S. Kerr) make up the legendary team. The action shots make this roster of actors look like championship basketball players. In the game against Iowa, center David Lattin (Schin A.S. Kerr) makes numerous blocks and puts points on the board for Texas Western College with his signature slam dunks. In the same game against Iowa, Bobby Joe Hill (Derek Luke) drives hard to the basket. As he spins around the Iowa center. His layup puts Texas Western College up by one point. Time runs out. Texas Western wins the game. At the NCAA tournament-Midwest finals, Texas Western College plays Kansas. Willie "Scoops" Cager (Damaine Radcliff) comes into the game. With only seconds left in regulation time, he slam dunks the ball to send the game into overtime.
Jon Voight who plays Adolph Rupp, Kentucky's successful coach, brilliantly creates a character that is seen rather than heard. In the final moments of the 1966 NCAA championship game, his face reflects his deep feelings as he realizes what's happening. Speaking of the Texas Western Miners, he reminds his own team, "This is a special team. If we fail to rise to the occasion it will be a historic loss.".
"Glory Road" presents many dramatic themes. However, none are as stirring as the personal adjustments and confrontations that the players go through during the course of the season. Willie Cager (Damaine Radcliff) loves the game of basketball. His desire to play is hampered by heart condition that threatens his life. Nevil Shed (Al Shearer) learns how to overcome his own self-doubt and play the game with strength. The entire team is welded together as they face racial hate and bigotry. Food is thrown at them. They are spit upon, beaten in restrooms, and shouted at with racial slurs. .
There is an incident in which the player's motel rooms are destroyed. On the walls, racial graffiti is painted in red, as to symbolize blood. It forces coach Haskins to check the team out of the motel and drive through the night to Seattle, Washington.
I believe "Remember the Titans" fits the perfect description of a great movie. ... "Remember the Titans" deals with a high school recently integrated. ... "Remember the Titans" gives its audience such a range of emotion. ... "Remember the Titans" is such a great movie. ... I give "Remember the Titans" a ten!...
"Remember the Titans- is a Must See "Remember the Titans- is a must see sports drama, dealing with issues of racial injustice and integrated teamwork. ... The film received a three star rating in USA Today's article, Titans' Team Clobbers Cliché's On, Off Field,"" by Susan Wloszczyna. ... Furthermore, being based on a true story, "Remember the Titans- brings a strong realization that our American society has not always functioned as one. ...
Remember Those Titans Remember those Titans. ... The Titans showed how they could come together as one team and be the best in the game, even though everyone else wanted them to remain apart. The Titans did something that could not have been done by anyone else in that day and time. ... The Titans chose not to see color, but it took some time for them to get past that. ...
Movies such as "Remember the Titans" have morals that may change the perspectives of their audiences towards life. Remember the Titans was set in the 1970's in Virginia, which at that time, Virginia itself and the entire United States were still suffering from racial segregation. ... These players joined forces together and integrated their talents to form "the Titans." ... The movie "Remember the Titans" made me realize that there is really no "I" in a team. ...
Remember The Titans Remember The Titans may be one of the most influential movies ever made. ... After the Titans came out victorious, Yoast lost his spot in the Hall of Fame. ... After the Titans started the season off at 7-0 the entire city started giving them positive reinforcement. ... Remember the Titans is an amazing movie. ... This team obtained glory...
REMEMBER THE TITANS In Boaz Yakin's Remember the Titans, football becomes the force that is strong enough to break through the wall of prejudice. ... In Remember the Titans, the issue of prejudice is handled by an entire town, and the battle with prejudice is fought not by grown men, but high school students. ... The team in Remember the Titans did succeed in going undefeated. The team in Remember the Titans did win their championship. ... Remember the Titans is a true story, and the greatest stories are always true....
The Titans must then struggle to win the championship and lead their community towards racial unification. That's when the Titans go on the tear that has kept them remembered in Virginia high school. ... Still, this town is tough on the Titans; a group of young men who quickly learn that colour is irrelevant on the football field. ... Final Thought: Remember the Titans tells a story of how these complications are resolved. ... As each point is made about football being a small part of life, the Titans reveal what can accomplish when races cooperate. ...
Before the Voyager encounters, astronomers suspected that Titan might have an atmosphere. ... Titan's air is predominantly made up of nitrogen with other hydrocarbon elements which give Titan its orange hue. ... Titan's surface temperature appears to be about -178°C (-289F). ... Smith's team made a total 50 images of Titan last month in their program, a project to search for small scale features in Titan's lower atmosphere and surface. ... About three weeks before Cassini's first flyby of Titan, the spacecraft is to release the European Space Agency's Huygen...
It was a cheerless day, unlike the ones that we, the Titans had shared together. ... Gerry was the reason for the Titans" unity. ... It was this distinguished characteristic in him that inspired the Titans to win their thirteenth game of the season, to come in second runner-up in the nationals. ... Williams High School or Virginia for that matter, before any of us reach for hate, we would always remember the Titans and the captain of 1971, Gerry Bertier. ... As for me, I would always remember Gerry as a loyal teammate, an esteemed captain, a true friend and most importantly, a brother....