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Evaluation Essay Some films are so incredibly bad, so pointless and stupid, that, watching them, you find your lower jaw dropping to new depths of despair. By an amazing fluke, the year 2000 saw one movie about American football that caught the attention of many. That movie was Remember the Titans. It is unbelievable and unforgettable. Director Boaz Yakin decided to recreate the true story of Remember the Titans. Yakin wanted to show how segregation was in the 1970s. The movie is set in Virginia in the early '70s with school segregation forcing together black and white students as a members of a football team into what proves to be a volatile mix. Remember the Titans has a powerful message that addressed the issues of racism. Racism is overcome by the efforts and open minds of a few that lead the way …show more content…

Coach Boone takes the team to the cemetery where the battle of Gettysburg was fought. Here the verbal technique of the “Team Talk” is used when Boone gathers the students in front of him and says “if we don’t come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will fall.” A high angle shot is used to portray Coach Boone as important to the destiny and success of the team. He is made superior and this adds weight to the message in his words. These two techniques are combined with the use of a sound technique: the Titans Theme music. This is a symphony piece which plays in other triumphant moments throughout the movie. The combination of this symphony, the dialogue and the high-angle shot up to Coach Boone evokes powerful emotions in the audience as they experience the gravity of the decision that the young players have to make: Unite and succeed as a team or remain suspicious of each other and fall-apart. So when in the next scene they finally come together as a team, we celebrate along with them – we feel the emotion of their success at setting differences aside to create a strong

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