Dennis was fabulous in his role. I'm not sure anyone else could have played it as well as he did. My favorite sports movie of all time, and each actor was over-the-top with talent and delivery.

RIP Dennis. You were one of the best actors ever.

More than nominated. ABSOLUTELY should've won. I think the role of Shooter in Hoosiers was the best role in Hopper's tremendous career. He was brilliant and the perfect person to play that role when you consider how his past struggles with substance abuse aligned with Shooter's. And he couldn't have nailed the performance any more perfectly. Hoosiers turned out to be the best sports movie ever made, and Hopper/Shooter was a primary reason for that.

Dennis Hopper was so great in Hoosiers.

Best sports movie of all time

Dennis Hopper was AMAZING!! Absolutely incredible performance.

Generous as always, Dennis Hopper is a true gentleman of film.

Dennis was so good and he should have won the Oscar.

Hoosiers was Dennis Hopper's comeback role to film in the mid-1980s, after many years of floundering in the industry and overcoming drug addiction. Hopper was certainly one of the great actors of the last 50 plus years. RIP.

Mr. Hopper recalling Mr. Hackman's question and statement that no basketball movie had ever made money. The movie was about character and integrity, and it resonated with the American people. The basketball was simply a vehicle.

Still my favorite movie of all time. I've watched it 50 times. Dennis Hopper was great in this movie. Didn't it revive his career in some sort of way? Thanks!

Best sports movie ever made! Wonderful actors, Wonderful script!

not just a basketball movie. I have seen thousands of movies as a film buff. this is my favorite movie of them all. simple, elegant, moving, inspirational... flawless in every part and as a whole. thank you messrs. anspaugh, pizzo and goldsmith.

Dennis hopper, one the great unrated actor of time

One of the great sports movies - I've probably watched this one more than any other sports movie (and I've watched Rocky and The Natural about 25 times). Touching, well-acted - the innocence of the times, despite what must have had racial undercurrents.... a perfect metaphor for life... a redemption movie, an underdog movie. Wow - what a pleasure to watch...every time

He should have shared the story where they were filming the game in the gym right after Jimmy said he'd play if the coach stayed. At the 1:01:45 minute mark Hopper starts leaning over laughing. The team was "getting" it and everyone was having fun so seeing "Shooter" enjoying himself played well in that scene. But what actually happened there in real life was Gene Hackman leaned over to Dennis Hopper and said, "Well Hopper, I hope you've invested well because after this movie nobody's going to want to have anything to do with us again." Hopper couldn't help himself and rolled over laughing. It played perfectly so they kept it in the movie.

R.I.P Mr Hopper

It is based on Milan, Indiana winning against Muncie in 1954.

I can't help but chuckle when I think of him as Lefty taking on the cannibals in TCM 2....That's classic and I loved his character!

Shooter! RIP.

God bless America ...love yah ...always loyal, to nation that's given so much, to so many ...grateful 🎭🎬

Love Dennis Hopper, though he got a few of the historical facts a bit wrong. Big O's team fell to Milan in Semi-State Championship(for those not from Indiana that's like the Elite Eight round of the NCAA tourney). James Dean(who I believe was a good friend of Hopper) did play basketball as a starter for the Fairmount Quakers but he had graduated several years before Milan won it in '54 All that said, Dennis Hopper has always been one of the coolest cats in Hollywood!

What a career...from Rebel Without a Cause to Easy Rider to Apocalypse Now to Blue Velvet to Hoosiers to Speed...and let's not forget he was a pretty good director as well...RIP Deniis.

Hoosiers was a great movie, and Dennis Hopper gave a magnificent performance. However, he made a couple of errors in this video. First of all, he says that Milan beat Oscar Robertson’s high school in the Championship game. Milan beat Robertson’s school, Crispus Attucks in the semi finals. The team Milan beat to win the championship was Muncie Central. Second, while Milan was a very small school, they could hardly be considered underdogs. The 1952 - 1953 team advanced to the state semifinals and virtually every player from that team returned for the 1953 - 1954 season, so the fact that they made it to the state finals was more expected than surprising. Hollywood is known for never letting the truth get in the way of a good story. The movie was much more entertaining with the “David versus Goliath” storyline.

What a great, informative piece.

GO REST HIGH ON THAT MOUNTAIN VINCE GILL GOD BLESS

At first I thought he was miscast but he brought it. Best role of his career.

Dennis Hopper, a pioneering Sports Techie, RIP bro

Without Mr Harper Speed and Water World would have not been as good as they were. RIP Dennis Hopper.

