光辉岁月

About Remember The Titans

It was an encouraging movie based on a real story happened in 1971. In 1971, a court order forces three high schools (two white, and one African-American), to integrate their student bodies and faculties for the first time. Because of that, Bill Yoast, the longtime head-coach in T.C. Williams high school football team, had to quit his job or became an assistant coach. The team added a half of black players and needed a black coach. As a result, Herman Boone, a distinctive black coach, became the head-coach of this football team, and Mr. Yoast became an assistant coach. Firstly, the white and black guys always fought against each other, but later, after a special and extremely tough camp, they started to be a real team. They were harmonious and extraordinary in that time, but the amicable relationship between the white and black players seemed hard to be accepted by other people. Finally, they used their perfect grade, the state championship, to be a soul leader of the integration.
        I like this film and I don’t know which part I like most exactly. I have to say I like the whole film. I like Yoast’s little girl named Sheryl. She loved her dad so much that she kicked the man who came to tell her father somebody would take his job. She was so lovely.~~ I am fond of Coach Yoast, because he gave up the opportunity of entering the Hall of Fame in order to get the game victory. He was always playing a key role in the games, especially when the Titans were almost defeated, like showing up the judge’s cheating. I love Coach Boon, too. Though he was kind of mean to his players, he was mean equally to everybody. He was confident, even a little bit vain. When he first met Mr. Yoast, he said he came to win and he would be the head-coach. But he was really great, because he did it. I also enjoy the parts of team members. Julius and Gerry, they could lead the whole team well and played an important part in the bond of two sides. Besides, I was impressed so much on their firm friendship. Petey and Lewis were also appreciated by me because they made the team vigorous and energetic. What’s more, I like their special style of entering the football field, I like their making fun on each other, I like their dancing and singing and so on. In a word, everybody in this team was great and the whole film made me warm-blooded!
        “Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother.” It was said by Gerry. At that time he got to be paralyzed for a car accident and Julies walked into the patience room while the nurse said “only kin’s allowed in here.” Gerry called Julies brother and then smiled. That segment totally touched me. Gerry was a great football player and was the captain. Being paralyzed was considered as a huge disaster. It meant the end of his football life. But what surprised me most was that he was even able to play jokes. He said the family resemblance existed between him and Julies. He took Julies as a brother. It reminded me of the terrible situation when this two guys firstly met. They were quite indifferent and felt disgust to each other. At that time, no one was able to imagine their relationship later. Because Julies was a black people, Gerry’s mother banned Gerry to go out with him, also, Gerry’s friends, including his girlfriend, were opposed to his new black friends. In that period, discrimination was still rooted in some white people. So in this aspect, the friendship between Gerry and Julies was quite amazing. I really wish they could “get old and get fat together.”
        
Here are some examples of how they changed.
        When Coach Boone first visited Coach Yoast, little Sheryl opened the door and rejected him immediately. But later, after getting along with him for a long time, she started to compromise. She even went to Coach Boone’s house talking about the football team with him.
        When the first day Coach Boone’s family moved there, the neighborhoods discriminated him as if the black family would disgust them. But later, Titans won several games, and Coach Boone won a lot of reputation. They gave a warm applause to Coach Boone when he turned back home. They started to respect this family.
        Gerry’s girlfriend was one of the impressive roles in this film. At the beginning, when Gerry told her that he had some black friends, she was astonished because in her mind, color was strong enough to divide friends. She thought they were living in a totally different world and they would never cross the line determined by color. However, she finally realized that it was her own fault. The society was changing. In the last game, she also came to the football field to cheer the Titans.
        What can be learnt?
As far as I am concerned, the most important thing can be learnt from the organized sports is the cooperation. In the last game, the State Championship Game, when Titans was going to lose, Julies said to Coach Boone, “I am not perfect, and I will never be. None of us are, but the team is perfect. ” Football is a team work, it needs everyone’s effort. There are many different positions in games. In this movie, it has the quarterback, halfback, running back, wide receiver and so on. Someone belong to offence and someone belong to defence. Having a good cooperation is the key to win. The other thing can learn is, being confident. In a team game, every player must have confidence in teammates and also in himself. And the last one is, never give up. A dream will not end until you stop trying. In a game, every second should be grasped till the ending whistles. Don’t give up, and you will succeed.

Yvette.

黑教练上来颇有些政治强人的感觉，铁腕执教，乱世用重典，打压一切不服。白教练默默奉献，以柔克刚。整部电影刚柔并济，直接感动地我一塌糊涂。让我血脉喷张，迫不及待的去拼搏战斗。同时又心里暖洋洋的，说不出的舒服。
从小在东北长大，我们这的满族人鲜族人都基本汉化了，几乎没有区别，也就不存在什么隔膜。现在在四川读书，校园里有藏族人新疆人，我发现就完全不一样了。大家很少接触，有意识的避开。寝室一开始还是混着住，后来渐渐地新疆人搬到一起，藏族人搬到一起。大家由不熟悉到陌生，中间穿插几个小误会，就升级成敌意和恐惧。由小及大，全国都这风气，民族融合成了问题。谁都没认真的尝试去了解对方，顽固的坚守着由几次道听途说获得的信息而建立起的观念。就应该有几个人或组织站出来，牵个头，让大家走到一起认识熟悉放下成见。而不是面子上找几个人唱党的政策亚克西，私下里再花大力气维稳。

从先起就喜欢Denzel Washington这个奥斯卡影帝了,这样一部反种族歧视的影片感觉就是为他量身定做的一样,情节励志感人,实在是一部难得的励志影片,看后真是非常激励人
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影片的情节简单，却富有深意。它并不是一部单纯的运动类影片，而是通过一位黑人教练的事迹来反映人类对平等与自由的憧憬。
70年代，赫尔曼-布恩(Herman Boone)曾以自己独特的方式为反对种族歧视、调节种族矛盾作出过重要贡献，他也因此被奉为一位黑人英雄。当然相比较马丁-路德金，赫尔曼-布恩并不是一个家喻户晓的名字，时至今日更少会有人记得他，但是弗吉尼亚人都记住了Titan队的名字，因为它是黑白市民的共同骄傲，这大概正是该片起名为Remember the Titans的原因吧。

   每个人都有生命中值得铭记的阶段吗?属于我们的光辉岁月是什么？一生中有这么一段让你全力以赴，热血沸腾的时光，就已是上天给你的最大的恩赐。不管这条路你是否会继续走下去，也不管你会不会继续这一段辉煌，不管将来你会变成怎样的人，有怎样的前途，以何种形式结束。你会铭记泰坦教给你的：团结、拼搏、宽容、公正！你会记得白色的泰瑞黑色的朱利不分彼此，记得他们说：我们要一起变老变胖。