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Remember the Titans was a movie based on a true story in Alexandria, Virginia when African American football coach Herman Boone who was played by Denzel Washington was hired to guide an integrated but racially polarized high school team called the T.C. Willams Titans. Angry, stubborn and a rigid task master, Boone faced a cool reception from the team’s players as well as an awkward relationship with assistant coach Bill Yoast who was played by Will Patton, a local white coach with seniority and a tradition of winning who was bypassed for the job. As the two men learn to overcome the ignorance and bigotry and realize that they have much in common, integrity, honor and a strong work ethic: they work to transform a group of angry unfocused players into a dynamic winning team of responsible young men. In the process they also unite a divided community and make sure everyone in Virginia always remember what them and their football team has done. There were many relationships in this movie with the most important one being the new head coach, Coach Boone and the old head coach, Coach Yoast, now coach Boone’s assistant coach. These guy’s relationship went from acquaintances who did not like each other at all to friends after