone wakes up the players at 3:00 am to run through the woods to end up at a Civil War battleground where he delivers a stirring speech on why that war was fought ("the same fight we are still having today"). Just before the state semi-finals, Yoast is presented as a candidate for the state high school Hall of Fame, and the board tells Yoast that he will be inducted after the Titans lose their game. During the game, it becomes apparent that the board ordered the officials to fix the game against the Titans, and after seeing his daughter upset at the horrible calls, Yoast warns the head official that he will go public unless the game is called fairly. The Titans end up winning, but Yoast is told afterwards that he will not be inducted into the Hall of Fame. All-American player Gerry is paralyzed from the waist down in an automobile accident while celebrating after the game. Although Gerry is no longer able to play, the team goes on to win the championship, setting an example for the town in the process. The football team wins the AAA State championship game in Roanoke and is first runner-up in the national championship. Gerry later goes on to win a gold medal in the shot put event at the Paralympic Games. Ten years later, the team reunites at the end of the book to attend Gerry's funeral, after his death in another automobile accident. Book ended off great because the black and whites played together as equals and made it one step closer for racism to end.

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