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Originally Posted by Mutt
there is no bigger Hoosiers fan on the planet then me. It's a magical movie to me. And Hackman is one of the great actors of all time.
Run the picket fence one more time Jimmy Chitwood wherever you are.
Soundtrack is great too - i play it when I want goose pimples.
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I'd bought the anniversary edition awhile back, and had never watched the entire set. Tonight, we didn't get to watch the whole 2nd disc before it was the munchkin's bedtime. But we did watch enough for me to learn some cool stuff. ie, the kid playing Jimmy had never hit *the* shot in practice. They brought out, the real life Jimmy, Bobby Plump, to show him where the shot was made from. When they said "action", the kid swished it in, nothing but net.
However, the director had never told the cast and extras what they were supposed to do if the ball went in. He wasn't expecting it to go in the first time, because of the inablility to make it on prior attempts.
So what you saw after the bucket was just Indiana hoops fans reacting like they would had it all been for real. That's cool.
I live in the town I grew up in, Mutt, and our entire school system, k-12, is maybe 1,000 kids. So I grew up going to ball games in dinky gyms where it was packed to the rafters. It simply didn't get any better than Indiana high school basketball.
Until they killed it with multi-class, that is. ;)