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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[http://deadspin.com/remember-the-titans-is-a-lie-and-this-man-wants-you-to-1609473834 If this Deadspin article]] is anything to go by, the only thing ''Remember the Titans'' got right was that the Alexandria team was unquestionably good, and that Boone was an assistant coach. Almost everything else was altered to fit the screenplay writer's vision, which clashed numerous times with the actual events. For starters, Denzel Washington's portrayal of Boone was far more [[AdaptationalHeroism heroic and idealized than the actual man]], whose only egalitarian qualities is that he treated all his players equally bad (one critic claimed Washington's version of Boone was a cartoon). The championship game was a CurbStompBattle instead of a classic nail biter, and the Titans's success had more to do with a three-school merger hitting the lottery with its talent pool than any coaching on Boone's part. The racial turmoil portrayed in the movie was also exaggerated, and the town had no real hate crimes towards Boone's family, like the brick throwing incident halfway through the movie. The real life Boone more-or-less took advantage of the movie white washing his terrible behavior (which eventually led to the team mutinying against him) and mimicked Washington's portrayal of him to others as his public persona, which he used for various "inspirational" speaking engagements, which often paid him between 10-15K per visit (including one by Barack Obama in 2007!). When taking all the half-truths together, this puts the movie's tagling, "history is written by the winners", in an hilariously ironic light.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[http://deadspin.com/remember-the-titans-is-a-lie-and-this-man-wants-you-to-1609473834 If this Deadspin article]] is anything to go by, the only thing ''Remember the Titans'' got right was that the Alexandria team was unquestionably good, and that Boone was an assistant coach. Almost everything else was altered to fit the screenplay writer's vision, which clashed numerous times with the actual events. For starters, Denzel Washington's portrayal of Boone was far more [[AdaptationalHeroism heroic and idealized than the actual man]], whose only egalitarian qualities is that he treated all of his players equally bad terrible (one critic claimed Washington's version of Boone was a cartoon). The championship game was a CurbStompBattle instead of a classic nail biter, and the Titans's success had more to do with a three-school merger hitting the lottery with its talent pool than any coaching on Boone's part. The racial turmoil and hate crimes portrayed in the movie was also very exaggerated, and the town had no real hate crimes animosity towards Boone's family, like the brick throwing incident halfway through the movie. family. The real life Boone more-or-less took advantage of the movie white washing his terrible behavior (which eventually led to the team mutinying against him) and mimicked Washington's portrayal of him to others as for his public persona, which he used for various "inspirational" speaking engagements, engagements for the past decade, which often paid him between 10-15K per visit (including one by Barack Obama in 2007!). When taking all the half-truths together, this puts the movie's tagling, "history is written by the winners", in an hilariously ironic light.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The credits contain clips of what the Titans do after the season captured by the movie.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[http://deadspin.com/remember-the-titans-is-a-lie-and-this-man-wants-you-to-1609473834 If this Deadspin article]] is anything to go by, the only thing ''Remember the Titans'' got right was that the Alexandria team was unquestionably good, and that Boone was an assistant coach. Almost everything else was altered to fit the screenplay writer's vision, which clashed numerous times with the actual events. For starters, Denzel Washington's portrayal of Boone was far more [[AdaptationalHeroism heroic and idealized than the actual man]], whose only egalitarian qualities is that he treated all his players equally bad (one critic claimed Washington's version of Boone was a cartoon). The championship game was a CurbStompBattle instead of a classic nail biter, and the Titans's success had more to do with a three-school merger hitting the lottery with its talent pool than any coaching on Boone's part. The racial turmoil portrayed in the movie was also exaggerated, and the town had no real hate crimes towards Boone's family, like the brick throwing incident halfway through the movie. The real life Boone more-or-less took advantage of the movie white washing his terrible behavior (which eventually led to the team mutinying against him) and mimicked Washington's portrayal of him to others as his public persona, which he used for various "inspirational" speaking engagements, which often paid him between 10-15K per visit (including one by Barack Obama in 2007!). When taking all the half-truths together, this puts the movie's tagling, "history is written by the winners", in an hilariously ironic light.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The credits contain clips of what the Titans do after the season captured by the movie. Also, the racial turmoil portrayed in the movie was exaggerated, for the most part, as the school
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* WomenAreWiser: Played with. There are mothers who clearly against racial integration, women are among the people who make nasty comments about Coach Boone when he first moves into the neighborhood, and Gary's girlfriend Emma is racist (at least until her HeelFaceTurn late in the movie). On the other hand, though, the white girls at T.C. Williams seem much more accepting of black people than their male counterparts: a group of three white students fawning over Sunshine talk to Petey without a problem and even try to keep their boyfriends from beating him up (albeit unsuccessfully), and the integrated cheerleading squad seems to lack the problems the football team has. Teen Girls are Wiser, perhaps?
