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re: Remember the Titans
Posted on 1/15/18 at 6:36 pm to beauchristopher
Posted on 1/15/18 at 6:36 pm to beauchristopher
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Doesn’t matter
It’s a great movie
I would tend to agree but there is something about lying to capitalize on racial empathy in order to earn a buck that I find insulting.
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Posted on 1/15/18 at 6:36 pm to beauchristopher
"Sunshine" is/was an executive for Disney.
This movie only exists because of him.
This movie only exists because of him.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 6:53 pm to TideSaint
Yoest’s daughter actually died in 1996. Sad shite
Posted on 1/15/18 at 6:58 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
Dang
Posted on 1/15/18 at 7:00 pm to McChowder
Okay, so it's fiction. Still an enjoyable movie. And that kind of stuff was happening, although mostly a little earlier.
This post was edited on 1/15/18 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 1/15/18 at 7:02 pm to McChowder
I mean, they make Alexandria, VA look like some backwoods country town.
This is Alexandria. That high school is about 10 minutes from the White House (with no traffic).
This is Alexandria. That high school is about 10 minutes from the White House (with no traffic).
This post was edited on 1/15/18 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 1/15/18 at 7:07 pm to McChowder
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The reason I looked it up was because I really liked the movie. It was only inspirational because it was supposed to be true. Not sure what it is now.
If it helps you any, the movie does represent what going to a public high school, and playing football, was like in the some towns in The South during the 70's. Even the part about the long haired kid, Ronnie Bass, being looked at a strange, when he moved into town was spot on. I never kissed another guy, but I was different. I had lived in a town in Mississippi where there was no "hair" code. I wore big bell bottom Levis and lots of cool tee shirts. The other white guys in the town where I graduated wore Wranglers, and what ever shirts their mom's bought, and ironed, for them. After I was grown some of my friends told me their parents didn't want them hanging around me at first.
There were fights between blacks, and whites. Most were started because black guys talked to white girls. One like that led to a kid getting thrown through our principal's plate glass window, after the fight was thought to be over. The cops came, but nobody was arrested. None of the guys got suspended. There were black, and white athletes involved. None missed a game.
Their were discussions about coaches treating black and white players differently. A lot of the things in the movie registered with me. I do truly believe that sports teams were one of the first places where guys were forced to have to get along. We had to learn to trust each other. In elementary school, the black teachers, principals, and coaches at my schools were really the only black adults I knew. I'm glad most of them were really good people.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 7:16 pm to chinese58
quote:
I never kissed another guy
Neither did the real Ronnie Bass.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 7:25 pm to McChowder
Best made up football movie alongside Rudy and Varsity Blues.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 7:50 pm to McChowder
I had to do a paper in undergrad on the instances of prejudice and discrimination in the movie for a Social influence class in the Psych department. The whole class had to analyze the events in RTT movie. I had seen the movie many times prior, but while researching for that paper, I first read about the historical inaccuracies... blew my mind.
This post was edited on 1/15/18 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 1/15/18 at 8:07 pm to memphisplaya
Had Remember the Titans not claimed to have been based on a true story, if everyone and everything in it had been a complete work of fiction, I feel like I would have a better appreciation for the movie than I do now.
I was a big fan of this movie once upon a time. It was a source of genuine inspiration for me. I really found it absolutely incredible that these guys bonded and put aside their differences due to the game of football. As a young fan of the sport I found that absolutely beautiful.
But then about ten years ago I began finding out that this movie was pretty much one big lie. There was a Herman Boone, there was a Bill Yoast, there was a Titans football team, and some of the players featured in the movie have real life counterparts. But beyond that, not much else in the movie happened in reality, and the character of Herman Boone sure didn't match who he was in reality. His players, in actuality, regarded him as a piece of shite and got him fired several years after the events portrayed in the film. It also didn't help the fact that the team only made it back to the playoffs once more during his tenure there.
I don't mind it when movies based on actual events play fast and loose with some of the facts for purposes of dramatic licensing. That's Hollywood. It's going to happen. But when you virtually fabricate an entire plot and label it a true story, I start to take issue with it.
I was a big fan of this movie once upon a time. It was a source of genuine inspiration for me. I really found it absolutely incredible that these guys bonded and put aside their differences due to the game of football. As a young fan of the sport I found that absolutely beautiful.
But then about ten years ago I began finding out that this movie was pretty much one big lie. There was a Herman Boone, there was a Bill Yoast, there was a Titans football team, and some of the players featured in the movie have real life counterparts. But beyond that, not much else in the movie happened in reality, and the character of Herman Boone sure didn't match who he was in reality. His players, in actuality, regarded him as a piece of shite and got him fired several years after the events portrayed in the film. It also didn't help the fact that the team only made it back to the playoffs once more during his tenure there.
I don't mind it when movies based on actual events play fast and loose with some of the facts for purposes of dramatic licensing. That's Hollywood. It's going to happen. But when you virtually fabricate an entire plot and label it a true story, I start to take issue with it.
This post was edited on 1/15/18 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 1/15/18 at 8:12 pm to McChowder
I liked it when I first saw it, but looking back on it, I can see myself eye rolling through most of the movie. It's way too over the top.
Posted on 1/15/18 at 8:12 pm to chinese58
They all had long hair. He never kissed another guy. Players both black and white said they were all friends at the time.
This was a very distasteful cash grab. That is really my only beef. They manufactured a feel good yarn with the stamp of "based on a true story" to sucker American audiences.......and they did it on the back of civil rights.
Now this clown is touring the country acting like Denzel and cashing in on the ignorance to the tune of 15k a speech. Tv, media and Presidents are hailing his life as some civil rights hero because of this movie. History is literally being rewritten before our eyes. What's scary is how easily it's done.
This was a very distasteful cash grab. That is really my only beef. They manufactured a feel good yarn with the stamp of "based on a true story" to sucker American audiences.......and they did it on the back of civil rights.
Now this clown is touring the country acting like Denzel and cashing in on the ignorance to the tune of 15k a speech. Tv, media and Presidents are hailing his life as some civil rights hero because of this movie. History is literally being rewritten before our eyes. What's scary is how easily it's done.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 1:05 am to tylerdurden24
quote:
Best made up football movie alongside Rudy and Varsity Blues.
Don’t forget Friday Night Lights
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