Describe an important place or situation in the text.

Explain how visual and/or verbal features were used to help you understand why
this place or situation was important in the text.

“Remember The Titans” directed by Boaz Yakin is a film set in the early seventies,
focusing on racial issues in Alexandria, Southern America, expressing the changes
from segregation to integration throughout the Alexandria community. This essay
describes and explains an important place in the film. You don’t need this type of
sentence – get straight into the next one. The important place I have chosen is the
scene when Herman Boone (The Black coach) takes his football team on a run
through the woods to the Gettysburg battlefield at 3.00a.m. This scene is important
because it represents a change in the film.

The scene occurs when Herman Boone (the black coach) decides to teach the team an
important lesson; he takes them on a run through the woods, for hours, finally to end
up at the Gettysburg battlefield/graveyard. The scene shows Boone silhouetted in
front of the graveyard, showing the importance of the old gravestones behind him,
surrounded by fog, the sun slightly rising. The team all sweaty and tired watching
him, “Listen to their souls” he wants them to understand how those men felt, how
they wasted their lives over something that did not matter and to make them relate to
those men “If we don’t come together right now on the hallowed ground, we too will
be destroyed”. Boone explains to the team the history of the graveyard, how hatred
destroyed his family. He tells the story of the civil war (1840), 50 000 men lost their
lives; the green field was painted red with blood. A great description of the place

To understand the importance of this scene the camera shots used were focused on
Boone and the graveyard. Unlike the majority of the movie there is no ambient
(background) noise in this scene, instead There there was silence, except for Boone’s
voice, expressing the importance of what he was saying. There is a low angle shot
(use specific named shots) In the shot Boone is made to look strong and powerful
because the camera shot goes from the full view of him with the graveyard, to the
camera angle looking up to just his upper half making him appear bigger and stronger.
The scene is also understood to be important because it represents real history of the
civil war (1840), backing up the whole movie. This scene represents a turning point in
the movie, after this point the black and whites in the team finally start to get along
and the beginning of integration for their community (Alabama, Southern America)
occurs. After Boones talk solemn orchestral music plays, giving the viewer the
understanding that all is well. You must focus on specific techniques to achieve in this
standard.

The town of Alabama goes through many changes, the teams’ school is the first to
become an integrated school, creating many struggles for the team along the way but
they get through it all. The two main characters that in the beginning hated each other
now call each other brothers. Boone’s speech was my favorite part of the film because
it really got the team to understand. Again you need to make mention of specific
techniques in your summary

You have a great understanding of the film, but must focus on both parts of the
question.

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