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Remember the Titans – Close Analysis of ‘Lesson from the Dead’ Scene A Kirk 2013 1
Year 11 Visual Text Study – Remember the Titans Close Analysis of ‘Lesson from the Dead’ Scene
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• Establishing shot of a building as lights from players’ rooms come on
• Sound of a fog-‐horn used by Boone to wake the players
• Dark due to it being in the middle of the night
• Mid-‐shot of players congregating outside the building
• Actors are coughing, yawning, and rubbing their hands together due to tiredness and cold
• Sound of murmuring and unhappy people complaining
• Dialogue: Let’s go, wake up gentlemen. It’s late, it’s 3am in the morning…
• Mid-‐shot of Boone looking amused as he addresses the players
• Boone: Listen up. You will follow Doc, myself, and the other coaches and we’re gonna take a little run through the woods… Yoast: Coach, this is a High School Football Team, we’re not in the marines here.
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• Dialogue (Boone): Let’s go! • Lingering long-‐shot as players run away
from the camera in formation • Sound of lots of footsteps running in
unison, across ground and in water • Music introduced “A Hard Rain’s Gonna
Fall”– by Bob Dylan (Upbeat tempo and strong drum rhythm)
• Long-‐shot of players arriving at Gettysburg as sun is rising
• Actors look exhausted following the players’ long run
• Music continues: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/ahardrainsagonnafall.html
• (Lyrics: Tell me where you’ve been, my blue-‐eyed son? It’s hard, oh it’s hard…)
• Long-‐shot of Boone looking out towards rows and rows of gravestones of the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg
• Eerie mist and breaking sunlight • Music fades out, heavy breathing • Dialogue (Boone): Anybody know what
this place is? (Long pause) This is Gettysburg…
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• Close-‐up of Yoast as he realises that Boone is making an honourable point
• Sound of heavy breathing of the players following their run
• Dialogue (Boone): This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today.
• Camera pans to close-‐up of Bertier as Boone’s point about racial hatred is sinking in
• Dialogue (Boone): This green field right here, painted red, bubblin' with the blood of young boys. Smoke and hot lead pouring right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men.
• Music – instrumental and powerful
• Cuts to mid-‐shot of Boone turning to address his players
• More of the gravestones are in focus giving a strong impression of the futility of racial hatred
• Dialogue (Boone): I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family. You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead.
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• Cuts back to a close-‐up of Ray as he looks pensive about his own racist views
• Dialogue (Boone): If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were…
• Cuts back to Boone in a mid-‐shot as he walks towards the players with the gravestones in the background
• Dialogue (Boone): I don't care if you like each other or not, but you will respect each other. And maybe... I don't know, maybe we'll learn to play this game like men.
• Final shot of the scene is another close-‐up of Bertier as he realises the role he will have to play in uniting the team due to him being the Captain
• The scene then cuts to the players training at night time using the headlights of cars to light up the pitch.