RIP Mr Hopper......great actor

That line, with that last look.

Oscar Robertson, Big O, actually played for Crispus Attucks, an Indianapolis school, not Muncie Central. They were the first Indianapolis school ever to win State, and the first all-black school ever to win State. After losing to Milan in 1954, Crispus Attucks won it all in 1955 and repeated in 1956.

Great movie, and Hopper should have won. He was excellent, as were all the actors.

R.I.P. Dennis, you are missed.

"Oscar Robinson" & "University of Indiana" 🤣🤣😂😂 RIP Hopp

Dennis Hopper was not from Indiana. Oscar Robertson, not Robinson, could also simply be referred to as "The Big O". There is not a university in the world that is named, the "University of Indiana". The University in Bloomington is Indiana University. IU, M.S. in Ed. class of 1967.

James Dean...gone but not forgotten

THIS MAN IS AMAZING

What a great movie Watch it slot Makes me feel like the way they dressed

"shoot the money" . . . what a great piece of movie jargon near the very end of the interview

Great actor.

WHEN EVER I FEEL SAD ABOUT HOW GREEDY AND AWFUL PEOPLE ARE WHICH IS A LOT I TURN THIS MOVIE ON THE KIDS ARE AWESOME

gracias MR HOPPER.. Thank's MR HOPPER R.I.P

R.I.P.

From which year was this Interview?

James Dean may have competed against Milan HS, but he was long graduated by the time the Milan Miracle happened. Just sayin. Fairmount HS is in NE Indiana. Milan is in SE Indiana not far from the Ohio River.

Biggest question I have about the movie, which I love by the way, is how did Buddy get back on the team? He just showed up one game with no explanation.

Dennis would have been great playing Bobby Knight in a movie.

It's amazing how sometimes the Oscars can get it so unbelievably wrong

Just watched Hoosiers. What a combo: Gene Hackman + Dennis Hopper playing an alcoholic...!? Then a synthy Jerry Goldsmith score to boot

Oscar Robertson did not play in this game....lol Nor did he play high school basketball at Muncie Central. Oscar played at another fabled basketball school, Indianapolis Crispus Attucks. Interestingly enough, the guy who played a small part as Muncie's head coach actually coached at Crispus Attucks High School. Perhaps this is what confused Dennis Hopper....?

His name in the movie was Bitcher, the same name of the coach at Loogootee, who is the winningest coach in Indiana High School history. RIP

RIP :(

Loved that movie when I first saw it. I found it on Tv and showed it to my daughter. The movie was so edited it was ruined. My daughter could not understand why I liked the movie. She had a point.

Oscar Robinson !!

And don't get caught watch'n the paint dry!

what a ... survivor.

Sorry, Oscar was a sophomore in 1954 and played for Crispus Attucks. Milan beat them in the semi-finals, not the final. Not a big deal, really, but some people are hung up on details like that.

Interesting story, but untrue... Oscar Roberton played at Indianapolis Crispus Attucks in high school. In the 1954 Indiana State Basketball Championship, Milan beat Muncie Central to win the game. This is what the movie is based on.

I want to see Dennis do one more biker flick, a la Red Light King O LD MAN.

Who is the Gene Hackman of 2012?

Bob-omb!

Great movie-Great actor rip. Sorry Dennis but it's Big O Oscar ROBERTSON! 5,4,3,2,1, let'r fly, in and out...

Indiana University not university of Indiana

Point of fact...Oscar Robertson did not play against this team in this tournament. He played in the 1955 finals. He played for Crispus Attucks High School.

Dennis Hopper was such an underrated actor, it's insane. He was so much more deserved of more awards, turning in so many great performances. It's criminal. Such an awesome character actor, yet out of everything he does, his only Oscar nomination, was for a crappy movie like Hoosiers.

Oscar Robertson not Oscar Robinson lol, the Big O

If you don't like this movie, I'd like you to leave right now....I said I'd like you to leave

NOT a true story. Listen to the director's comments on it. Still an interesting interview.

Hopper, as is almost always the case, hasn't a clue regarding the general subject matter treated by the film in which he appears. And that folks, I suppose one could say, is why it's called, "acting".

Justin beaver

Sorry Still take Rudy over Hoosiers, as it is after all NOTRE DAME (a fine Indiana school I hear)

Now Boys don't get caught watchin the paint Dry My Favorite Quote from Dennis Hopper Rest In Peace Favorite movie of all time..