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Bass and others have stated that many scenes in the 2001 film Remember The Titans are fictional, and do not portray the real-life Ronald Bass accurately. For example, in the movie, Ronald is depicted as a long-haired hippie. Ronald has been quoted in the Greenville News as saying, "I was never quite like that ... But that's Hollywood. I'll say for the record my hair was never that long."
In the film, Ron "Sunshine" Bass, played by Kip Pardue, arrives after camp begins and is introduced to the Titans' coaches by his father, Col. Bass (Andrew Masset). In real life, Sunshine had been in Alexandria before camp started, and had practiced with Rev, his rival quarterback, in the unofficial workouts during the summer. "Ronnie went down (to the Burg) every day, and he related to the kids there in the ghetto," Boone says in his DVD commentary. "This is one of the reasons they called him 'Sunshine.' ".^[2]
Bass has also commented on the scene in the movie in which his character kisses Gerry Bertier (Ryan Hurst) on the lips in the locker room. Bass has stated that this scene never happened.
Regarding the racial tension at T.C. Williams High School, Bass told the Greenville News that the movie exaggerated the racial tensions that existed in Alexandria at the time. "They (the movie) had a community divided down black and white, and it really wasn't like that in 1971 Alexandria," he said, although he admitted that the Titans' championship run did help bring the community together. "My friend Bill Yoast ... told me Disney had taken liberties with the facts, suggesting an overheated atmosphere of racial animosities and fears at the school and in the community that just hadn't existed," added Patrick Welsh, who taught at TC Williams in 1971, in a Washington Post article.^[2]