![]() The state championship games take place in the Hinkle Field House in Indianapolis, less a gymnasium than an architectural landmark. The coach overcomes initial obstacles and difficulties, sacrificing early games to impose his moral vision of the game, recruits the drunk as his assistant and sets the team on a season which will provide the transcendent moment in their sheltered lives. The film version had the classic tropes: a nomadic coach seeking redemption, a tragic town drunk, locals suspicious of the coach's outsider-ways (discussed at a town meeting in the barber shop) and a reluctant local star, Jimmy Chitwood. The premise was unpromising: set in 1950s Indiana and based on the true story of a high school basketball team – a sport about which no good film had been made. The bare sketch of Hoosiers is familiar but based on a true story: the plucky underdog team conspiring against the odds and fates to achieve something unforgettable. It turned out that the most unorthodox actor of the day belonged to the growing army of film fans who have fallen under the indefinable spell of one of the standalone delights of all sports-themed movies: Hoosiers. And Thornton had wanted to meet Anspaugh since he'd watched his debut feature film a decade before. Thornton was offbeat and charming and told him that one of the perks of winning an Oscar was that you got to meet whomever you wished. Anspaugh couldn't figure why he was being summoned. ![]() ![]() Thornton, a free-spirited and slightly trippy chameleon, had just won an award for Best Screenplay and was hot property. A few days after the 1997 Oscar ceremony, the film maker David Anspaugh was invited to meet Billy Bob Thornton for lunch. ![]()
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