Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures bought the script based on the fact that it is a true story, but much of the film? What is the main idea of Remember the Titans?
Overcoming Racism The Titans had many differences to overcome including race, culture, and economic backgrounds. The Titans were forced to press on and uphold their pride and dignity.
As a result of overcoming adversity, the Titans developed a respect for all races that would later allow them to become better adults. How did Gary Bertier get paralyzed? Gerry Bertier. After the conclusion of the season, Bertier was involved in an automobile accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Despite this injury, Bertier remained an active athlete, participating in the Paralympics and winning multiple medals, including a gold in shot-put.
What does left side strong side mean? Strong side the 'strong side of the formations' usually where the TE is but by default the right side.
It is what often dictates where the SS lines up. Since by default the right is the 'strong' side then the left is the other side. Its a sign of the team being together. Is Herman Boone still alive? As Howard himself wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "Alexandria had a seniority system; senior coach automatically got the head job. Someone throws a brick through his window, calling him "Coach coon. I guess Disney, being the family movie production company that it is, felt that to depict a toilet stool coming through your window was a bit much I've never gotten over that incident that particular night, because I could never understand how anybody could feel so bad about another human being as to throw a toilet commode through a window.
In Reel Life: After the brick incident, Boone picks up his rifle and goes outside to confront his attackers. The players In Reel Life: Many of the players have military haircuts, and most have fairly short hair. In Real Life: "By , almost all the boys at T. Williams had long hair, even the football players," Mark Jenkins, who attended T.
Williams in , told National Public Radio. In Reel Life: At the start of camp, the team is clearly divided by race, and there's diminishing racial conflict throughout most of the season. In Real Life: Both coaches and many players say that there was conflict, especially during training camp, but that it was because of competition for positions, not because of race.
With three teams merging into one, many who had started at their old schools would be benched. In real life, the Titans celebrated a much easier victory in the state championship game. Everyone wanted to play. I think the kids were portrayed in a less positive light than was the circumstances.
Bass agrees. We were just trying to play football. Howard admitted he made some big assumptions when writing his script. Who wants to say, 'I hated black people? In Real Life: Opinions differ on how much fighting there was -- some say a little, some say a lot.
Boone, in his DVD commentary, says, "On the real team, there'd be fights, but sometimes it'd be black vs. Because of competition for positions. Carl Turner, a running back for the Titans, told Sports Illustrated there was a lot of fighting.
In Reel Life: In training camp, and again during the season, Ray Burgess Jenkins intentionally misses blocks, because he wants his black teammates to be taken down. Gerry pronounced "Gary" Bertier Ryan Hurst chews him out for this, and later has Ray kicked off the team. He had played with them, and he related with them. In Real Life: Lastik "wasn't as big as this kid in the movie," Boone says. If anything, he's slighted as a football player in the movie, said Schneebeck.
He was fast and powerful, like no high school player I've ever seen. I'll say for the record my hair was never that long. Coach Yoast sends Pete in to replace him at linebacker. Alan's father, Fred Tim Ware , who's in the stands, yells out, "Don't you take out my son. In Real Life: That replacement was made between games, not during a game.
It was a bad scene In Reel Life: Gerry becomes friends with Julius and other black players, and his girlfriend, Emma Kate Bosworth , disapproves strongly. She refuses to shake Julius' hand, and Gerry and Emma break up early in the season because of her attitude. I don't know if Gerry's attitude and his association with his friends had anything to do with it. She told me it was because he had too many girlfriends. In Reel Life: Gerry gets into a terrible car accident before the championship game, and is paralyzed.
In Real Life: Bertier did get into an accident, but it was after the season had ended -- he was driving home from an awards banquet, and was paralyzed from the chest down.
He died March 20, In Real Life: "There were more than a few times that I felt genuinely sorry for the teams we played," said Charles Mitchell, a backup running back. The character of Emma Hoyt Kate Bosworth is purely fictional. She was created to demonstrate some of the negative traits and beliefs instilled in the youth of that time. This did not happen in real life. The film also implies that Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass might possibly be gay. This is also untrue. In fact, like Ronnie Bass, most of the other players on the team had long hair in , including the real Gerry Bertier.
During our investigation into the Remember the Titans true story, we confirmed that Titan quarterback Ronnie Bass did come from California, but portraying him as a long-haired hippie is a bit of an exaggeration. I'll say for the record my hair was never that long. Unlike what is seen in the movie, there were no protestors outside of the high school on the first day.
Williams Titans to the undefeated season chronicled in the film. Although racial tension did exist in Alexandria, Virginia in , it was significantly embellished for the movie.
For example, T. Williams High School saw the integration of black and white students when it opened in the fall of , not in Former students state that many of the racial barriers had been broken down by , when federal pressure resulted in the consolidation of three high schools, one of which was T.
In an interview with the Greenville News, the real Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass said, "They the movie had a community divided down black and white, and it really wasn't like that in Alexandria.
In reality, all of the other schools that the Titans faced during the season were integrated schools. This scene was fictionalized for the movie, as was Coach Tyrell Brett Rice. In the movie Remember the Titans , we see Coach Yoast Will Patton confront a crooked referee, telling him to call the game fairly or else he'll expose the whole plot to make the Titans lose the game, resulting in the firing of Coach Boone.
Coach Yoast also tells the ref that he'll personally see to it that the ref never works again. This incident never really happened. Sheryl wasn't as deeply intense about football as the film depicts. Sheryl ends up watching game films with Boone instead. In reality, this never happened. I wish she had spent any time with my children.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Unlike in the film, the real Sheryl Yoast had three sisters and she lived with her mother. Bill Yoast did convey to producer Jerry Bruckheimer that he wasn't happy about this. I don't like to look like I only have one daughter,'" says Yoast of his conversation with Bruckheimer.
Sheryl's three sisters, however, were okay with the storyline, which was part of the reason it made it into the film ESPN. In , the real Sheryl Yoast passed away from a heart condition that had gone undetected for years.
She was not alive when the movie was made. As reported on the '71 Titans Web Site, this did not actually happen.
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