Remember the Titans' 3-act Structure!

     Remember the Titans is a very famous movie that deals with the integration of a high-school football team during the early 1970's and perfectly fits Hollywood's 3-act structure.
     The first act, also called the "introduction," starts with both the white players and the black players getting together on busses and going to a camp where they will be training for the season but at the same time being integrated. Of course all of this is being organized by Boone, a black coach with a strong character who was given a job as an assistant coach of coach Yoast. Throughout this act, the integration process seems to be unsuccessful, the players are fighting all the time and it peaks when captains Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell (representing the white and black crowd respectively) have a serious argument and the viewer cannot get an idea of where all of this is going to end at. This act lasts about 30 minutes.

     In the second act, also called the "complication,"the team starts to slowly pull it together. The players are working as a team and the sleeping arrangements of a black player with a white player are starting to become positive factors. The players now enjoy their company and the viewer can start to see the brotherhood in the team. Nonetheless, they still have to deal with a bigger problem than before, society. When they return from the camp they go through some difficult times because they realize that society is not ready to accept their integration. This peaks when some of the guys go to an eating place to grab a bite and the owner tells them that only the white guys can go in. At this point the viewer might ask himself, won't society make the players feel discouraged? Isn't this going to hurt the players' performance during the season? This part of the 3-act structure lasts approximately 45 minutes.

     In the third act, also called the "resolution," the team plays the last couple of games before the big final and everything goes amazing. In the last game, they have some trouble but they end up winning. There's a moving scene where coach Boone realizes that coach Yoast missed his chance of going into the coaches Hall of Fame and he tells him: "You've always been a Hall of Fame in my book." The team defeated all the teams during the season, but more importantly they defeated themselves in terms of racial differences. This last portion lasts about 30 minutes and is the heroic ending of this movie (typical of a 3-act structure)