I live in the State of Indiana, where South Bend and Notre Dame are located. We are big Notre Dame fans. Notre Dame is extremely hard to get into, and playing on the football team is even harder. When my daughter got the chance to play in the Notre Dame Band drumline and march on that field, she gave up swimming scholarships at other universities to do so. Every year before the football season starts, the students get their blankets, set on the field and watch Rudy on the big screen in the stadium. Notre Dame is a magical place (in our eyes).
I lived there about 5 mins from Notre Dame. After 12 years of shoveling snow I moved back to better climes. I miss the beauty of just looking at it. I could see it from my living room.
Even though I live about 4 hours from campus (Metro Detroit), I go as much for the prayerful reflection and mental health trips as I do for the football.
I graduated from Notre Dame. I was a freshman 2 years after Rudy's class (Joe Montana was a senior when I was a frosh, so Joe and Rudy were "teammates"!). Back then I eventually heard the story from upperclassmen who were at ND in 76 when Rudy was there, but it wasn't talked about or as well known then as it is now because of the movie. My "mini Rudy" story was that I was the only person in my class from the entire St Louis area from a public high school that got into and went to Notre Dame (StL is a very Catholic city with a lot of private Catholic HS). I also helped work my way through Notre Dame by working in a steel factory 3 summers in a row. I kid you not. One of my best buddies at ND was a huge Italian Offensive lineman from Chicago Heights in the far south suburbs. Their HS archrival was the school Rudy went to, Joliet Catholic. He was a 3rd/2nd teamer until a few games junior year and then finally started in senior year. It was pretty cool when we finally got to see him not only playing but starting. Since I lived in a dorm which housed a lot of the players, obviously I got to know a lot of them. (Crable, Gramke, Tony Hunter, Harry Oliver, Ron Mischke especially). I loved my 4 years there, it was such a special and yes, magical place. So years later, in the early 90s, we go to a game (BYU I think?) on a beautiful fall weekend at ND, and we are walking around campus taking in all the traditional pre game festivities, including the band walkoff from the Golden Dome to the Stadium. We notice people dressed in strange "older clothing" lined up for the band walkoff. It just looked odd. And then I noticed a few cameras that were filming the band, but the cheerleaders had 70s style outfits that I recognized from my years in the late 70s. So we knew something was up but didn't know what was going on. So we followed the band to the stadium and finally asked someone what were they filming (I thought it might be for a sports special or documentary), and someone said "a movie about a player at Notre Dame" or something like that. Little did we know we were right on the fringes of a scene in RUDY! I've scoured the scene in slo mo several times and alas, we must have just missed being in the fringes of the scene, we're in the background somewhere..... It was very surreal watching Rudy for the first time, because I had been in all those places, and walked over all that same ground (except the football practice fields). Even the Corbys bar scene rang so true (despite it being the "new" Corbvs, not the old 4 corner bar location). I got chills seeing my campus on the big screen like that. They did a heckuva job showing off the campus. Just a few years earlier a bunch of us (former roommates etc) had gone down to Phoenix to watch our alma mater win the National Championship over West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl. Shook Dan Devine's hand at the night before Pep Rally, Devine was our coach for 3 of my 4 years. Have been to about 25 football games since graduation. One of the last times I was up in South Bend was for Father Hesburgh's Memorial Mass/Funeral. I treasure Notre Dame.
Your story reminded me of my time in grad school at LSU, I lived right next to the field that the Marching Band would practice on for the games. It got old really fast...hahaha. Have to admit, I have always enjoyed watching Notre Dame.
Those home games are amazing. One of my brothers did volunteer security at the home games for 10 years (yellow windbreakers and black slacks) until he got offered an usher position (long coats and bus-driver caps) and got paid to go to the home games for another 10 years.
In the US Notre Dame college is pronounced NOTER DAYME, but if we are talking about the cathedral in France, we pronounce it by its original pronunciation. As for football, typically yes you have to be big to play certain positions, like offensive lineman and defensive lineman are easily over 6 feet tall and over 300 pounds. Also the father was very proud of his son, his reactions stem from the fact he was the son of immigrants who went through the Great Depression. This is why he tells Rudy the story of his father and his brothers being split up and sent away to live with relatives and friends. You see through out the movie the father telling his sons about good paying union jobs with benefits and security while being around family. He just wanted his son to stay grounded and have a good life with the security and the family he never had.
This movie makes me cry every time, when he gets into school, when they give up their jerseys, and then when they carry him off the field. Lol never fails. Thanks for this one! Holy crap I just realized that Dermot Mulroney was in this!
