I'm watching it right now and I don't understand that part.
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That's right. He called the black coach a monkey in an interview on TV. I graduated from high school in 1971 in the South and it's hard to believe a white coach would have ever called a black guy a monkey in 1971. Maybe in 1961 but not in 1971. Wonder if that was stuck in the movie for effect so they could do the banana thing.
shareI know I'm late but you're surprised that in '71 something racist was said in an interview? Especially just after integration. For christsakes it's 2013 and racist comments are still spouted on national tv.
shareThey made that part up for the movie only.
There was a LOT of fiction in this true story. lol
I wonder if you are romanticizing the past. I'm certainly not trying to call you out as a liar but people STILL use these type of characterizations NOW. It is not only NOT hard to believe it took place in 1971, it is patently false to declare that it does not still happen. I have seen people get terminated, pushed out of their homes and physically battered for NO reason other than race and despite what people say, racism is not defined by any one group of people. Judging other people based on the color of their skin (regardless of what color that is) IS racism.
There was a lot of static about a cartoonist drawing these type of comparisons toward President Obama and that was just in the past few years.
- Get busy living, or get busy dying. Andy (The Shawshank Redemption)
I thought it was a way of sayin in addition to them having the refs on the take that they still lost and a made a monkey out of him.
shareI suppose he was saying, "Who da monkey now? Here you go, monkey."
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Mainly to prove that he wasn't intimidated. And sure enough, he wasn't.
shareIn real life the coach actually called him a black dog and so the parent association or council gave Boone a paper to give to the coach. After Boone gave it to the coach he found out that it was a 78 dollar check to buy a black lab so that he knew what a real black dog actually looks like.
Herman Boone came to my school and told us that that is what actually happened
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When they are interviewing Tabor he calls over his "prized bulls" and says "that they will knock the chocolate out of people"
Then the reporter asks if he is going to exchange game films with Coach Boone and he responds by saying,"I won't do anything to help out that monkey!"
So he throws him the banana after he refuses to shake his hand after the titans win and the teams are congratulating each other.
Suggesting many of the things other posters have said. Essentially making Tabor choke on his words and think to himself things like "Who's the monkey now?"
Does anybody really believe that racist remarks would not be made back in 1971 down south by some coach? As some poster here have claimed? Perhaps someone is trying to advance revisionist history would dare state that. Racist remarks are being made now. And it has gotten even worse because the bigots do not even try to hide them, they just apologize when some one questions them. On top of that the bigots have added a slew of new groups of people to hate, Latino's, older people, young poor children. Any immigrate group that doesn't look like them.
shareEven in 1971 it was still considered bad form to make such comments publicly. Maybe not so much in 1961, but definitely by the '70s.
Remember also Alexandria is not the deep deep South -- we're not talking Selma, Alabama here.
In real life every single team T.C. Williams played that year had at least one black player, so it's not very likely any head coach would be going on TV and talking about monkeys or knocking the chocolate out of anybody.
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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.