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Post by vegalyra on Aug 25, 2018 18:41:51 GMT
It was okay but predictable - but I remember thinking: This is bullshit. High schools were integrated in the early 1960's, not '71. I WAS IN high school in the early 70's and I didn't remember any racial stuff going on. There was some of course, but not like the movie portrayed it. Sure enough, I looked into the "true story" claim and I was right - it was all made-up Disney bullshit. They took the very basics of truth - there really was a high school team that went undefeated in '71 named the Titans - and made up a racial morality tale that never happened. A bit more jaded, a bit wiser. Actually the history regarding desegregation shows a much slower pace. Congress didn't expressly force desegregation until 1968 and even then in some counties around the US the schools weren't completely integrated until the early 1970's. My Dad went to a high school in Texas that was still segregated in 1969-1970. The old "colored" school still exists and is now the alternative school for kids that are "trouble makers".... Back to the movie. I didn't really care for it much, but I did like the Buck Owens "act naturally" thrown in the soundtrack. I didn't even know it was Ryan Gosling when I first saw the film back in the day... |
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