Remember the Titans
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Short description
In 1971, the small town of Alexandria, Virginia, is ordered to combine its white and black high schools, and the football program becomes a flashpoint. Herman Boone, a Black coach, is brought in to lead the Titans, taking over from Bill Yoast, the white coach who built the team's winning record. The players are divided by race and resentful of the change, and Boone's demanding manner clashes with Yoast's local standing. Yoast stays on as an assistant, and the two men must find a way to work together if the season is to amount to anything.
Boaz Yakin directed the film, his second feature after Fresh (1994). Gregory Allen Howard wrote the screenplay, and Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Oman produced. Denzel Washington plays Boone, with Will Patton as Yoast, and Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald Faison and Craig Kirkwood among the players.
Released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film cost about 30 million dollars and took in roughly 137 million worldwide, a strong return. On IMDb it holds 7.8 from around 248,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 7.7 from about 3,000 votes, and critics gave it 6.9 from 138 reviews, so audiences have rated it a little more warmly than reviewers did. Its large vote counts point to a lasting following.
What's left behind the scenes
- The initial script contained a lot of profanity, but the management of Walt Disney Pictures asked Jerry Bruckheimer to remove it all in order to create a normal film for family viewing.
- Filming of "Remember the Titans," which began on October 3, 1999, wrapped on December 14 of the same year and took place in several cities in the states of Georgia and Virginia.
- The state championship game started at noon on Saturday, not in the evening as depicted in the film.
- Coach Boone's team won the championship game with a score of 27-0.
- The film was shot in Georgia, not in Virginia, where the real events that served as its basis took place. This is why tourists who came to Alexandria to see the T.C. Williams school, which the film is about, were consistently disappointed.
- Ray Buddz, Alan Bosley, Fred Bosley, and Coach Tyrell are fictional characters. The filmmakers introduced them into the plot to add extra drama to the film.
- The T.C. Williams school was depicted by one of the schools in DeKalb County, Georgia. The school did not have its own stadium, so the game scenes were filmed at the stadiums of other schools and a local college.
- Victoria Stadium, where the final match took place, was demolished in July 2006. In the 1970s, it served as a stadium for several schools in the district at once.
- To make the film as authentic as possible, Boaz Yakin invited real referees from the Atlanta Football Association to join the cast. They played the unscrupulous judges.
- In one episode of the film, a brick flies through the window of Coach Herman Boone's house. In reality, an old toilet was thrown through Boone's window, but the filmmakers felt that this would add an unnecessary humorous touch to the serious situation, so they replaced the toilet with a brick.
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