Blog project #2: Movie, Remember The Titians

Topic #4 -- Media Product Review

Movie-Remember The Titians

After searching through many good movies out there and trying to figure out what movie fits me and this post best, I decided to choose the all time great movie Remember The Titians. I chose this movie because its part of my childhood along with something everyone can relate to in the movie world and real life experiences. It stands out because it brings anyone who watches it closer. From racial issues at a young age, to the excitement of Friday night football games, along with showing that no matter what, family is family. 

The subject of this blog post is to express the feelings this movie brings out to people from all colors and races along with the great true story the movie follows. The director Boaz Yakin and producer Jerry Bruckheimer did a amazing job picking a perfect cast that most people either knew or could relate to in some way not just characters no one knew like Denzel Washington, and Bill Patton as the two main characters. Just these two actors alone have racked up many famous awards. Denzel him self has earned three Golden Globes, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards. Both these actors are just few of many greats in this film and most all of them from this movie have been in multiple other films and TV shows that are big around the U.S. According to Deadspin.com, the movie Remember The Titians has grossed over $478 million dollars in sales and made in 2008 a topping $115 million in box office sales alone. 
The movie starts out as a school coming together to combine whites and blacks into one school while also hiring a first ever black head high school football coach. The movie goes on to progress the fight against society hating on the head coach, Denzel Washington (aka Herman Boone in the movie) on being a black coach of a football team along with having black players when in this day in age wasn't the right picture from an outside perspective. The Titans battle all white schools trying to make a point that race has no play in how good a school is and that everyone is equal. As the race ware goes on so does a tragic accident that leaves the leading caption of the paralyzed from the waist down! (To find out more I suggest u watch the movie you will not be disappointed!)

This American sports drama produced by Mr. Jerry Buckheimer does not connect to his other work as he has done many great movies and TV such as; Top Gun, The Rock, CSI Miami, Cold Case, Black hawk down, and many more. What all these are similar to is great films. All of his work really connects with the public and allow people of all ages to attract their full attention to his show and movies. The genres he does are all different and place at the top at all levels. From sports dramas, to great action drama films, he has covered more distance in movie/TV show genres than I could name. 

In the past century, people have been trying to express the important's of equality. This movie touches on it in the perfect manner. It's important because it shows both sides of white/black people and shows them becoming together when they both are at need. This is reflected heavily in our culture targets the audience of the youth and young adults. Racism shouldn't matter and should be left alone after all the years of hate from whites to blacks. It should not matter who's what, especially on a football field. In the movie there is a moment of example where during a practice Garry, a white young man who leads the strong side of the defense yells out strong side, this is then reciprocated from the second defensive caption of the defense Julius, who is a black young man leading the weak side. They go back and forth as Gary yells "strong side" to Julius. Julius then yells back after looking at him in a puzzled look "left side". In this moment it is obvious and proud that these two after always butting heads finally show a sense of pride to be with one another on the same team wearing the same jersey but different color skin. 

According to professional critics of rottentomatoes.com, they gave the movie a pretty decent score of 73% out of 100%. Richard Schickel of rotten explains that "the film is surely in the right place". He goes on to say, "its tough to try and bring slavery into play in a movie of sports but they did a job well enough to win me over". To me this film is strong in many aspects or mostly all. The movie isn't filled with action of blood and fists but it strong climbs up and up to the point where you watch to see what happens next. I agree with rotten critics in that the movie is good end of story. Personally, it will always be one of my favorite movies till the end of time. The standard of the movie is up there with the work the producer does, clearly like I stated before the numbers it did was quit well. One weak point in this movie that has my attention is that the movie doesn't show enough background of where everyone is from and who they really are. In my opinion I would have liked to know the background more of the main characters and what role they grew up in and how they managed to all meet at the same school to intergrade.

In my generation social media is what everyone uses to create a fan bas or help show who you are and what success you have earned in your life. For older people and the generation many years above, they didn't grow up or have to use that platform to show who they truly are or how much they are worth. People say nothing really nothing but good critiques about the movie and main characters along with the production team of the movie. Since the movie has came out it has done good numbers and is projected to for years to come. Since the movie came out quit a few years ago there is less critiques and haters because during the time of its release there really wasn't social media. I have since perchance the movie many times on other platforms from the first time seeing it many years ago as a kid. My brother who is close to age to me really enjoys this movie, along with my mother and father. Being a athletic family and having all the males in my family retired from the high school football days, it becomes almost a bonding family night to watch the movie together and to look back on the times we all played football.

In conclusion, from my knowledge of knowing the movie from not looking into it I never realized the amount of time and energy was put in to make a movie of this impact. What I learned from reading over comments and critiques is that movies are picked apart piece by piece. You cant hide from the critiques! But the movie has deeper meaning even than what I thought. Blacks and whites shouldn't have to be recognized in different categories, were all the same. This movie helped my family an I become closer just by spending 113 minutes of our time watching a movie. This movie will forever be something I enjoy watching and I know you will to. 

Links of websites:
https://deadspin.com/remember-the-titans-is-a-lie-and-this-man-wants-you-to-1609473834https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_the_Titans

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/remember_the_titans/