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Yoast stopping the rigging of the semifinals results in him being banned from the Hall of Fame and being declared a "race traitor" by his former peers.]]
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-->''Now I may be a mean cuss. But I'm the same mean cuss with everybody out there on that football field.''
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** Also within Disney itself. With the box office success of ''Titans'', it signaled the end of Disney's goofy kid-centric sports films like ''The Mighty Ducks'' series and ushered in a wave of serious sports biopics aimed at older audiences, such as ''{{Miracle}}'', ''Invincible'', ''The Greatest Game Ever Played'', and the aforementioned ''Glory Road''.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Sunshine gets alot of accusations because of his hair and being from California. He then goes on to {{Troll}} his teammates by kissing Bertier and refusing to give Petey a straight answer when he asks.
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Social? No, I do believe that the colonel, who is a soldier mind you, probably fought in the Vietnam War, a war in which both whites and blacks fought in the same units, so he\'s probably talking about that.
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* MilitaryBrat: Louie Lastik and Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass. Ronnie's father, for instance, wants his son to play for the titans because "if they can fight a (social) war together, they can play football together."
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* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: A victory celebration suddenly and abrutly leads to Gerry's car wreck and crippling.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: Sheryl Yoast, Coach Yoast's daughter. The real Sheryl was one of ''four'' daughters Coach Yoast had, but they were okay with it.
** Tragically, the real Sheryl Yoast passed away just before the movie's release.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Subverted. The T.C. Williams Titans, were, on paper, supposed to be the best high school team in Virginia. They were essentially an already very strong team that was adding dozens of African-American players, which very few other Virginia teams had at the time. Their struggles came not from their abilities or lack of talent, but from the racial tension faced from both outside and within. They ended up overcoming that tension and living up to their potential as one of the top high school football teams in the nation.
** Tragically, the real Sheryl Yoast passed away just before the movie's release.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Subverted. The T.C. Williams Titans, were, on paper, supposed to be the best high school team in Virginia. They were essentially an already very strong team that was adding dozens of African-American players, which very few other Virginia teams had at the time. Their struggles came not from their abilities or lack of talent, but from the racial tension faced from both outside and within. They ended up overcoming that tension and living up to their potential as one of the top high school football teams in the nation.
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* CompositeCharacter: Sheryl Yoast, Coach Yoast's daughter. The real Sheryl was one of ''four'' daughters Coach Yoast had, but they were okay with it.
**it. Tragically, the real Sheryl Yoast passed away just before the movie's release.
* DavidVersusGoliath:Subverted.Averted. The T.C. Williams Titans, were, on paper, supposed to be the best high school team in Virginia. They were essentially an already very strong team that was adding dozens of African-American players, which very few other Virginia teams had at the time. Their struggles came not from their abilities or lack of talent, but from the racial tension faced from both outside and within. They ended up overcoming that tension and living up to their potential as one of the top high school football teams in the nation.
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* NothingButHits: Late 60s/early 70s classic rock, but done well. When things look bad for the Titans, the film's original score (by ex-Yes member Trevor Rabin) is used. When things begin to go their way, classic rock begins playing.
* MiracleRally
* MoodWhiplash
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* MilitaryBrat: Louie Lastik and Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass.
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MiracleRally: A case of PlayingWithATrope. TheTeam starts to fall apart during a game due to racial tension but they still win without one these, but several players recognize that they need to come together for the next one or they will lose for sure. So they stage one of these between games.
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MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: A victory celebration suddenly and abrutly leads to Gerry's car wreck and crippling.]]
* NothingButHits: Late 60s/early 70s classicrock, but rock and done well. When things look bad for the Titans, the film's original score (by ex-Yes member Trevor Rabin) is used. When things begin to go their way, classic rock begins playing.
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* OpposingSportsTeam: Played straight and subverted: The Titans' semi-finals game puts them against an openly racist coach and biased referees. The opposing team in their final game, on the other hand, show no racial prejudices and are just very good. The coach even [[spoiler: comes out on the field after they lose to shake Boone's hand.]]
* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: As part of Coach Boone's TrainingFromHell.
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* OpposingSportsTeam: Played straight and subverted: With: The Titans' semi-finals game puts them against an openly racist coach and biased referees. The opposing team in their final game, on the other hand, show no racial prejudices and are just very good. The coach even [[spoiler: comes out on the field after they lose to shake Boone's hand.]]
* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: As part of Coach Boone'sTrainingFromHell.TrainingFromHell, anyone that misses a pass or a block assignment has to run a mile. Anyone that fumbles the ball gets a GroinAttack from Boon himself ''and then'' they run a mile.
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* SadlyMythtaken: The speech in the page quote, where Boone tries to inspire the players to follow the example of their mythical namesakes, who were "greater even than the Gods". He's apparently unaware that, in GreekMythology, the Titans were actually the ''predecessors'' of the Gods who were eventually overthrown by them. And the leader of the Titans, Kronos, was a murderous ragehead who was killed by his son after he tried to cannibalize his own children. He's not exactly the best role model for a team captain.
** Although it is a bit of a GeniusBonus that the greek Titans were overthrown because of a betrayal, just like both Petey and (nearly) Boone.
* StartsWithTheirFuneral: The film opens and closes with the rest of the characters attending [[spoiler:Gerry's]] funeral, although we don't actually find out whose funeral it is until the end of the film.
* StereotypeFlip: When the police officer pulls up next to Julius walking through a white neighborhood only to congratulate him on a well-played game and wish him luck. Not what you'd expect from a Virginia police officer in the early 70's.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sheryl Yoast and Coach Boone's daughter Nicky (her response to Sheryl's offer to play ball with her: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I just did my nails]]"). Subverted in that they never really become friends.
* TrainingFromHell: Boone's football camp was rough, but it was less the physical stress than the racial integration he forced everyone to be involved with.
** Not that the physical part was a cakewalk either.
** Although it is a bit of a GeniusBonus that the greek Titans were overthrown because of a betrayal, just like both Petey and (nearly) Boone.
* StartsWithTheirFuneral: The film opens and closes with the rest of the characters attending [[spoiler:Gerry's]] funeral, although we don't actually find out whose funeral it is until the end of the film.
* StereotypeFlip: When the police officer pulls up next to Julius walking through a white neighborhood only to congratulate him on a well-played game and wish him luck. Not what you'd expect from a Virginia police officer in the early 70's.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sheryl Yoast and Coach Boone's daughter Nicky (her response to Sheryl's offer to play ball with her: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I just did my nails]]"). Subverted in that they never really become friends.
* TrainingFromHell: Boone's football camp was rough, but it was less the physical stress than the racial integration he forced everyone to be involved with.
** Not that the physical part was a cakewalk either.
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* SadlyMythtaken: The speech in the page quote, where Boone tries to inspire the players to follow the example of their mythical namesakes, who were "greater even than the Gods". He's apparently unaware that, in GreekMythology, the Titans were actually the ''predecessors'' of the Gods who were eventually overthrown by them. And them, and the leader of the Titans, Kronos, was a murderous ragehead who was killed by his son after he tried to cannibalize his own children. He's not exactly the best role model for a team captain.
**captain. Although it is a bit of a GeniusBonus the part about that the greek Titans were being overthrown because of a betrayal, just like both Petey and (nearly) Boone.
Boone, is a GeniusBonus.
* StartsWithTheirFuneral: The film opens and closes with the rest of the characters attending [[spoiler:Gerry's]] funeral, although we don'tactually find out whose funeral it is until the end of the film.
* StereotypeFlip: When the police officer pulls up next to Julius walking through a white neighborhood only to congratulate him on a well-played game and wish him luck.Not It's not what you'd expect from a Virginia police officer in the early 70's.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sheryl Yoast and Coach Boone's daughter Nicky (her response to Sheryl's offer to play ball with her: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I just did my nails]]").Subverted in that While they never really become friends.
don't became best friends, they ''do'' get along better.
* TrainingFromHell: Boone's football camp was rough, but it was less the physical stress than the racial integration he forced everyone to be involvedwith.
** Notwith. However, this is not to say that the physical part was a cakewalk either.cakewalk.
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* StartsWithTheirFuneral: The film opens and closes with the rest of the characters attending [[spoiler:Gerry's]] funeral, although we don't
* StereotypeFlip: When the police officer pulls up next to Julius walking through a white neighborhood only to congratulate him on a well-played game and wish him luck.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sheryl Yoast and Coach Boone's daughter Nicky (her response to Sheryl's offer to play ball with her: "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I just did my nails]]").
