Remember the Titans
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Remember the Titans is a 2000 film about the true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team in their first season as a racially integrated unit.
- Directed by Boaz Yakin and written by Gregory Allen Howard.
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[edit] Coach Boone
- We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts...and then you will run a mile. Perfection! Let's get to work.
- [In explaining the early morning run] This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today. This green field right here, painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys. Smoke and hot lead pouring right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men. I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family. You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. And maybe... I don't know, just maybe we'll learn to play this game like men.
- [in pep talk before Titans' first game] In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power! Well, that football field out there tonight, that's our universe. Let's rule it like Titans!
[edit] Dialogue
- [Gerry Bertier is livid against Julius "Big Ju" Campbell putting up a poster of the Black Power salute in their quarters]
- Gerry Bertier: [lying down on bed] I ain't looking at that for two weeks man. Take it down.
- Julius 'Big Ju' Campbell: Well, you can close your eyes for two weeks for all I care. Why don't you look at your wall and I'll look at mine.
- Bertier: [getting up] I'll look wherever I want to, and I don't wanna be looking at that for two weeks.
- Big Ju: Then you better use your x-ray vision, Superman, and look right through it, cause it ain't coming down.
- [fight breaks out after Bertier forces the poster down]
- Alan Bosley: [opens door, and shouts] FIGHT! [white and black players join in the melee]
- [Coaches Boone and Yoast argue about the harassment by racist residents]
- Coach Yoast: This is about setting a good example for our boys and the community.
- Coach Boone: I don't scratch my head 'til it itches, and I don't dance until I hear some music, I will not be intimidated. That's just the way it is.
- Yoast: You want to carry your sinful pride to your grave, that's your business, but when your sins endanger on my little girl, it becomes mine.
- Boone: My sins? You think my sins had something to do with what happened last night? I'm sorry about what happened to your daughter, I really am, but maybe you've got a small taste of what my girl has gone through. [Yoast is silent] Welcome to my life, Yoast.
- [Gerry Bertier has a word with Coach Boone after Ronnie Bass is awarded the game ball against Groveton]
- Coach Boone: What's on your mind, son?
- Gerry Bertier: I want Ray off the team, coach.
- Boone: You know my policy.
- Bertier: I do coach, and I respect it, but I know [looks at Ray] Ray missed that block on purpose. Sometimes you just got to cut a man loose.
- Boone: You're the captain. You make that decision and you support that decision.
- [Coach Yoast is beginning to realize the gravity of the refs making bad calls against the Titans even if they played within the rules]
- Coach Yoast: [to referee] You call this game fair, or I'm going to the papers. I don't care if I go down with you. But before God, I swear I'll see every last one of you thrown in jail.
- Referee: You dig your own grave.
[edit] Taglines
- History is written by the winners.
- Before they could win, they had to become one.
[edit] Cast
- Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone
- Will Patton as Coach Bill Yoast
- Wood Harris as Julius Campbell
- Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier
- Kip Pardue as Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass
- Donald Faison as Petey Jones
- Craig Kirkwood as Jerry “Rev” Harris
- Ethan Suplee as Louie Lastik
- Hayden Panettiere as Sheryl Yoast
- Nicole Ari Parker as Carol Boone
- Kate Bosworth as Emma Hoyt
- Ryan Gosling as Alan Bosley
- Earl C. Poitier as Blue Stanton
- Fintan Ryan as Ken Smithson
- Brett Rice as Coach Herb Tyrell
- Gregory Alan Williams as Coach Paul "Doc" Hines
[edit] External links
- Remember the Titans quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Remember the Titans at Rotten Tomatoes