The scene with the jerseys was just in the movie. In real life, the coach wanted him to play in that game to show his appreciation for all the hard work & dedication to the team.by Rudy.
Rudy had 13 siblings fyi, his father nearly went broke helping Rudy pay for college. Rudy was tiny as far as collegiate football defenseman go and he was dyslexic and had poor grades. It showed him working at a steel plant for 4 years but in real life he served 2 years on active duty in the Navy after high school then 2 years at the plant. One additional ND player has been carried off the field since this film was released.
@@kbrewski1no one remembers players that don't cut it in the pro's, besides fans of the specific college team. I live in SB and the only player I remember is kmet because he became a chi bear. Unless you go way back in time and bring up Montana or Bettis.
@tonyb7615 I know who Marc Edwards is. I just didn't remember him being carried off the field. I've seen just about every Notre Dame football game since 1978 (,and many before 78).
I was at a game in the early 90s (BYU I think) when they were filming some campus scenes, the band walkoff from the Dome steps to the stadium. I noticed people wearing "older clothing" and the cheerleaders wearing the old 70s unis. Turns out we later found out it was Rudy. We just missed being in the background of the walkoff!
@oaktree1628 Yep, most of the game scenes were at halftime of the Boston Coll game in 92. The Director had reserved that game and the following week vs Penn St to get the filming done. #8 ND was obliterating # 9 undefeated BC 37-0 at halftime. Then come the actors dressed as ND and Ga Tech football players and play during halftime. I bet that was confusing to many. The actual ND players apparently didn't know what was going on according to a story I read. ND ended up winning the BC game 54-7. They still had to film some additional crowd scenes but the next week's Penn St game turned into the famous last second victory, The Snow Bowl. So the director couldn't use snowy footage on Sat, and they had to shoot Sunday for the final in the stands scenes with Rudy's Dad etc (Ned Beatty). If you notice those scenes they are really bundled up and freezing. ND had to entice a few thousand people to show up on that cold Sunday with a few giveaways. I was at the mid October BYU game that same year, when they filmed the pre game stuff I mentioned with the band, cheerleaders etc. That was a nice sunny day and you can tell in those few quick scenes that I almost got in. ND shellacked BYU that day too.
Now you've got to watch the greatest sports movie of them all, which is "Miracle." It's a true story and Kurt Russell's performance is out of this world. Give it a shot.
I can't watch that movie. I REMEMBER the events of that era. What it meant to us as Americans. I watch that movie nowadays, and I'm almost certain to get a visit from the Secret Service for my remarks about our gov't today.
Not even close. It’s Slapshot. Followed by Major League, Goon, Bend it Like Beckham, Longest Yard, The Sandlot, Mystery Alaska and Remember the Titans.
I attended Notre Dame from 91-95. My roommate was the stand-in for Sean Astin. We had a choice of going to class or being an extra in a movie, getting paid, and being fed better than dining hall food. We chose screw class. I was an extra in a bunch of bar and classroom scenes. We thought the movie was going to be terrible and when we watched the premier in South Bend we all cried. I have an ND football signed by both the real Rudy and Sean Astin that sits on my mantle. Go Irish! Also, FYI, this is the movie where Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau were struggling actors and met each other and came up with the idea for Swingers.
Yes American football is a massive thing, it is THE massive thing - both pro and college. The annual NFL draft was just held last week in Detroit and it drew 775,000 people just to watch players be picks by various teams! 😮 If you’re interested in another good football movie based on a true story, I would highly recommend “Remember the Titans” with Denzel Washington. I would also recommend the movie “Miracle,” with Kurt Russell based on the 1980 US Olympic hockey team.
He wrote a book about how he got the movie made. It took about as much determination to get the studios to make the movie as him getting to play for ND. It's quite a story.
It took that much to get the movie made because the whole story is fake. All of his teammates have said he didn't work harder than anyone else on the team. And no one in the audience ever knew who he was
The Director of this film had earlier directed another American sports classic about "underdogs", called HOOSIERS. A basketball movie, also ironically set in the State of Indiana. Rudy pestered this director to film his story until he agreed. Its a FANTASTIC movie, a gem you will also love, well worth reacting to!!
It was Rudy’s heart and commitment. When he was taking all those hard hits as a tackling dummy so the team could train and he still give 100 percent He earned everyone’s respect and the team felt Rudy deserved to live that moment that was the culmination of his life long dream.