* TrainingFromHell: Boone's football camp was rough, but it was less the physical stress than the racial integration he forced everyone to be involved
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* YourMom: Done as an informal team building gag.
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* UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC: T. C. Williams is in Alexandria, VA, right across the Potomac from DC.
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A 2000 film BasedOnATrueStory about a Virginia school that experiences an enforced racial integration in 1971, merging the black students with a white school and neither side being particularly happy about the arrangement. Both schools had a proud football team and now they are forced to come together and play as one team. In an effort to placate critics, they hire a new coach, Herman Boone (DenzelWashington), to replace the beloved coach of the white team, Bill Yoast (Will Patton). Boone disliked being hired over Yoast (having experienced some of the same racial politics in the past), but pleads with him to stay on as the defensive coach despite being qualified to take on head coach at nearly any school of his choosing.
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A 2000 film BasedOnATrueStory about a Northern Virginia school that experiences an enforced racial integration in 1971, merging the black students with a white school and neither side being particularly happy about the arrangement. Both schools had a proud football team and now they are forced to come together and play as one team. In an effort to placate critics, they hire a new coach, Herman Boone (DenzelWashington), to replace the beloved coach of the white team, Bill Yoast (Will Patton). Boone disliked being hired over Yoast (having experienced some of the same racial politics in the past), but pleads with him to stay on as the defensive coach despite being qualified to take on head coach at nearly any school of his choosing.
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* OnlySaneMan: Louis starts out this way despite his "dumb jock" persona, as initially he's the only guy who just wants to play football and doesn't care what his teammates' look like.
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* RousingSpeech: Several by both Coaches, such as the page quote.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The movie pulls no punches about the racial tensions between blacks and whites at the time.
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* MilitaryBrat: Louie Lastik and Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass.
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* CheatersNeverProsper: During one of the games, the cheaters aren't either ''team'', but the ''referees'': the game was rigged by an old boys' club, who were trying to make the Titans lose, which would result (persuant to his contract) in Boone being fired and Yoast getting his head coach position back. This was arranged entirely without Yoast's involvement or acceptance, and about halfway through the game, Yoast talks to the head referee and demands that he call the game fairly, or the papers will know all about the arrangement before the night is out. The Titans end up winning.
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* AmericanFootball: The sport that the Titans play.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Sunshine gets alot of accusations because of his hair and being from California. He then goes on to {{Troll}} his teammates by kissing Bertier and refusing to give Petey a straight answer when he asks.
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* FireForgedFriends: The Titans. They went through two weeks of TrainingFromHell led to them developing a strong bond.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Boone actually calls Yoast out on going easier on the black players.
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--> "This is not a democracy. This is a dictatorship. I am the law."
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* SadlyMythtaken: The speech in the page quote, where Boone tries to inspire the players to follow the example of their mythical namesakes, who were "greater even than the Gods". He's apparently unaware that, in GreekMythology, the Titans were actually the ''predecessors'' of the Gods who were eventually overthrown by them. And the leader of the Titans, Kronos, was a murderous ragehead who was killed by his son after he tried to cannibalize his own children. He's not exactly the best role model for a team captain.
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->''"Tonight we've got Hayfield. Like all the other schools in this conference, they're all white. They don't have to worry about race. We do. let me tell you somthing: you don't let anyone come between us. Nothing tears us apart. In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power. Well that football field out there, that's our universe. Let's rule it like titans."''
-->-- '''Coach Herman Boone'''
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Boone and Yoast lead the new team to training camp not far from Gettysburg and Boone enforces an integration policy that all of his players must abide by, the team will not separate into black and white "cliques." The various team members are fleshed out, with one of the strongest friendships form between the team captain Gerry and Julius, one of the leaders of the black side. The team eventually sees past color but once the season starts they find things to not be as easy outside the game. Despite this, they earn respect on the field and that unifies the town better than anything else.
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!This movie provides examples of:
* AmericanFootball: The sport that the Titans play.
* BashBrothers: After initially butting heads, Gerry and Julius develop a tight friendship and formidable on-field presence.
* BigEater: Implied. A restaurant puts up a sign that says, "Titans Eat Free". Followed by a montage of the Titans dining, followed by the same restaurant erasing the "free" part of the sign.
