Remember the Titans
History is written by the winners.
Plot:After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
Cast & Crew
Will Patton
Denzel Washington
Wood Harris
Ryan Hurst
Donald Faison
Craig Kirkwood
Ethan Suplee
Kip Pardue
Hayden Panettiere
Nicole Ari Parker
Kate Bosworth
Earl Poitier
Ryan Gosling
Burgess Jenkins
Neal Ghant
Production
Jerry Bruckheimer
Ronna Kress
Mike Stenson
Pat Sandston
Tom Luse
Sound
Trevor Rabin
Editing
Michael Tronick
Camera
Philippe Rousselot
Art
Anne Kuljian
Fun Facts of Movie
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There is one scene in the film where a brick is thrown through Coach Boone’s window. In real life, it was an old toilet that was thrown, but filmmakers thought that would add humor to the serious situation.
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According to Coach Herman Boone in an article published by ESPN, he really did integrate the buses before they left for football camp. Boone said “I forced them on each other, I forced them to learn each other’s culture. I forced them to be a part of each other’s lives.”
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The original script was full of profanity but Disney, in an effort to produce a good family film, asked Jerry Bruckheimer to remove all extreme profanity from the script.
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Gerry Bertier was injured in an automobile accident and paralyzed for the rest of his life from the waist down. However, this did not happen until after the 1971 regular football season was already over; he played in all thirteen games. It was also not, as depicted, due to being hit by another car: Bertier lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a utility pole; the cause was determined to be mechanical failure in the engine’s motor mount. Following his surgery, many other teammates besides Julius Campbell also used the pretense of being immediate family to see him in the hospital.
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T.C. Williams High really did go 13-0 during the 1971 season, 9 of them being shutouts.
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The real Sheryl Yoast unfortunately led a relatively short life, passing away from an undetected heart condition in 1996 at the age of 34. Sheryl had been a major supporter of her father’s coaching efforts, though by her father’s own account she was not as rabid of a football fan as the film depicts. However, because of the relationship that she had with her father, her hearty interest in sports in general, and her untimely death before this film was produced, her three sisters had no problem with Sheryl being portrayed as an only child while they were omitted from the film.
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