Dawn, follow this video with a reaction to “Hoosiers,” a great small budget film about a small high school basketball team going to the state championship and the importance of giving people 2nd chances in life. All the young actors were amateurs but could play the American game of basketball. The main character actor was Gene Hackman which you just watched in the “Porsiden Adventure. “. And this gave the actor playing “Shooter” ( I forgot his name, yikes !!! ) which restarted his career to play the bad guy in the movie “Speed.” UR the best, keep rolling with the reactions !!!😃😎👍
Rudy did motivational speaking tours in the mid-90's. When he had a stop at our college, I got tickets and got to see him and hear him speak. Part of his talk was about the film, what was real and what was fantasy. The whole "wise janitor" thing was complete fabrication, but for the most part, the film did a pretty good job of telling the his story.
Also they never laid their jerseys on Dan Devine's desk. It makes for a good story, but Devine said if that really happened, those players would've been gone. He was also not happy that the writers/directors made him the villain. It was his idea to dress and play Rudy.
Jon Favreau was on Friends for a season, and he also directs and plays "Happy" in the Iron Man/Spiderman movies. He got his start with Vince Vaughn in the movie they wrote called SWINGERS.
@mikefetterman6782 That's an impressive career he's had not surprising he was raised by actors his Mother is Patty Duke [The Miracle Worker ] and his stepfather is John Astin [The original Gomez Addams from the Addams family tv series . And i love all those performances of SEAN'S you listed . 😃
Rudy applied for transfer to Notre Dame after every semester at Holy, he did it 4 times and was finally accepted on his 4th and final eligible attempt. So, he went into Notre Dame his Junior year - with 2 full years (4 semesters) of college under his belt.
Yes, in reality he would not have been able to transfer until he completed the 2 years at Holy Cross due to NDs very strict transfer rules, or after 1 year if you have outstanding credentials and satisfied the frosh requirements(one of my best friends at ND had transferred from Marquette after freshman year). So I think they played up the multiple rejection letters for movie effect. He probably got rejected after 1 year, not after each semester.
@MrKINSM Yes, I know all that. Rudy was prone to "exaggerate" and stretch some things. I was a freshman at ND 2 years after he graduated. On my dorm floor that year, my section was full of a bunch of juniors and seniors that knew him. For one thing, it would make absolutely no sense for Rudy to apply after his 1st semester in junior college. They even told him, go for a year, see what happens. So MAYBE he applied at the end of his 1st junior college year, and then again after his 2nd year, when he was admitted. Again, I learned a lot about the transfer process when this Marquette grad transferred in before soph year.
Just for added context --- this movie is based on a true story. Rudy is a real person. The University of Notre Dame in Indiana (USA), a Catholic university, is one of the top universities in the USA, and has a storied football (American Football) history. Remember, this isn't professional football...it's college (university) football, where different universities play against each other. College Football is huge in the USA, with big schools such as Notre Dame having their own stadiums that can hold between 80,000 to 100,000 spectators. Anyway, the school's football team typically produces players every year who then go on to play professional football in the NFL. The students who receive scholarships to play for the school are usually among the top high school footballers in the country....so, a high school player has to be among the elite to even be scouted by Notre Dame's scouts. Rudy was nowhere remotely close to that class of players....he was just a local boy, with below average talent, but a lot of heart and will. And yes, while the University of Notre Dame is competitive to get into (although not as competitive to get into when compared to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, Cornell, Oxford, Cambridge etc), it is one of the most popular schools that graduating high school seniors with good grades apply to.
I believe Rudy was an all conference DB/LB at Joliet Catholic, a perennial HS powerhouse. So he was good in HS, but not quite big enough to get a look by Div 1 schools. As far as competitiveness to get in, yes the Ivy League schools are ALL vastly over applied to because people who want to get into Ivies usually apply to ALL THE IVIES, especially these days with computer applications. And there are a fair amount of students who have no intention of going to an Ivy (cost), but will apply to a few Ivies in the hopes of being able to say "I got into an Ivy!". That distorts the numbers quite a bit. Plus, Notre Dame as a primarily Catholic school will not be applied to by as many Jewish and Muslim students, and even many "Evangelical Christians" will shy away from ND. So they weed themselves out. The amount of incredibly high test scoring perfect straight A students ND still must reject to fill its 2000 student classes (back in 74/75 the classes were about 1500 spots) is amazing. I heard a recent stat about how many HS Valedictorians they deny every year, and it was stunning. In sum, I'll gladly take my ND degree over one from Cornell, Columbia, NYU any day. ND grads are highly sought after in the job market for more than just book grades, and employers view ND grads very highly because of many intangible factors. ND is right up there with schools like Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt and Washington Univ academically.
