In “Remember the Titans,” the superstar linebacker was paralyzed before the championship, giving the team inspiration to play harder and win for their captain. [or that] we hated each other? T.C. Julius wasn’t the only teammate who was stopped by the hospital nurses while trying to visit Bertier. The cherry on top?

It’s also a wholesome Disney movie. No, there wasn’t. I will not be intimidated.” Nearly intractable, Boone overcomes a nearly impossible situation through sheer willpower and a partnership with fellow coach Bill Yoast. -'71 Titans Website. Unable to add item to List. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. In fact, team captain Gerry Bertier also had long hair.

But contrary to others who have praised Boone as a man who brought a community together, Paspatis views Boone as an abuser who should not have coached at T.C.

Heading home from a business trip in March of 1981, Bertier was struck by a drunk driver who crossed over the center line.

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Kip Pardue is best known for playing the dreamy blonde quarterback Ronnie " Sunshine " Bass in the 2000 football film " Remember the Titans." A year after Remember the Titans, Washington won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Training Day. ), when all of a sudden I’m like, “Wait…is that guy supposed to be gay?” The guy in question being Ronnie “Sunshine” Bass, the long-haired hippie from California who joins the team at training camp. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.

Gosling was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his work in 2016 musical La La Land. !, Remember the Titans, Ronnie Bass, Sunshine, Gays in History: The Sacred Band of Thebes, In Defense of Narcissism: Why Selfies are Important, Gay Dating as Explained by Pokemon: Part 1. Did you pick up on Ronnie’s queerness in the film? Comic relief when he dances (mostly to country music), Alan’s act becomes serious when he gets exposed for his lack of speed, prompting his father to jump all over Yoast for pulling him from the game. Coach Boone willingly admits he had a disciplinarian style of coaching, but that’s not to say his character wasn’t exaggerated in “Remember the Titans.” As a coach, Boone was a perfectionist — and he had a temper as well. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. Was this scene accurate, or was it yet another Hollywood attempt to add more drama to the movie? It’s true Coach Yoast was not selected to the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Sunshine Remember The Titans animated GIFs to your conversations.

Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. After completing his senior year, Bertier received awards for First Team All-Region, All-State and All-American honors.

Col. Bass makes it clear that he wants his son to play for the Titans because it is an integrated team and if “[blacks and whites] can fight a war together, they can play football together.” Like his father, Ronnie clearly has no problems with black people and this progressive attitude may extend to homosexuals as well. Stars: Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Joy Bryant… “I run six plays,” he says. “[But] she was at all the ball games, watched them, and was always the first on the field after the ball game.”.

In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Signature music and dancing seemed to become a part of the Titans as the movie progressed, with several iconic scenes involving locker room songs or choreographed dances.

The movie starts and ends with Gerry’s funeral. And while the movie certainly took some liberties with that (as nearly all do), it became a rallying point for the brotherhood that football can provide and the importance of treating everyone well. While some prejudiced individuals may have had problems with integration, they were likely a minority by 1971. “Who wants to say ‘I hated [black people]?’ Who wants to say ‘I hated white people? Williams High School. Kirkwood didn’t act long after Titans, starring in Hounded and Calendar Girls, with his last TV credit on IMDB listed on the TV series Courting Alex in 2006.