Remember the Titans

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remember the Titans
Image:Remember the titans.jpg DVD cover
Directed by	Boaz Yakin
Produced by	Jerry Bruckheimer, Chad Oman
Written by	Gregory Allen Howard
Starring	Denzel Washington, Will Patton Kip Pardue
Music by	Trevor Rabin
Cinematography	Philippe Rousselot
Editing by	Michael Tronick
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	23 September 2000
Running time	113 min.
Language	English
Budget	$30,000,000
IMDb profile

Remember the Titans is an American drama film released in 2000. It was directed by Boaz Yakin, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney Pictures, and starred Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone. Remember the Titans centers on racial tensions in the football team of the newly integrated T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.

The movie is based on actual events that took place in 1971, when T.C. Williams and the Titans won the state championship. However, the events depicted in the movie differ from history in many important respects.

The film also used many 1970s popular songs like Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" and Marvin Gaye's & Tammi Tarrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on its soundtrack. Trevor Rabin composed the instrumental score, of which "Titan's Spirit" was the only cue added to the soundtrack; a 7 minute exploration of the movie's energetic themes.

1 Plot Summary
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot Summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The film takes place in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971, at recently desegregated T.C. Williams High School. Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is hired as head coach for the school's football team, taking the place of head coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton). Yoast at first refuses Boone's offer of a position as assistant head coach, but then changes his mind. The black and white members of the football team clash in racially-motivated conflicts on a few occasions throughout their time at football camp. But after forceful coaxing and team building efforts by Coach Boone, eventually the team manages to achieve some form of unity, as well as success. The main conflict is taken to a personal level by the portrayal of the conflict between Gerry Bertier (Ryan Hurst) and Julius Campbell (Wood Harris), two players of equally outstanding athletic ability who at first can't stand one another but eventually become sworn brothers (the turning point of their relationship becomes a focal point for the team in its racially divided ways giving way to true unity). Upon return to school, the team runs through its regular season competition undefeated while battling the prejudicial influence of the rest of 1970's Virginia. Eventually, Bertier is involved in an automobile accident while celebrating one of the team's victories. While Bertier is unable to play in the final game due to his injuries (including paralysis), the team goes on to win the championship, and sets an example for the town. The team's excellence in its unity despite racial differences ultimately unites the city of Alexandria to find common ground with one another.

[edit] Cast

Denzel Washington as Coach Boone
Will Patton as Coach Yoast
Wood Harris as Julius Campbell
Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier
Donald Faison as Petey Jones
Craig Kirkwood as Jerry 'Rev' Harris
Ethan Suplee as Louie Lastik
Kip Pardue as Ronnie 'Sunshine' Bass
Hayden Panettiere as Sheryl Yoast
Nicole Ari Parker as Carol Boone
Kate Bosworth as Emma Hoyt
Earl Poitier as Blue Stanton
Ryan Gosling as Alan Bosley
Burgess Jenkins as Ray Budds

[edit] Trivia

In order to meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article's trivia section requires cleanup.
Content in the trivia section should be integrated into other appropriate areas of the article.

The original script was full of profanity but Disney, in an effort to produce a good family film, asked producer Jerry Bruckheimer to remove all extreme profanity from the script, however in 2006 the Unrated version of Remember the Titans was released. It includes the extreme profanity and even one sex scene, featuring two strangers.
Was filmed at Druid Hills High School[1], outside of Atlanta.
Just as in the movie, T.C. Williams trained at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. However, the exterior shots of buildings and monuments barely resemble those at Gettysburg College, despite "looking historical." No "on-location" filming took place at Gettysburg College. No on-location shooting was done in Alexandria, VA, either, and the high school and fields don't resemble the actual T.C. Williams, nor does the city much resemble Alexandria.
When the team finishes its run over the battlefield at Gettysburg, Coach Boone references "Fifty thousand men died right here on this field," but this is incorrect. In fact, total casualties, i.e., killed, wounded, captured, missing, totaled between 46,000 and 51,000. Deaths were under 10,000. (more details at Battle of Gettysburg)
Opened with a gross of $20.905m in the USA and prevented September 2000 from being one of the worst months for movies ever.^{[citation needed]}
The football camp scenes were filmed at Berry College, in Rome, Georgia.
While the movie understandably dramatized the team as underdogs who overcome adversity to win the state championship, in reality the team is still remembered as one of the most talented in Virginia history, especially on defense. Most opponents were over-matched. T.C. Williams' actual opponent in the state championship was Andrew Lewis High School of Salem, Virginia. T.C. Williams won 27-0 in the actual match. However, the championship game was different in the film as the championship game opponent was George C. Marshall High School, a team that had given the Titans a more competitive game in the regular season. The movie preserved that the title game was played at Victory Stadium in Roanoke, Virginia.
The movie's premiere was held at the famous Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California.
In real life, Sheryl Yoast died in 1996, of a heart condition.
In 2003, the real life Herman Boone died, of a brain anyuresm.
During the premire the then-President Bill Clinton was present.