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re: 15 Years Later - Remember the Titans
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:07 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:07 pm to RollTide1987
well them integrating seamlessly and steam rolling all of the competition doesn't exactly make for a good movie does it?
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Posted on 9/8/15 at 2:42 pm to BilJ
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well them integrating seamlessly and steam rolling all of the competition doesn't exactly make for a good movie does it?
Then why even make it? The true story of the 1971 T.C. Williams football team does not warrant a movie. They were integrated, they had very few outward racial prejudices against each other, and they kicked arse throughout the entirety of their season. And the racial tensions in the city of Alexandria, while present, were nowhere near to the levels the movie portrays.
I was admittedly moved by the power of the story when I first saw it. Several years later, however, when I actually started doing some digging into the actual T.C. Williams, I was disappointed to find out that hardly any of it was true.
This post was edited on 9/8/15 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 9/8/15 at 4:56 pm to RollTide1987
I don't recall the movie depicting a huge amount of racial tension. Just a few yahoos and people being uncomfortable with the integration.
It was cliche, but I liked the movie.
It was cliche, but I liked the movie.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 5:00 pm to RollTide1987
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Then why even make it?
to make money?
Posted on 9/8/15 at 5:05 pm to Overbrook
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I don't recall the movie depicting a huge amount of racial tension. Just a few yahoos and people being uncomfortable with the integration.
Pretty much everyone around Gary was depicted as having issues with it. His girlfriend, best friend, and somewhat his mom. It's basically a 3rd of the movie. The training camp at Gettysburg is supposed to be powerful.
This post was edited on 9/8/15 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 9/8/15 at 5:12 pm to Dam Guide
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Finding out the school was integrated way prior and the combination of schools gave TC a completely unfair advantage ruined this movie for me.
They put like 3 schools together so they had like 2.5 times the enrollment of the next biggest school in the state. They manhandled everyone that year.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 5:36 pm to wildtigercat93
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Don't care. Love that movie
This
Posted on 9/8/15 at 5:56 pm to BilJ
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well them integrating seamlessly and steam rolling all of the competition doesn't exactly make for a good movie does it?
They should have made it about my high school. We had a couple of big racial fights where athletes were involved in the mid 70's. We didn't make the playoffs, but we had a 7-3 record. Nobody was suspended or arrested even though one guy got thrown through a window in the principal's office after the original fight had been broken up. Guess there weren't any adults involved that could be made into heroes for a movie.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 6:45 pm to RollTide1987
This movie was good but frick i had to watch it probably 200 times over the last 15 years. So damn tired of it.
Posted on 9/8/15 at 7:36 pm to RollTide1987
"If you fumble my football, I will break my foot off in your john Brown hind parts..................and THEN you will run a mile"
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