...Jamie Velez Elizabeth Hughes Paul Way EDUC 268 Remember the Titans - Five Step Analysis Plot Summary In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all stateimposed segregation in public schools. This was the same year that T. C. Williams High School located in Alexander Virginia was integrated. This is the setting for the movie Remember the Titans, staring Denzel Washington who portrays Herman Boone the head coach of the Titans. Herman Boone is brought in as an assistant coach to join the all white coaching staff. When Herman Boone is appointed head coach over a wining white coach he is reluctant to accept because the same things had happened to him when a white coach had been appointed over him in South Carolina. He finally accepts the head coach position when he sees that the black residents see him as a symbol of pride and respect that is lacking in their community. The movie starts with a riot after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident underscores the racial tensions that exist as a result of the desegregation of the high school. Coach Boone has to overcome the racism within the team, the coaching staff, and the community to build a winning racially mixed football team. Leader Description In the movie we have four primary leaders: · Herman Boone, the black head coach · Bill Yoast, the white assistant coach · Gerry Bertier, the white unofficial leader of the White athletes · Julius Campbell, the black unofficial...
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...Remember The Titans Within this organization there are two main leader who take very different approaches in there method of management. Coach Boone is the head football coach, he is very strict when it comes to his players as well as his team staff, he takes a classical approach at management. Division of labor and priorities are some main concepts used in the classical approach, Boone believe’s everyone should know where they stand and who is the boss, he is focused on building a strong winning team. Coach Boone is straight forward and to the point, in the first team meeting he informs the team that, “Best player will play, color don’t matter,” and he lets the players know, “This is not a democracy, this is a dictatorship. I am the law.” This shows Boone believe in division of labor, by matching the players skills to their position, and that he leads with bureaucracy, letting it be known clearly who is in charge. Coach Yoast is the former head coach made assistant defensive coach, who choses to lead with a behavioral approach to management. Yoast tells Boone he wants his players to hold their positions even after Boone takes over, he also tells Boone he too strict at camp and that the players should be having some fun. This shows Yoast believe’s that the players will preform better for the team if they are satisfied with the position they have, and if they are having fun while playing and practicing. Taking a behavioral approach to management, Yoast have confidence that...
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...In the movie “Remember the Titans”, Coach Boone, a Southern black head football coach, played by Denzel Washington, delivers an unforgettable speech to his team about the racial tensions in society that are breaking up his team by making them wake up at breaking dawn to go for a run into the woods while attending football camp, The clip starts off where Coach Boone tells them they are going to all follow the rest of the coaches as well as himself through the woods and if they are to get lost, not to go back to camp, to go straight home. After taking them across rivers and tress they come to a stop where Coach Boone asks them “anybody knows what this place is” (Remember the Titans) and then tells them that they are standing where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought. He begins with a brief history of what happened at that time, by stating, “50,000 men died on this field, fighting the same fight we are still fighting amongst ourselves today” (Remember the Titans). He references this battle to them because they are aware of the event and know exactly how it is to live in a segregated state, where race differences is at its highest point and is not only affecting their life but their performance as a team in football, since their team makes up both blacks and whites. He tries to reach out to them by bringing out their heritage and how even though the battle has ended the terrible hatred and fights amongst themselves is still happening. As the Battle of Gettysburg becomes the basis...
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...This paper will apply Bruce Wayne Tuckman’s development model of group dynamics to the film “Remember the Titans”. Each of the four stages of development as defined by Tuckman will be clearly marked with a start time and a finish time (1965). Within each stage of development the team will also be rated using Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model II (SLMII). The team will be give a developmental level based to the team’s follower readiness. Lastly both coaches style of coaching will also be rated on the SLMII. Forming The first stage of Tuckman’s model in the film occurs when the black athletes are in the gymnasium ready to meet Coach Herman Boone (11:00). In this interaction the athletes have come together for the first time, they are unsure of their roles on the team, they are unsure of what to expect from each other, and they are unsure of what to expect from their new coach, Herman Boone. The newly formed group’s tentative attitude about roles is shown when Boone questions Thomas “Petey” Jones about whether or not he likes football (11:20). The uncertainty of roles is also shown when the old head football coach William Yoast disrupts Boone’s meeting with the black athletes by entering in with the white players (13:25). Coach Yoast does not know how this confrontation between him and Coach Boone will play out. The white players in this scene are equally unsure as they come into gym. The end of this phase occurs when the team is shown walking into...
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...Darian Greenbaum K. Baker English 1100 13 November 2012 Left Side, Strong Side Remember the Titans is a film directed by Boaz Yakin bases in 1971 when discrimination, prejudice, and racism was still a way of life. Due to a court order, three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia were forced to integrate their students and faculty for the first time. Consequently, Coach Bill Yoast, a prominent, white member of the community and longtime head coach of the T.C. Williams High School football team, is asked to step down. Herman Boone is appointed to replace him as the school's first black faculty member and head football coach. The new coach faces many challenges; the newly integrated team is full of players (both black and white) who have little trust or respect for one another. Boone is determined, however, to put a winning team on the field. Against the odds, Boone helps his team over-come doubt and misconceptions of their coach, and each other, as they become an undefeated team eager to partake in the championship, united. Remember the Titans shows that people can put aside their individual needs and wants for the greater good of the team and the community. The film loudly conveys that building inter-racial friendships, one by one, then group by group, can transform a community. The relationship between Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell highly resembles, at first, the tension amongst whites and blacks during the 1970’s. Gerry, the white captain of the football...