Ayyyyy.....Rudy!! He's from my hometown! Also famous from my hometown is the prison used in Blues Brothers (as in "Joliet Jake") and the tv show Prison Break. Nick Offerman, Melissa McCarthy, and uhh...Andy Dick (and some more people). Also, it's the origin of Dairy Queen and Tastee Freeze (from the John Cougar Mellencamp song). That is all. I'm done bragging about my hometown :)
I may be biased because ive been an Irish fan all my life but Rudy is my all time favorite sports movie & just love it so much!!!! If you know the legacy & tradition of Notre Dame, youll appreciate the movie so much more! Gives me chill everytime i see a a famous landmark accompanied by the incredible score featuring the most iconic fight song in college. Been to South Bend 3 times & i love it more every time! Thank you fot reviewing Rudy because its rarely ever reviewed...Go Irish 🍀
One of the most enjoyable times of my life was when I was in college and played in the marching band. Every weekend we'd get to perform pre-game and halftime shows, and we'd spend the rest of the time in the stands watching the game and encouraging the fans to cheer for our team. Friday night I'd go to a local bar with other band members and perform fight songs every 15 minutes for a free pitcher of Bud Light every hour; wake up at the crack of dawn on Saturday, head for Perkins where all the music majors met (I wasn't a music major; my major was playing video games and skipping physics lectures). Then we all would head over to the music building to haul the equipment to the stadium for the game. Then we would have our practice _in_ the stadium. Then, about 9 or 10 o'clock, we'd leave and have to be back by noon for the pre-game show. I would perform at the pre-game show, go around with the "pep band", performing, then do the halftime show... after the game I would help haul the equipment back to the music building. It was a very... very long day and I loved every minute of it. Except it was exhausting. The band had two iron-clad, unbreakable rules; miss a practice, you can't perform in the next game. Miss a game, and you're out of the band, period, no appeal. One Saturday, I made the mistake of laying on my bed after the Saturday practice... I woke up about 15 minutes before the pre-game started. I hopped in my little two-seater sports car, and raced to the stadium, defying death the whole way, absolutely terrified that I was out of the band. I got there just as the band was about to enter the stadium. Not only was my coach there, but the head of the entire music department of the university. I began apologizing profusely, trying to explain, as the band members around me reversed my overlay that I'd put on backward. As we were marching into the stadium, with me still apologizing, Mr Christianson, director of bands for the entire university, said to me, "It's all right; we were afraid you were _dead_ . We knew _you_ would never miss a game." One of the best compliments I ever received in my entire misbegotten life.
This movie teaches us to set difficult but achievable goals. He didn't set out to be an all-star QB or make it into the NFL. He recognized his limitations and decided that he just wanted to go to a difficult school and maybe play in one football game. Don't reach for the stars. You'll never reach the stars. Instead reach for something that's just out of reach.
Another great overcoming the odds movie like this with a similar dynamic is "October Sky". It's not a sports movie, but has the same feel to it. I love both movies equally.
From WV and I know the areas in October Sky and they really captured the local culture of the time well. Grew up near Charleston but family in the southern coal field areas. Even worked 2 years gaurding mine sites. The machine shops tend to be offsight contractors now but the mines still are set up like shown in the film.
Your display of a dog getting into a room through a door is priceless. That was great and one of the all timers in your reactions. Excellent reaction to a decent movie. Many people thing it’s great but I know many similar stories and some are more dynamic. But people love this and that’s great for them
Hi Dawn, excellent movie to react to!! I am not a Notre Dame fan, but this is one of my favorite movies and you did get the general meaning of the movie. To answer some of your questions. Our colleges and universities are on a 4 year term for undergrad work or Bachelor's degree. So Rudy went to Holy Cross, which is actually right across the street from Notre Dame (I live 20 minutes from South Bend and Notre Dame) Holy Cross is a junior college and students can go there to prove that they can achieve the academic standards of a full unit like ND. Rudy went there for two years and his last time applying got him in as ND will not accept transfers for Midterm Juniors or seniors which are students that have been at a university like ND for three or four years. Juniors are in their third year and Seniors are in their fourth year. The part where the players turn in their uniforms shows how much respect and admiration the guys on the team has for Rudy. In the 1970s you could only have about 70 players "dressed" for the game, today a team will usually have about 110. So several players on scholarship went even dressed to play. By Rudy's constant playing to the max the other players developed a respect for him. He became a team leader. So when they all did that it means every player wanted Rudy to take their place on the dressed team that weekend so he could be officially a member of the ND team. It is highly symbolic and a high honor for the team to do that. That was what the movie was trying to convey the deep respect Rudy earned from the other players. In actuality, Dan Devine the coach of ND wanted Rudy to dress as did many of the players. But the film did need to be a product of Hollywood, so we had the scene. You should check out some other sport films too. The Rookie with Dennis Quaid is true and really good. Field of Dreams is great. As is Invincible with Mark Wahlberg is very good too.