* BigFun: Louis, who is the first white player to get along with the black players.
* BigGame
* ChekhovsSkill: Minor instance - At one point, Sunshine is seen practicing Tai Chi outside school. In the next game they play, he uses the inertia of an incoming tackle to knock the opposing player on his back.
* CompositeCharacter: Sheryl Yoast, Coach Yoast's daughter. The real Sheryl was one of ''four'' daughters Coach Yoast had, but they were okay with it.
** Tragically, the real Sheryl Yoast passed away just before the movie's release.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Subverted. The T.C. Williams Titans, were, on paper, supposed to be the best high school team in Virginia. They were essentially an already very strong team that was adding dozens of African-American players, which very few other Virginia teams had at the time. Their struggles came not from their abilities or lack of talent, but from the racial tension faced from both outside and within. They ended up overcoming that tension and living up to their potential as one of the top high school football teams in the nation.
* DumbMuscle: This is what Louis considers himself to be, until Coach Boone encourages him to seek a college education.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Invoked. Coach Boone got all the team members to work together by playing the part of the "Big Bad Coach."
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When we first meet Sunshine, he has long, flowing hair. After he joins the Titans, Coach Boone has him cut his hair to a more manageable length.
* FollowTheLeader: The success of this film is probably right next to ''Film/{{Hoosiers}}'' in terms of "influential sports movie." ''Glory Road'', ''We Are Marshall'', ''Film/CoachCarter'' and ''Film/TheBlindSide'' are right in the same category.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Gerry and Julius friendship becomes their most important relationship in the film. Gerry, for instance, clashes with his own mother over it.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: The coach of the Titans' opponent in the state finals.]]
* MiracleRally
* MoodWhiplash
* NothingButHits: Late 60s/early 70s classic rock, but done well. When things look bad for the Titans, the film's original score (by ex-Yes member Trevor Rabin) is used. When things begin to go their way, classic rock begins playing.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Played straight and subverted: The Titans' semi-finals game puts them against an openly racist coach and biased referees. The opposing team in their final game, on the other hand, show no racial prejudices and are just very good. The coach even [[spoiler: comes out on the field after they lose to shake Boone's hand.]]
* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: As part of Coach Boone's TrainingFromHell.
* PlayingAgainstType: Produced by ''JerryBruckheimer'', of all people.
* PrettyBoy: Sunshine. He got wolf whistles upon entering camp and is rather popular with the girls in school.
* StartsWithTheirFuneral: The film opens and closes with the rest of the characters attending [[spoiler:Gerry's]] funeral, although we don't actually find out whose funeral it is until the end of the film.
* StereotypeFlip: When the police officer pulls up next to Julius walking through a white neighborhood only to congratulate him on a well-played game and wish him luck. Not what you'd expect from a Virginia police officer in the early 70's.
* TrainingFromHell: Boone's football camp was rough, but it was less the physical stress than the racial integration he forced everyone to be involved with.
** Not that the physical part was a cakewalk either.
-->'''Coach Boone:''' We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts... [[RuleOfThree and then you will run a mile.]] Perfection. Let's go to work.
* TrueCompanions:
-->''(Julius has just showed up to visit Gerry in his hospital room'')\\
'''Nurse''': Only kin's allowed in here.\\
'''Gerry''': Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* WhosYourDaddy: Coach Boone towards Gerry, in order to make clear to Gerry who is in charge after Gerry tries to dictate to him how the team should be organized. What's worse, he makes Gerry say that Coach Boone is his daddy, in front of his own parents. Then again he did bring it on himself.
* YourMom: Done as an informal team building gag.
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->''"Tonight we've got Hayfield. Like all the other schools in this conference, they're all white. They don't have to worry about race. We do. let me tell you somthing: you don't let anyone come between us. Nothing tears us apart. In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power. Well that football field out there, that's our universe. Let's rule it like titans."''
-->-- '''Coach Herman Boone'''
A 2000 film BasedOnATrueStory about a Virginia school that experiences an enforced racial integration in 1971, merging the black students with a white school and neither side being particularly happy about the arrangement. Both schools had a proud football team and now they are forced to come together and play as one team. In an effort to placate critics, they hire a new coach, Herman Boone (DenzelWashington), to replace the beloved coach of the white team, Bill Yoast (Will Patton). Boone disliked being hired over Yoast (having experienced some of the same racial politics in the past), but pleads with him to stay on as the defensive coach despite being qualified to take on head coach at nearly any school of his choosing.