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...Interpersonal Conflict in Remember the Titans I choose the movie – remember the titans. It is an inspirational movie, making my blood boiling from the beginning to the end and teaching us that we are all equal no matter what race you are. It talks about not only the games, but also racial conflicts, friendship and the significance of life. The story goes like that: in the early 1970s, two schools in Alexandria Virginia integrate forming T.C. Williams High School. The Caucasian head coach of the Titans is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina. Tensions arise when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of these tensions are eased during the two-week training camp in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When players return to Alexandria the players find the city in turmoil due to the forced desegregation of the high school. Through facing a lot of objections and questions, the players and the coaches still choose to unify, depend on and trust each other. As the season progresses the team's success causes the community to accept the changes. After the Titans' perfect season, the team and the city are closer than ever. There are many interpersonal conflicts in the movie, such as the racial conflict between the black and the white, the conflict between Coach Herman Boone and Coach Bill Yoast, the conflict between Gerry Bertier and his girlfriend Emma and so on. Because of different cultural background, conflicts arise between...
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...Remember the Titans definitely has a few stereotypes represented in the movie. To start with the most obvious one, the community was your stereotypical, violent, southern, segregated community that was common during the 1970s. A southern community sets the scene for racial prejudice, and violent outbursts. The southern individuals even had the southern way of speaking, which we in the 21st century would consider to be 'red neck,' helps connote racial prejudice as well. Moving more specifically towards individual stereotypes, blacks are immediately seen as 'less fit' in all aspects including the football team. This is exemplified when the white, defensive coach consoles the black players after getting harshly yelled at by the black, head coach....
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...beliefs, assumptions, or feelings because they didn’t know each other and had not worked together. Coach Boone’s values were clear from the beginning; race was not to be considered. Those who work hard enough and do what is expected will play football. Those who do not, will sit on the bench. The same was expected from the coaching staff; if they did not want to be there, they were free to go. Coach Boone was fine finding another staff member who was willing to fill the role. He displayed his values at all times to the coaching staff and the players and never swerved from that standard. Coach Yoast’s values were not so consistent. He started the movie angry that he had proven himself as a winning coach over the years yet didn’t get the head coaching position. To add to this, he had lost the head coaching position to a black man who offered Yoast a position as the defensive coordinator. Yoast expressed frustration about working under the newly appointed black head coach but Boone made it clear that they would be alongside each other. Yoast’s original plans were to quit to find a coaching position at another school, but his loyalty to his players, many of whom he had coached since they were little boys, became the deciding factor for his decision to stay. He also voiced frustration about his players losing their positions to black players. It was apparent that Coach Yoast’s values reflected someone who cares a great deal about his men and was willing to fight for them...
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...1. American Sport Movies There are few countries in the world in which sports permeate national life to the degree that it does in the United States. Sports are a big part of the fabric of American life. The centrality of sports in American life is amply reflected in the American cinema. For decades movie makers have successfully mined sports to produce some of the most inspiring, poignant, exciting and memorable American movies ever made. The genre of ‘Sport Movies’ established in the Fifties and the Sixties. At the very beginning it was hard to see it as an independent genre because there was a lot of mixture. There have been propaganda movies as well as comedies, dramas, gangster movies or even westerns combined with some sport scenes. So the movie industry defined three categories of sport movies. Category 1: movies in which the main part of the narration is about sport or an athlete Category 2: movies which tell the life story of an athlete Category 3: movies which use sport scenes to describe a special milieu In addition to that there are a lot of movies of another genre which use sport scenes to dramatise the story or to create a good suspense. The first sport movies were all about the so called American Myth of victory and glory. Fair competitions and the better athletes defeating the weaken. The fascination of sport inspiring the people was used to lure the public. Then in the eighties and nineties there have been made a lot of biographical movies...
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...Leadership 4400 Remember the Titans Leadership Film Assessment La’Paul Blackmon July 18, 2014 Coach Boone states the following during his first team meeting. “This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. If you survive camp, you will be on the team. If you survive.” According to John Potter: How Situational Leadership Works, the leadership style that coach Boone used was directing. The directing leadership style typically involves taking over a challenging situation and applying specific knowledge and experience to right the ship. For example, if your business is struggling to establish its brand, a skilled marketing manager can be brought in to develop a marketing strategy to create brand awareness. A directing-type manager will establish clear goals and objectives for his work area as well as his staff, although staff members have some latitude as to the process used to meet the goals. Which means The directing leadership style typically involves taking over a challenging situation and applying specific knowledge and experience to right the ship. For example, if your business is struggling to establish its brand, a skilled marketing manager can be brought in to develop a marketing strategy to create brand awareness. A directing-type manager will establish clear goals and objectives for his work area as well as his staff, although staff members have some latitude as to the process used to meet the goals. As a player on Coach Boone’s team I would feel scared...
