Despite omitting certain historical details in order to expand its audience, Remember the Titans remains a powerful sports drama. With Denzel Washington as its anchor, the film's cast breathes life into the characters based on the real-life football team from Alexandria, Virginia. The true story is one of integrity, sacrifice, dedication, and ultimately respect; a story the filmmakers managed to honor without compromising its source.
... View MoreI must admit that I like the film because that is a perfect representation of racism in these years. This is a perfect story, in my opinion, the film he has a fabulous story because it has a good interpretation of racism, at the beginning there are big fights and after there is a good atmosphere.
... View MoreCoach Yoast is a great coach. But his style is completely different to the personality of the coach name. As Coach Yoast's fear activate through love and support from the team, I also like Yoast is honorable people who always do what is right. At first he was unwilling to accept the position of assistant coach of the name. The white players threat to boycott if the season head coach Yoast set aside his pride and accept the coaching position. Before one of the games during the season, the school board said it would resolve Yoast next game so that it can continue shooting.He is also not a racist , he always play fair with white player in his team and that was a good coach suppose to do.
... View MoreThis film is one terrible lie. As with a handful of other reviewers here, I was also a victim of the TC juggernaut, having attended Groveton High School during that period. It was a joke to play TC in any varsity team sport: football, basketball, soccer... it didn't matter. Everyone knew that a school three times their size was going to destroy us -- the only question was how badly. They were never, ever, an underdog in any sport — to suggest otherwise is absolute bunk.To add insult to injury, they changed the name of our team from the Tigers to the "Lions" (because they felt that Tigers was too close to Titans), and they depicted us as backwater hicks... which was laughable, since Groveton served Hollin Hills, the most intellectual and progressive community in the entire DC area, as well as other upper-middle class neighborhoods filled with career government professionals.The problem, of course, is that Hollywood dreck like this becomes gospel to those who have no knowledge of the actual events. Rather than accept moral responsibility to make a film based on real life events reflect the truth, they purposefully pervert it to satisfy their biased fantasy and obliterate the historical record.I wish I could give this grossly insulting film a negative rating, to help make up for those who have embraced it as heart-rending "truth", given that they know nothing about the events it claims to document.
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