| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | The Face: Jesus in Art (2001) |
| Director | Boaz Yakin |
| Writer | Gregory Allen Howard |
| Lead Actor | Denzel Washington |
| Cast | Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris |
| Genre | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport |
| Release Date | September 29, 2000 (United States) |
| Duration | 1 hour 53 minutes |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 7.8/10 |
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Remember The Titans (2000): Upbeat dramas about racial integration are rare these days. This one is slick and hard to resist. It’s based on a real life miracle high school football season when blacks and whites united in 1971 to win a Virginia state championship.
Another issue is the increasingly desperate need to win in sports. This used to be a substitute for war but is now nearly equivalent, routinely requiring military discipline and medical units on the sidelines.
Denzel Washington lends his star power to the project as Herman Boone, the intense black coach brought in (over all kinds of white resentment and hostility) when the school and team had to be integrated. Those were idealistic and openly racist times.
Boone is a taskmaster tough on both races. Beginning from ground zero (the kids won’t talk or sit next to each other), he bonds the players by running preseason training like a Marine boot camp. The union is fragile and must be preserved in the face of stress from other students and parents.
The movie doesn’t make it seem easy, but winning helps. Washington, both credible and inspiring, delivers some terrific speeches to the kids, including an improbable but impressive one in the fog of dawn at the Gettysburg battlefield.
Director Boaz Yakin gives a unique look to the football scenes few long shots to show plays develop, mostly close-ups with noisy music and crunching sounds.
The script uses many typical football movie ingredients wisely, from the displaced nice guy white coach (Will Patton) and his marvelous football crazy 10 year old daughter to the presumably dumb, hulking white lineman who loves black music to the white mothers and girlfriends who must be won over. The unlikely friendship between the alpha black and white players is nicely developed to a climactic scene that earns one large macho handkerchief.
They may joke that producer Jerry Bruckheimer, long famous for overblown junk (Coyote Ugly, Armageddon), is using this film to save his soul. That’s ok It’s never too late to use testosterone wisely. Overall, positive (if not profound) use of sports machismo to serve interracial compassion and partnership; satisfactory for adults and youth.
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