Background Remember the Titans was released in 2000. The film
was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The
movie is based on the true story of Herman Boone (Denzel
Washington) who was appointed head football coach at Williams High
School in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1971, the first year of racial
integration, Coach Boone had to inspire the youth to forget the
color of their skin in order to become friends, a team, and
champions.Jerry BruckheimerBoaz Yakin
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Thesis In Remember the Titans, Coach Boone utilizes the
rhetorical appeals of logos, pathos, and ethos to inspire his
football players to expunge their prejudices and hatred in order to
become a team.
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Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the
same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today.
Logos
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Just as the endless rows of crosses in the picture of
Gettysburg today appeals to the audiences sense of logic, so does
Coach Boones statement to his football players. Fifty thousand is
an immense number used for the purpose of illuminating the tragedy
of the battle of Gettysburg. Coach Boone is implying that the
battle, fought between blacks and whites, is the same battle that
millions were fighting in 1971. Coach Boone appeals to his players
logic when he reminds them that Fifty thousand men died right here
on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting
among ourselves today.
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This green field right here, painted red, bubblin' with the
blood of young boys. Pathos
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After appealing to the logic of the boys, Boone is hoping to
extract some emotion from his players by emphasizing the horror of
fighting a war because of race, which is what the players of his
team are currently doing. The red of the boiling blood on top of a
green field appeals to everyone as archetypes; red symbolizes
violence as green symbolizes peace. Coach Boone invokes the power
of these colors to juxtapose the way they are acting (violent) with
the way it could be (peaceful) if they would all give up their
prejudices toward the opposite race. Not only does Coach use logos,
he also appeals to the players emotions with pathos. He
emphatically emphasizes This green field right here, painted red,
bubblin' with the blood of young boys to create an emotionally
impactful image.
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Ethos Listen to their souls, men. I killed my brother with
malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family. You listen, and you
take a lesson from the dead.
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Here Coach Boone emphasizes the voices of the soldiers who died
at Gettysburg, which was fought during the Civil War. With this
historical allusion, Boone solidifies his point with the moral
backing of the soldiers who suffered or perhaps regretted their
role in the war. Though necessary, the Civil War was the most
horrendous domestic war in the history of Americamany killed their
own family members. Coach Boone quotes what a soldier might have
said after the war in order for the boys to take a lesson from the
dead: the violence needs to end. He compares the brothers of the
Civil War to all the young men brothers of a team accentuating the
fact that they are all men, and they should all be fighting on the
same side. Coach Boone removes himself from the argument when he
asks the players to Listen to their souls, men. I killed my brother
with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family. You listen,
and you take a lesson from the dead.
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RHETORIC PROJECT RUBRIC 20 pts researched background
information speaker, time period/context, intended audience, etc.
30 pts 3 visuals illustrating the 3 quotes quotes should be
somewhere on your visual 30 pts commentary 10 pts works cited On a
slide or taped on the back of your poster 10 pts presentation/
creativity
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Rhetoric Project Reminders Today is your LAST work day project
is due FRIDAY (no excuses)! Thesis needs to be approved before you
put it on/in your visual. Work on commentary. Explain the visual
and connect it to the purpose of the speech. Put it all together
today. If electronic, email it to me by your class Friday AND bring
it on a flash drive.