Boone and Yoast lead the new team to training camp not far from Gettysburg and Boone enforces an integration policy that all of his players must abide by, the team will not separate into black and white "cliques." The various team members are fleshed out, with one of the strongest friendships form between the team captain Gerry and Julius, one of the leaders of the black side. The team eventually sees past color but once the season starts they find things to not be as easy outside the game. Despite this, they earn respect on the field and that unifies the town better than anything else.
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!This movie provides examples of:
* AmericanFootball: The sport that the Titans play.
* BashBrothers: After initially butting heads, Gerry and Julius develop a tight friendship and formidable on-field presence.
* BigEater: Implied. A restaurant puts up a sign that says, "Titans Eat Free". Followed by a montage of the Titans dining, followed by the same restaurant erasing the "free" part of the sign.
* BigFun: Louis, who is the first white player to get along with the black players.
* BigGame
* ChekhovsSkill: Minor instance - At one point, Sunshine is seen practicing Tai Chi outside school. In the next game they play, he uses the inertia of an incoming tackle to knock the opposing player on his back.
* CompositeCharacter: Sheryl Yoast, Coach Yoast's daughter. The real Sheryl was one of ''four'' daughters Coach Yoast had, but they were okay with it.
** Tragically, the real Sheryl Yoast passed away just before the movie's release.
* DavidVersusGoliath: Subverted. The T.C. Williams Titans, were, on paper, supposed to be the best high school team in Virginia. They were essentially an already very strong team that was adding dozens of African-American players, which very few other Virginia teams had at the time. Their struggles came not from their abilities or lack of talent, but from the racial tension faced from both outside and within. They ended up overcoming that tension and living up to their potential as one of the top high school football teams in the nation.
* DumbMuscle: This is what Louis considers himself to be, until Coach Boone encourages him to seek a college education.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Invoked. Coach Boone got all the team members to work together by playing the part of the "Big Bad Coach."
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When we first meet Sunshine, he has long, flowing hair. After he joins the Titans, Coach Boone has him cut his hair to a more manageable length.
* FollowTheLeader: The success of this film is probably right next to ''Film/{{Hoosiers}}'' in terms of "influential sports movie." ''Glory Road'', ''We Are Marshall'', ''Film/CoachCarter'' and ''Film/TheBlindSide'' are right in the same category.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Gerry and Julius friendship becomes their most important relationship in the film. Gerry, for instance, clashes with his own mother over it.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: The coach of the Titans' opponent in the state finals.]]
* MiracleRally
* MoodWhiplash
* NothingButHits: Late 60s/early 70s classic rock, but done well. When things look bad for the Titans, the film's original score (by ex-Yes member Trevor Rabin) is used. When things begin to go their way, classic rock begins playing.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Played straight and subverted: The Titans' semi-finals game puts them against an openly racist coach and biased referees. The opposing team in their final game, on the other hand, show no racial prejudices and are just very good. The coach even [[spoiler: comes out on the field after they lose to shake Boone's hand.]]
* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: As part of Coach Boone's TrainingFromHell.
* PlayingAgainstType: Produced by ''JerryBruckheimer'', of all people.
* PrettyBoy: Sunshine. He got wolf whistles upon entering camp and is rather popular with the girls in school.
* StartsWithTheirFuneral: The film opens and closes with the rest of the characters attending [[spoiler:Gerry's]] funeral, although we don't actually find out whose funeral it is until the end of the film.
* StereotypeFlip: When the police officer pulls up next to Julius walking through a white neighborhood only to congratulate him on a well-played game and wish him luck. Not what you'd expect from a Virginia police officer in the early 70's.
* TrainingFromHell: Boone's football camp was rough, but it was less the physical stress than the racial integration he forced everyone to be involved with.
** Not that the physical part was a cakewalk either.
-->'''Coach Boone:''' We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts... [[RuleOfThree and then you will run a mile.]] Perfection. Let's go to work.
* TrueCompanions:
-->''(Julius has just showed up to visit Gerry in his hospital room'')\\
'''Nurse''': Only kin's allowed in here.\\
'''Gerry''': Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
* WhosYourDaddy: Coach Boone towards Gerry, in order to make clear to Gerry who is in charge after Gerry tries to dictate to him how the team should be organized. What's worse, he makes Gerry say that Coach Boone is his daddy, in front of his own parents. Then again he did bring it on himself.
* YourMom: Done as an informal team building gag.
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