1. Movie Speech Project
Remember the Titans

2. Movie info. Date: 2000 Setting: 1971, VA
Genre: biography, sports drama
Starring: Denzel Washington
Synopsis: “The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.”

3. Rhetorical triangle: Speaker: Coach Boone (Denzel Washington)
Context: Due to recent integration at the high school, the football team is NOT getting along. The coach can’t even seem to get the players to unite while at football camp over the summer.
Audience: the T.C. Williams H.S.
Football Team
Subject: Coach Boone commemorates the tragedy at the battle of Gettysburg, and encourages the boys to learn from it.
Intention: Coach Boone’s main goal in giving this speech is to inspire his players to unite and come together as a team .

4. Speech:

5. Analysis
Rhetorical Appeals: Although the speech appeals to logos, the appeal to pathos is stronger. Coach boone encourages his players to learn from the past in order to move forward. He is very descriptive in his illustration of the tragedy at the battle of gettsyburg. This moves his players and inspires them to unite as a team regardless of skin color, just like the soliders who came before them.
Tone: serious
Figurative language: imagery ”painted red” “bubblin’ with the blood of young men"