Since the inception of cinema, there have been hundreds of films that have used sports as a vessel for their narrative drama. From silent-comedies like Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, to dramatic biopics like Raging Bull, filmmakers have reveled in giving their audience a taste of a world that most of us have only ever dreamt of being a part of. The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen brings you closer to the making of some of the great sports movies of our time.
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Since the inception of cinema, there have been hundreds of films that have used sports as a vessel for their narrative drama. From silent-comedies like Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, to dramatic biopics like Raging Bull, filmmakers have reveled in giving their audience a taste of a world that most of us have only ever dreamt of being a part of. The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen brings you closer to the making of some of the great sports movies of our time.
High School basketball is like a religion to those in Indiana. This is why the story of the small-town Milan High School basketball team winning the State Championship in 1954 inspired Indiana Native Angelo Pizzo to write the screenplay for “Hoosiers”. In this episode of "The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen", we touch on the creation of the script, and hear from former Milan High School star Bobby Plump on what it was like to play on that team almost 70 years ago.
The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen
Since the inception of cinema, there have been hundreds of films that have used sports as a vessel for their narrative drama. From silent-comedies like Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, to dramatic biopics like Raging Bull, filmmakers have reveled in giving their audience a taste of a world that most of us have only ever dreamt of being a part of. The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen brings you closer to the making of some of the great sports movies of our time.
