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Download Marxist Analysis of Racial Discrimination in 'Remember the Titans' (2000) and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Business Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! 1 CAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Remember the Titans is an American sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The plot was conceived from a screenplay written by Gregory Allen Howard. Boaz Yakin was born in New York City in 1966 and after graduating from high school, Yakin opted to study filmmaking at New York University College. He soon moved on to New York University and made his first deal for a screenplay at the age of 19. After finishing school, Yakin worked in the film business helping to develop projects for several companies, and the saw his first screenplay reach the screen in 1989 when The Punisher was released. Wanting to take on more personal material, Yakin drew from his experiences growing up in New York's inner city for his next screenplay, Fresh. Yakin opted to direct his screenplay for Fresh himself, and the film won critical raves, earning the Filmmaker's Trophy at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. Yakin went back to his youth for inspiration on his next project; while his parents were non-practicing Jews, they enrolled their son in an Orthodox private school when he was five, and his experience with the Chassidic community informed his screenplay for A Price Above Rubies, a 2 more difficult project which did not fare quite as well with critics or audiences as Fresh. Yakin rebounded with his next assignment, which was his first film that he directed but did not write; Remember the Titans was a major box- office success, and moved him to the upper tier of bankable Hollywood talent. This film featured by Denzel Washington as Herman Boone and Will Patton as Bill Yoast, two coaches which work together in the team football school even they are in different color. Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell played by Ryan Hurst and Wood Harris as the athletes of the foolball team. The main characters and the central story in this movie are non-fictional because the story of the movie is real but there are some names are changed to protect the characters. The story began in Alexandria, Virginia in the year 1971. In 1971, at the desegregated T. C. Williams High School, African American head coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is hired to lead the school's football team. Coach Boone takes the coaching position from current head coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton), who has been nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame, and who also later decides to move on to other coaching opportunities. In a show of respect, Boone offers an assistant coordinator coaching position to Yoast. Yoast at first refuses Boone's offer, but is then tempted to join after the white players pledge to boycott the team if he doesn't participate. Ken Smithson also promises to leave if he doesn't coach, Ken Smithson (Fintan Ryan) being an integral part to the team. Smithson's co- 5 And the last, the racism that becomes the main issue of the film is reflected well. Here, the writer interested in analyzing the movie about the racial discrimination to black people. The writer uses Marxist Approach to analyze the movie. Based on the reason above, the researcher intends to conduct a study on Marxist Approach with the title: THE RACIAL DISCRIMANATION IN BOAZ YAKIN’S REMEMBER THE TITAN (2000) MOVIE: A MARXIST APPROACH B. Literature Review The movie, Remember The Titan is a popular literary work. The theme brought makes the people are interested you know it. Nur Nazaruddin has conducted a research entitled “AMERICAN FOOTBALL AS A MEANS TO CONVEY ABOLISHMENT OF RACISM AS SEEN IN BOAZ YAKIN'S REMEMBER THE TITANS”. This research is about the importance of American Football for American people and the correlation between racism and American football to the abolishment of racism in American society. The source of data in this research is a Boaz Yakin’s film entitled “Remember the Titans (2000)”, while the main data are collected from the shot composition, lighting, sound including the intonation of the dialogues, the story itself, dialogues, narration, characterizations including the character’s gestures and facial expressions, and the interpreted phenomena as the components which construct the film which are relevant to 6 answer the research question. The supporting data of this research are the script, articles, books and all kind of information related to the subject matter. The objectives of the research are to portray how “Remember the Titans” shows the role of American football in the abolishment of racism between black and white people as a means to abolish racism between Black and White people in America. This research is aimed to provide a significant contribution to the understanding at American society; culture and experience related to the sport activities, in this case American Football in the racism issue represented in American movie. In order to achieve the objective, the researcher employs four relevant approaches. The approaches that are used are historical approach, sociological approach, semiotic film approach and social psychological approach. Those approaches are used in the analysis phase to find out the answer of research question. In conducting the research, the researcher analyzes the data and then answers the research question using the approaches. The research question of this research is “How does Remember the Titans portray the role of American Football in abolishment of racism between Black and White people in America?” In order to focus on solving the research question, the researcher divides the research question into two, they are: “how does American football play the role as a catalyst in abolishment of racism between Black and White people as reflected in Remember the Titans?” and “how does the social interaction change as a result of abolishment of racism among Black and White people in American 7 society as reflected in Remember the Titans?”. Analysis of the data leads the researcher to conclude that American Football plays a role as a catalyst of interaction between Black and White people in Alexandria, Virginia. American Football finally brings a good social interaction in the society as a result of abolishment of racism among Black and White people in American society. American football in this film is portrayed as a means to convey abolishment of racism among the Black and the White in America. Different from previous researchers this study focuses on racial discrimination are reflected on Remember the Titan movie, one of the major issue in this movie by Marxist approach. In this study the researcher gives the title ”Racial Discrimination in Boaz Yakin’s Remember the Titan Movie (2000): a Marxist approach”. C. Problem Statement Based on the background of the study, the problem of this research is “How is the racial discrimination reflected in Remember the Titan movie?” D. Research Limitation The researcher limits the study of racial discrimination on Marxist Approach. It is emphasized on Remember the Titan Movie (2000) by employing primary approach (Marxist Approach).