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...Matt Purcell Mrs. Rakas Speech 16 June 16, 2012 Analysis: Coach Boone Speech The movie “Remember the Titans” is set in the early 1970’s in Virginia at a time when racism was most prevalent. The students are sent to the same high school mandated by federal law to integrate. Coach Boone, an African American coach, is hired to coach the football team over a successful white coach. Tensions grew high between the different races and the players did not respect each other. Coach Boone wakes up the players early and takes them on a jog through the woods to where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought and delivers an impactful speech to his football team. The speech was aimed to motivate the players to come together and respect one another. Coach Boone uses many different speech concepts that motivate his team to come together. Coach Boone makes many powerful verbal gestures to motivate his football team. He says, “ If we don’t come together… we, too, will be destroyed”. Coach Boone uses concrete details and strong imagery to get a picture into the players mind. Coach Boone is trying to show them that Americans lost their lives fighting for their rights and if they don’t come together they will be destroyed just like those men. He also points out that, “ This green field right ere was painted red. Bubbling with blood of young boys. Smoke and hot lead pouring right through”. Here the coach uses more concrete details and try to appeal to the emotions of the players. The audience was...
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...In 1964 segregation was banned in all public places with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However the government may be able to eliminate racism in the law, but racism within the people cannot be eliminated by the government itself. Remember the Titans was directed by Boaz Yakin in 2000. The movie takes place in 1971 in Alexandria Virginia. Two separate schools with separate races, are forced to integrate by the school board and form one school called T.C. Williams. The main social issue portrayed in this movie is inequality for African Americans. Remember the Titans effectively portrays the social issue of social inequality in the means of prejudice and discrimination throughout the movie. The movies opening scene is a race riot sparked...
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...‘Remember the Titans’ Leadership in Organizations 12th December of 2013 Miguel Nogueira Rodrigues 150110034 Remember the Titans is a film that tells the story about a period of history in the United States, when the differences between black and white people were much assumed. The black people wanted to feel respected and not discriminated by the whites, and because of that they wanted the same rights as the others. In this story, for the first time, all people could attend the same high school, and this change created many problems between students and their families. The Titans were a football team, but they were always losing the games, and win the championship was unreachable for them. So, the school board decide to get a new team coach, with the capabilities to turn the results around, and make them a team of winners. The problem was that when they discover that the new coach, Herman Boone, was black. From that day, he had to win the respect of the players that were both black and white, and get a new environment, to make them a united team, capable of overcome the differences and difficulties between the players. And to achieve that Coach Boone ask the previous coach, Coach Yoast, to help him doing that. In this film, is very well presented the example of a leader, and how the cultural differences shape the beliefs, attitudes, opinions, preferences and behaviours of those who lead and of the ones that made the choice to follow the coach. In this case despite...
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...Leadership The movie Remember the Titans provides an excellent study of leadership principles and challenges in the imperfect environment typical in real life leadership scenarios. Coach Boone knew he would face a touch year of coaching/teaching his team. He pushed his team to their limits and forces good relationships between players regardless of their race, realizing to be able to forward towards a goal, everyone has to believe in and commit to a common purpose. Even though Coach Boone is a charismatic leader with a brutal, military-style approach to coaching by breaking down the players and then rebuilding them as a team. Where Yoast was more laid back and conservative and felt that Boone was pushing the players too hard. The clash between the two coaches represents what can happen when two very different leaders attempt to achieve the same goal using different approaches in the work place. Once the coaches were able to develop a positive relationship, the players were able to work together to achieve the common goal. Coach Boone used both power and authority with his position as Head Coach to get his way, the white players did not immediately accept Boone’s authority. Many of them threaten to quit the team, parents put pressure on the assistant coach staying they would move their families to another school. However Coach Boone had to use power and mind games to force the players to tolerate each other until he could help them look beyond the racial conflict. While many...
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...Remember the Titans Character Analysis Note: read case study document first Character | Description | Significant Events | Boone | Head coach | * Marched with Martin Luther King * Had teammates mix up bus seating going to training camp, they also had to bunk with whoever they sat with on the bus * Had the boys jog to Gettysburg, talked about the battle and similarities to them today | Pete Jones | Team member | * Yoast put him in the game despite not being under his group after Boone took him out | Louis Lastick | Team member – neutral, just wanted to fit in | * Talked about his roommate * Joined in on “yo mama” jokes * Lacked self-worth * Always neutral between blacks and whites, saw no differences | Gerry Bertier | Team Captain – became best friends with his roommate Julius | * Started a fight with his roommate * Made a connection with Julius during a heart to heart talk * Embraced his new team and awareness for discrimination * Stood up to Emma * Fired Ray from the team * Car accident | Julius | Team member – best friends with Gerry | * Made Gerry realize he wasn’t as much as a fair leader as he thought | Yoast | Coach | * Went against Coach Boone * Found out about the plan to fired Boone but did not support it * Made nice with Boone at the last of it | Cheryl | Coach Yoast’s daughter | * Told her Dad he had nothing to be proud of at the last game. Making him realize he needed to change his attitude...
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