You missed your chance to convince Dawn that after they all handed in their jerseys, only Rudy showed up at the next game (since everyone else on the team said they didn't want to play in a game where Rudy dressed).
We usually have: Nursery (or Pre-K) ages up to 5. Elementary(Grade 1-5) Ages 6-11. Middle School (Grade 6-8) Ages 12-14. High School (Grade 9-12) Ages 15-18. Then we can do either Community College where you can get a 2 year degree and those classes usually transfer to University. University is usually 4 years unless you already have a 2 yr Community College degree then it's only 2 years.
In this city (Joliet)/part of the country that the movie is in, "middle school" is called junior high school. Also, it's "junior college" instead of community college. Joliet Junior College is actually the first junior/community college in the US.
Dunno when that changed but elementary was 1-6th grades, middle school 7-8th grades. Though could be based on area or state? Depending when during the school year you are born 14 or 15 for starting high school too. MD or TX my only middle school exp, 7-8. Variation and not even standard in the same state? Yeah I'd see why people get confused.
I watched this game live on TV. It was a true story and one of the best moments in sports. Rudy was an exceptional man. You would also really love "American Underdog" about Kurt and Brenda Warner. It is a love story and a story about Faith. Kurt was overlooked by everyone and was stocking shelves in a grocery store when he finally got a chance to play professional football. He became the league's MVP and the MVP of the Super Bowl. An amazing true story that you will fall in love with.
I had a girlfriend that used to boast no movie ever made her cry. She cried twice when we watched this together. First when Rudy led the team on the field and again with the final play. I didn't make fun of her because my throat was a little dry at the same time.
You might recognize the Notre Dame fight song from the movie "Airplane", when Lesley Nielsen is giving his "win one for the Zipper" speech... which is based upon a Ronald Reagan movie (who, at the time Airplane was being made, was running for President), "Knute Rockne All American"... a movie about the coach whose speech Rudy could recite from memory.
I grew up in an Irish family who were big fans of ND football. I remember that game vividly. It was so inspiring when they carried Rudy off the field. It is one of my best memories.
This was my favorite movie for a very long time. The piece about Devine not playing Rudy when he put the seniors in was added to create that incredible "Rudy" chant. The real Rudy asked Coach Devine if he would be ok with having that change made to the story to dramatize his entry into the game and Devine agreed. The play where he sacked the quarterback in his only play from scrimmage was real, though, except that it was he and another Irish defender that got to the quarterback at the same time for 1/2 sack each. Sean Astin who played Rudy said that one of the questions he was most asked was about whether Rudy was offsides on the play (he looks like he lines up in the "neutral zone" in the IRL play), but Astin has the most amazing reply, saying "it was never called offsides, so officially, it wasn't".
One of my top 3 films of all time. Only this and one other film can make me cry on cue. Fun Fact, the end of movie football scenes were filmed during halftime of a real Notre Dame games against Penn State University and Boston College. They had to do the shots real fast to fit inside the windows they were given.
His team was behind him because he was all about the team and a good team develops a good camaraderie. He earned there respect and they felt he earned the chance to official go on the record as being a team member.
Whenever I see the part where Sam starts carrying Frodo up the mountain I can't help but start chanting "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!" This is one of those movies where if I'm flipping channels on the TV and I come across this movie I have to stop and watch it.
Hi Dawn, responding to your comment in the beginning about not understanding American football, here it is in a nutshell. A field is 100 yards long, with a goal line at each end. 11 defensive players try and defend the goal line on their end of the field, from 11 offensive players trying to advance the ball across it. They get 4 attempts (called downs) to advance it 10 yards, achieving a new 'first down'. As long as they can keep advancing in these 10-yard increments, they retain possession of the ball. If they cannot achieve a new first down within the 4 attempts, the other team gets the ball and becomes the offense. The ball can be advanced by running it, or passing it to a receiver. Once the ball crosses the defense's goal line, that's a touchdown worth 6 points. An extra point can be achieved by kicking it between the goal posts. If the offensive team gets close to the goal, they can opt, in lieu of a touchdown, to kick a field goal, worth 3 points. There are a lot of other rules and nuances, but that's enough to get you started. And I say all that knowing you may have a better understanding by the end of the video, but I'm not that far yet. (And this may benefit others.) Cheers! :)
Remember the Titans or Friday night lights will give you a great idea of football with the former being a prime illustration of American civil rights changes and it's impact on highschool.
