With March Madness approaching and state high school basketball tournaments coming up, this post is dedicated to the movie Hoosiers.
Caiden and I watched Hoosiers this week - a movie we've been meaning to introduce him to all winter! He was home sick and I wasn't too busy, so I joined him in the living room and relived one of my favorite movies of all time. I am a total Hoosiers geek! It is one of the few movies I remember watching in a movie theater (I was in grade school). I bought the soundtrack (on tape) and when we bought the video, I watched it nearly every weekend during my jr. high years. I had the whole thing memorized! On Wednesday when I watched it with Caiden, I got chills all over again when Jimmy made that final shot! Such a fantastic movie - and Caiden liked it, too!
And since I am such a Hoosiers geek, I went online today to learn more about the real team that this movie is based on. Not shockingly, a lot of the movie was embellished. Most of it didn't happen - in fact, the names are even different (except for Ollie, who was actually the team's manager and did NOT come in and make winning free throws). There is no town of Hickory in Indiana. The real team came from Milan, IN. The coach was actually in his second year when they won the state championship, not his first year. And the town didn't try to remove him as coach - the director of the movie just needed some conflict for interest!
Here are some things that were true about the story:
-The championship game was held at Butler University in the fieldhouse - the same place the movie was filmed.
-The game announcer in the movie was the actual announcer from the real game.
-The coach really did measure the basketball goal when they arrived at Butler.
-The last 10 seconds of the championship game in the movie are accurate - the winning shot did happen that way (thank goodness)!
-The did really play a much bigger, powerful team from a much larger school.
While it was a bummer to find out that so much of the movie was made up, I stilllike love this movie! Check out the winning shot and relive it for yourself (if you have time - who has time to watch these things?) :)
Caiden and I watched Hoosiers this week - a movie we've been meaning to introduce him to all winter! He was home sick and I wasn't too busy, so I joined him in the living room and relived one of my favorite movies of all time. I am a total Hoosiers geek! It is one of the few movies I remember watching in a movie theater (I was in grade school). I bought the soundtrack (on tape) and when we bought the video, I watched it nearly every weekend during my jr. high years. I had the whole thing memorized! On Wednesday when I watched it with Caiden, I got chills all over again when Jimmy made that final shot! Such a fantastic movie - and Caiden liked it, too!
And since I am such a Hoosiers geek, I went online today to learn more about the real team that this movie is based on. Not shockingly, a lot of the movie was embellished. Most of it didn't happen - in fact, the names are even different (except for Ollie, who was actually the team's manager and did NOT come in and make winning free throws). There is no town of Hickory in Indiana. The real team came from Milan, IN. The coach was actually in his second year when they won the state championship, not his first year. And the town didn't try to remove him as coach - the director of the movie just needed some conflict for interest!
Here are some things that were true about the story:
-The championship game was held at Butler University in the fieldhouse - the same place the movie was filmed.
-The game announcer in the movie was the actual announcer from the real game.
-The coach really did measure the basketball goal when they arrived at Butler.
-The last 10 seconds of the championship game in the movie are accurate - the winning shot did happen that way (thank goodness)!
-The did really play a much bigger, powerful team from a much larger school.
While it was a bummer to find out that so much of the movie was made up, I still
I just introduced the boys to the movie this year also!
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