As the story, Remember the Titans unfolds, it becomes evident that the use of flashbacks is the root of the story. The civil rights act had just been recently passed, but one of the previous racist states, Virginia, has a hard time coping. It takes place in T. C. Williams high school during 1971, where this all white high school became an integrated school. As the plot roles on, The football team had been forced to inter mingle with the new black transfer students. Adding onto the heat, the head coach of the team had been replaced by a black coach from North Carolina. Throughout the constant tussles and side eyeing, most of the cast reminisced the time before the civil rights act, where blacks were equal, but separate. The focus of the film is to show the new social norm coming to light and becoming a “brutal” reality. Beyond …show more content…
Some may say that the protagonist would be Coach Boon, while the antagonist would be Coach Yoast’s assistant, Ray. Although this may be right, their characters hold symbolism for The Civil Rights act, and the Jim Crow Laws. As the new black Head Coach arrives, his plans to bring together the new football team come into full circle. Seeing as the white team began to butt heads against the black team, Coach Boon decided to integrate his players onto buses (before their trip to their summer football camp), it only being separated by offensive and defensive. During the duration of the movie, The Head Coach had slowly intermingled the black and white players together; soon enough, each opposing side had seen each other as