The stadium held about 59000 seats in the 1970s. Today the largest college football stadiums hold over 100,000 fans. 1 Michigan Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 107,601 2 Penn State Beaver Stadium (University Park, Pa.) 106,572 3 Ohio State Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio) 102,780 4 Texas A&M Kyle Field (College Station, Texas) 102,733 5 LSU Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.) 102,321 6 Tennessee Neyland Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.) 101,915 7 Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 101,821 8 Texas Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas)
As a short person that played American football I can say that in the past we did have an advantage to counteract the advantages of the 'talls' We could play closer to the ground than the 'talls' are comfortable playing. It was easy to get under them, to lift them up and then put them off their feet. In the '70s knee injuries (usually someone tall) became a problem so they started making rules against going for the legs. That took away the advantage of being low meaning you had to play up where the 'talls' are comfortable. College education is based on semesters. Two semesters per year for 4 years. Rudy went to Holy Cross for 4 semesters. He could apply to ND after each semester. Father Kavanah could recommend him but that would only result in a look. ND had it's on board that needed to approve him.
Two years ago I vacationed in Indiana. I went to South Bend and toured the campus of Notre Dame. Yes the place was like stepping into another planet. Holy Cross College is situated adjacent to Noter Dame. The campus of both places like another world.
Football in the US pretty much starts at the high school level. They play on Friday nights, college ball on Saturdays, and National is mostly on Sundays with a Monday night game and now Thursdays too. It's a huge business here.
I love your reactions and reviews. So, when you watch one of my all time top 10 of all time movies, well you made me happy. Fun reaction and review 👊🏻 RUDY RUDY RUDY!
at the near end of the game -- the team was on offense and the coach wanted them to run out the clock and win the game that way -- but the guys decided on their own to score again so that Rudy can be on-field - since he was a defensive player .... and since Rudy was known to outflank the offense players (small and quick) - he was able to (again: like in practice) to tackle the player before he even got across the scrimmage line (where the ball is placed) .... true story ....
I thought I'd do some size comparisons of Rudy to a couple of guys just drafted from college to the pros. Hopefully, I did the conversions right. Rudy Reuttiger is 1.68 meters (5'6") and 74.8 kilograms (165 lbs). A player by the name of Joe Ault was just drafted in the first round from Notre Dame. He plays the same position as the big guy who started the "Rudy" chant. Joe Ault is 2.06 meters (6'8") and 146 kilograms (322 lbs). Another player drafted is Xavier Worthy, who at 1.85 meters (6'1") and 78 kilograms (172 lbs) runs a sprinting test called the 40-yard dash (36.576 meters) in 4.21 seconds. World class sprinter Usain Bolt did the test in 4.22 seconds.
They didn’t have to become this amazing bonding team, for the players to realize Rudy deserved to dress for a game. Cuz of all the hard work he put in to help the team.
this movie is shown to young boys who have a football dream. it gives them tremendous drive. that chill you said you got is almost orgasmic for football players who watch this movie
If you're a fan of underdog films, you should check out Lucas. Lots of names you would recognize in a lovely story. "What happened?" Rudy tackled the ball carrier behind the line of scrimmage, which separates the offense from the defense. That's called a sack. It's a big deal because in American football, you have limited chances to move the ball ten yards or you lose possession (offense switches to defense). A sack means they have to move the ball even farther in those limited chances.
I love how she was upset about how he was spoken to in high school. We're talking about a catholic school in the 70s, being told he can't go on a field trip is probably the nicest thing that happened to him.
College football is huge in the United States and Notre Dame is considered one of the most prestigious programs in the country. Some college stadiums are larger than professional stadiums, seating well over 100,000 fans.
If I'm not mistaken, in order to play football or basketball for the University of Notre Dame you have to have a GPA of about 3.7. In the united states, it's very difficult to get into a university like Notre Dame.
Rudy Reuttiger was 5'6" 165 lbs. On his senior year there was a Freshman Offensive Lineman named Dave Huffman who would be drafted in 1979 into the NFL for the Minnesota Vikings. Huffman was 6'6" and 280 lbs(in 1975 he might have been only 240 lbs, men that large can put a lot of muscle mass on over four years). Rudy just wasn't much of an athlete, he was good enough for a Jesuit run High School in Illinois at a time when private Catholic High School did not play against the much larger and better(in terms of football) High Schools. Basically Rudy was trying to jump from the very bottom of Amatuer to the equivelent of League One in English Soccer.
When his Dad celebrates with the guy behind him on his right (dark coat with fur collar)..... That's the real Rudy
And sadly, he's a douchebag IRL. Google it.
Lol I was gonna post that but ya beat me to it...great film.
