The Color of the Pigskin

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2004)

Remember the Titans is a story of a small town football team which is ran by Bill Yoast (Will Patton) that is one day taken away from him, after leading his team to fifteen winning seasons. The team is taken over by Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) who is a black man from out of town. The town is upset by the school boards decision to let Coach Boone take over the team, because he has a different color of skin than them. Coach Boone makes all of the players go off to camp and room with a person of different race. There ends up being conflict between the players. When the boys return home from camp, they are all getting along and end up having one of the greatest seasons that this small town has ever seen.
The main idea in this story is how the players and both coaches overcame their differences. This movie lets us see how much rivalry blacks and whites had back in the 1970s. The Titans helped to show that if we just give somebody a chance it may all work out in the end. There was no black and white by the end of this movie. They were all the same, no matter who they were. This movie shows how we can overcome anything in life as long as we put our minds to it.
The thing that really touched me was the way these two different races were so against each other; but when it came down to a game of football, the boys could all learn to get along with one another. This movie is very intense and makes viewers stay interested in it with all of its action and drama. This one single football team changed the opinions of all of the townspeople. I have watched this movie more than once and would recommend it to anybody.