Remember the Titans the friendship.doc

Daniel 2010071112 Daniel 1Sophomore Writing 2-2 DRK SmithMay 10, 2012Remember the Titans: True Friendship Is Shining A black man becomes Titans new coach, which appears to be a great shock for the football team and the whole community. Regardless of any potential obstacle, the new coach determines to make his team a mixture of black players and white players and the summer training camp becomes his first challenge. This is the very beginning of the movie Remember the Titans. The movie has beautifully illustrated different virtues which are essential parts of ones whole life. Among those wonderful virtues, the most impressive one for me in the movie is the true friendship. True friendship is like a flower that also needs to be cared, to be protected before its blossom, which means it is not easy to have a true friendship. Therefore, in the following, I would like to talk about my feelings about the friendship that has not been split by different races, backgrounds and even age. Remember the Titans is an American film adapted from real events and has enlightened many people in different aspects since it was released in 2000. The movie tells a story about how the members of the Titans football team have worked together in spite of all kinds of obstacles and finally achieved success. In the year of 1971, some changes have happened to the T.C William High school, particularly the football team. An African-American coach named Herman Boone was appointed to be the head coach of the school football team. Being removed from his previous position, the white coach Bill Yoast had to decide whether to leave or not. Not wanting to abandon his players, Yoast decided to stay and became the defense coordinator. Since the Daniel 2football team was made up of black players and white players, the most important thing for the coaches was to ease the racial tension among the teammates at the very beginning. Therefore, after an extremely tough and effective training camp, the football team held together for the first time. However, when the team returned to school for the coming games, the whole community was making an unfriendly response to the integration. Even though, nothing could stop the Titans. Despite all the problems, the football team has reinforced their spirit and friendship with the extraordinary victories. Not only the players have built up a strong and respectable relationship with each other, but also the coaches became friends at last. Finally, the Titans became undefeated during the whole season and achieved an enormous success. After the graduation, all the members still kept on the team spirit and continued to make a difference in their future life. As we all know, racial discrimination was a severe social problem in the old America and people at that time would hardly think about a possible friendship between the black and the white. However, the skin colors didnt matter a lot in the Titans football team, particularly the two leaders, Bertier and Julius. Although these two young men disliked each other at first, they finally became really good friends just like brothers. The most important reason I suppose would be the first talk which was forced by coach Boone. It was because the first talk that these two young leaders began to know each other. With more and more communications and interactions, Bertier and Julius have come to understand each others life in a way they never Daniel 3realized before. Therefore, a well understanding weighs far more in building up the true friendship than races. In the film, the integration has enabled more and more black people to join in the football team, which meant that the players would find people who were from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. For example, the sunshine boy from California definitely possessed a different personal value or belief from other teammates who grew up in Virginia. However, this sunshine boy Ronnie soon got along with other teammates and brought them the new thought about equality as well as optimism. Besides, I have also impressed by the friendship between Louie and Rev. Although they were from different backgrounds, they became good friends when the camp started. Both of them enjoyed singing and their singing would always make the team vigorous and energetic. Whats more, they even created a unique warm-up dance for the games. In their eyes, friendship would not be bothered by different backgrounds and what really matters is the mutual respect and trust, just like what Thomas Edison has said, “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” Finally, the little girl Sheryl has made friends with coach Boone and the age gap has not affected the true friendship between them. Sheryl was Yoasts daughter and she loved her dad as well as football. At first, Sheryl did not like coach Boone for his taking up the position of head coach. However, as the season moved on, Sheryl gradually appreciated what the coach had done and enjoyed talking about football Daniel 4with Boone. Although Sheryl was much younger than coach Boone, they possess the same passion for the football and that built up the most precious friendship between them. Julius hurried in the entrance, slowed down his pace, past the teammates and noticed the sorrow around the people. He went towards to coach Boone, unwillingly to know that Gerry was badly hurt. Hugged Gerrys mother. To the patients room, tried to hide the tears and opened the door. He stayed still. Gerry was lying on bed, smiling to his brother, next to him was bunches of flowers and cards. A nurse stood beside Gerry and said, “Only kins allowed here.”. “Alice, are you blind? Dont you see the family resemblance? Thats my brother.”, said by Gerry. Julius went close to the bed, talked to Gerry, made the fist to fist brotherhood, and witnessed the rarest friendship in the world.Since the first release, the movie Remember the Titans has