Oh wow! Didn’t know that, thx
" sometimes all you need is a dream and a good set of balls and your good to go " priceless
That came out nowhere when she said it 💀
I live in the State of Indiana, where South Bend and Notre Dame are located. We are big Notre Dame fans. Notre Dame is extremely hard to get into, and playing on the football team is even harder. When my daughter got the chance to play in the Notre Dame Band drumline and march on that field, she gave up swimming scholarships at other universities to do so. Every year before the football season starts, the students get their blankets, set on the field and watch Rudy on the big screen in the stadium. Notre Dame is a magical place (in our eyes).
I lived there about 5 mins from Notre Dame. After 12 years of shoveling snow I moved back to better climes. I miss the beauty of just looking at it. I could see it from my living room.
Even though I live about 4 hours from campus (Metro Detroit), I go as much for the prayerful reflection and mental health trips as I do for the football.
I graduated from Notre Dame. I was a freshman 2 years after Rudy's class (Joe Montana was a senior when I was a frosh, so Joe and Rudy were "teammates"!). Back then I eventually heard the story from upperclassmen who were at ND in 76 when Rudy was there, but it wasn't talked about or as well known then as it is now because of the movie.
My "mini Rudy" story was that I was the only person in my class from the entire St Louis area from a public high school that got into and went to Notre Dame (StL is a very Catholic city with a lot of private Catholic HS). I also helped work my way through Notre Dame by working in a steel factory 3 summers in a row. I kid you not.
One of my best buddies at ND was a huge Italian Offensive lineman from Chicago Heights in the far south suburbs. Their HS archrival was the school Rudy went to, Joliet Catholic. He was a 3rd/2nd teamer until a few games junior year and then finally started in senior year. It was pretty cool when we finally got to see him not only playing but starting. Since I lived in a dorm which housed a lot of the players, obviously I got to know a lot of them. (Crable, Gramke, Tony Hunter, Harry Oliver, Ron Mischke especially). I loved my 4 years there, it was such a special and yes, magical place.
So years later, in the early 90s, we go to a game (BYU I think?) on a beautiful fall weekend at ND, and we are walking around campus taking in all the traditional pre game festivities, including the band walkoff from the Golden Dome to the Stadium. We notice people dressed in strange "older clothing" lined up for the band walkoff. It just looked odd. And then I noticed a few cameras that were filming the band, but the cheerleaders had 70s style outfits that I recognized from my years in the late 70s. So we knew something was up but didn't know what was going on. So we followed the band to the stadium and finally asked someone what were they filming (I thought it might be for a sports special or documentary), and someone said "a movie about a player at Notre Dame" or something like that. Little did we know we were right on the fringes of a scene in RUDY! I've scoured the scene in slo mo several times and alas, we must have just missed being in the fringes of the scene, we're in the background somewhere.....
It was very surreal watching Rudy for the first time, because I had been in all those places, and walked over all that same ground (except the football practice fields). Even the Corbys bar scene rang so true (despite it being the "new" Corbvs, not the old 4 corner bar location). I got chills seeing my campus on the big screen like that. They did a heckuva job showing off the campus. Just a few years earlier a bunch of us (former roommates etc) had gone down to Phoenix to watch our alma mater win the National Championship over West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl. Shook Dan Devine's hand at the night before Pep Rally, Devine was our coach for 3 of my 4 years. Have been to about 25 football games since graduation. One of the last times I was up in South Bend was for Father Hesburgh's Memorial Mass/Funeral.
I treasure Notre Dame.
Your story reminded me of my time in grad school at LSU, I lived right next to the field that the Marching Band would practice on for the games. It got old really fast...hahaha. Have to admit, I have always enjoyed watching Notre Dame.
Those home games are amazing. One of my brothers did volunteer security at the home games for 10 years (yellow windbreakers and black slacks) until he got offered an usher position (long coats and bus-driver caps) and got paid to go to the home games for another 10 years.
The pressure of being the coach at Notre Dame is immense. You are talking about 160 years of tradition.
I spend 90% of this movie with tears welling up in my eyes. It kills me so much but I absolutely love it.
I'm not ashamed to admit that Rudy has made me cry more than once. Great movie
In the US Notre Dame college is pronounced NOTER DAYME, but if we are talking about the cathedral in France, we pronounce it by its original pronunciation. As for football, typically yes you have to be big to play certain positions, like offensive lineman and defensive lineman are easily over 6 feet tall and over 300 pounds. Also the father was very proud of his son, his reactions stem from the fact he was the son of immigrants who went through the Great Depression. This is why he tells Rudy the story of his father and his brothers being split up and sent away to live with relatives and friends. You see through out the movie the father telling his sons about good paying union jobs with benefits and security while being around family. He just wanted his son to stay grounded and have a good life with the security and the family he never had.
