That is downright funny! I do enjoy bloopers in movies, and Hoosiers had tons of them.
As a "girl," I noticed the fashion was kind of on, but the hair styling was minimal, at best. I saw so many eighties girl mullets that I kind of got sad; why could I see so many eighties hair cuts?
Furthermore, the makeup was totally not authentic. I have so many pictures of my mother's childhood, and all of our family's women are in them, from all ages. Painted eyebrows, red lipstick, big crazy jewelry, and old lady hair (or at least rag curling jobs). All of them. Barbara Hershey's hair was almost enigmatic, in fact.
I do love the movie, but I think it was probably impossible for the designers to find two to three hundred kids with square hair, at least girls with square hair. Most of us had layered hair in the eighties, and there were few--if any--layered early-fifties hair cuts.
Another thing I find myself obsessing on in period movies is office supplies. The plastic ballpoint pen was not a big seller in the States until the late fifties. Certain pens did not show up until the eighties, nineties, etc. When I see a pen that I know was developed a decade later in a movie, I wonder why someone would not have considered the easiest fix, which would be to use the old Bic Cristal or the yellow-orange Bic pens as quick fixes. They are still available.
(Here is a short Sixties pen story: In 1963 and 1964, my dad took the teacher's desk as his seat for a study hall. Everyone was told to take a seat, and he took the teacher's seat. The study hall proctor said, "Fine!" and let his stay. The desk was the home desk of a teacher with OCD. Every day my dad would open the desk and take the Bic pens apart, switching the inks from the red pens and putting it into the blue or black pens. The poor teacher never knew what was going to come out of the pens.)
The gene pool could use a little chlorine......
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jaystarstar
11 years ago
"Hoosiers" was a pretty low-budget movie; they certainly didn't have any budget for hairstyling and makeup for extras - they had to take people pretty much as they came.
Most of the people who had speaking roles on camera (i.e. the Huskers) had fairly accurate haircuts. At least none of them were wearing a Bono-style mullet from the mid-1980s.
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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.
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hoosiersfan2011
11 years ago
The names on the blackboard are not a "blooper." They were put there intentionally as a tribute to the actors who played the Huskers. This does not count as a mistake.
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mobocracy
9 years ago
The big period thing that bothered me is that many of the buildings and interiors looked old and worn, which they were in the 1980s. But in 1951 they would have looked cleaner and less used. Same with many of the cars. They looked like they should have looked in 1986 not 1951.
I realize that the money was spent on Hackman, Hershey, Hopper and location shooting and that it may have been cost prohibitive or impossible to paint and fix up the buildings.
But I find lots of period movies doing this -- preying on the audiences' unconscious expectation that old stuff should look old and worn even if it was new in the period. I can never tell if it's just being cheap, lazy production design or something else.
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hoosiersfan2011
9 years ago
The movie had a modest production budget--only $6 million. The filmmakers didn't have enough money to make extensive changes to any of the sites. Therefore, they looked for filming locations that hadn't changed much over the years.
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liscarkat (18886)
4 years ago
In the movie, I saw a Chevrolet pickup truck model that was first produced in 1947. In 1951, when the movie was set, it couldn't have been more than four years old. But it looked like it had been beat up by thirty or forty years of farm work and never been parked in a garage. How did such wear and tear happen in four years or less?
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