Comme c'est souvent le cas, il y a souvent un écart entre le version hollywoodienne d'une histoire et les incidents réels. Voici un article dans le Washington Post de ce matin qui s'intéresse particulièrement à l'histoire de "Petey" Jones qui travaille toujours pour le T.C. Wiliams High School en Virginie. Sans être une grande production, je conserve un bon souvenir de ce film, particulièrement la scène où le coach Boone parle à ses joueurs sur les champs de bataille à Gettysburgh.
"Fifteen years ago, Jones received a telephone call. Someone had written a movie about the Titans and Disney wanted to shoot it. “Yeah, right,” Jones had responded. The state championship had always been special to him, but why would anyone else care?
“Everyone in the metropolitan area knew,” said Julius Campbell, a former teammate. “Now, all of a sudden, the whole world knew.”%% Before long, Jones had flown to Atlanta, where Washington, who portrayed Titans Coach Herman Boone, told him, “Aw, man, I’m all over you in the movie.” Then he went to the worldwide premiere at the Rose Bowl, riding in a golf cart beside Faison as people yelled, “Petey! Petey!” though he knew they weren’t calling for him. Then he attended the premiere in D.C., taking pictures of his son with President Bill Clinton, and beaming with pride, because he felt like somebody his children could admire."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/petey-jones-immortalized-in-remember-the-titans-still-works-at-tc-williams-high-school/2014/10/13/bdb5f0a4-4e36-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story.html
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