This movie makes me cry every time, when he gets into school, when they give up their jerseys, and then when they carry him off the field. Lol never fails. Thanks for this one! Holy crap I just realized that Dermot Mulroney was in this!
When he says “I’ve been ready for this my whole life” gets me.
The scene with the jerseys was just in the movie. In real life, the coach wanted him to play in that game to show his appreciation for all the hard work & dedication to the team.by Rudy.
Rudy had 13 siblings fyi, his father nearly went broke helping Rudy pay for college. Rudy was tiny as far as collegiate football defenseman go and he was dyslexic and had poor grades. It showed him working at a steel plant for 4 years but in real life he served 2 years on active duty in the Navy after high school then 2 years at the plant. One additional ND player has been carried off the field since this film was released.
1995 Marc Edwards when ND just destroyed #5 USC. Edwards ran for a TD, passed for a TD, blocked and picked up first downs.
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Edwards was carried off? Man, I don't remember that.
@@kbrewski1no one remembers players that don't cut it in the pro's, besides fans of the specific college team. I live in SB and the only player I remember is kmet because he became a chi bear. Unless you go way back in time and bring up Montana or Bettis.
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I know who Marc Edwards is. I just didn't remember him being carried off the field. I've seen just about every Notre Dame football game since 1978 (,and many before 78).
The scenes of the football game where Rudy played were shot at halftime of a real Notre Dame football game, so it was an actual crowd in the stands.
I was at a game in the early 90s (BYU I think) when they were filming some campus scenes, the band walkoff from the Dome steps to the stadium. I noticed people wearing "older clothing" and the cheerleaders wearing the old 70s unis. Turns out we later found out it was Rudy. We just missed being in the background of the walkoff!
They shot scenes during halftime of Notre Dame vs. Boston College -- if you look closely, you can see some fans still wearing BC fan clothes.
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Yep, most of the game scenes were at halftime of the Boston Coll game in 92. The Director had reserved that game and the following week vs Penn St to get the filming done. #8 ND was obliterating # 9 undefeated BC 37-0 at halftime. Then come the actors dressed as ND and Ga Tech football players and play during halftime. I bet that was confusing to many. The actual ND players apparently didn't know what was going on according to a story I read. ND ended up winning the BC game 54-7. They still had to film some additional crowd scenes but the next week's Penn St game turned into the famous last second victory, The Snow Bowl. So the director couldn't use snowy footage on Sat, and they had to shoot Sunday for the final in the stands scenes with Rudy's Dad etc (Ned Beatty). If you notice those scenes they are really bundled up and freezing. ND had to entice a few thousand people to show up on that cold Sunday with a few giveaways.
I was at the mid October BYU game that same year, when they filmed the pre game stuff I mentioned with the band, cheerleaders etc. That was a nice sunny day and you can tell in those few quick scenes that I almost got in. ND shellacked BYU that day too.
Notre Dame is truly a special place. It's difficult to describe to those who haven't gone there, but being a part of that community is amazing.
Now you've got to watch the greatest sports movie of them all, which is "Miracle." It's a true story and Kurt Russell's performance is out of this world. Give it a shot.
Yes, Miracle is a great movie and much more true to the facts than Rudy is
I can't watch that movie. I REMEMBER the events of that era. What it meant to us as Americans.
I watch that movie nowadays, and I'm almost certain to get a visit from the Secret Service for my remarks about our gov't today.
@Hiraghm You and me both. 😄😄😄😄 Too good of a movie, though. I'll take my chances and live on the edge.
Not even close. It’s Slapshot. Followed by Major League, Goon, Bend it Like Beckham, Longest Yard, The Sandlot, Mystery Alaska and Remember the Titans.
@@dnish6673 Just say no to drugs.
I attended Notre Dame from 91-95. My roommate was the stand-in for Sean Astin. We had a choice of going to class or being an extra in a movie, getting paid, and being fed better than dining hall food. We chose screw class. I was an extra in a bunch of bar and classroom scenes. We thought the movie was going to be terrible and when we watched the premier in South Bend we all cried. I have an ND football signed by both the real Rudy and Sean Astin that sits on my mantle. Go Irish!
Also, FYI, this is the movie where Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau were struggling actors and met each other and came up with the idea for Swingers.
Yes American football is a massive thing, it is THE massive thing - both pro and college. The annual NFL draft was just held last week in Detroit and it drew 775,000 people just to watch players be picks by various teams! 😮
If you’re interested in another good football movie based on a true story, I would highly recommend “Remember the Titans” with Denzel Washington. I would also recommend the movie “Miracle,” with Kurt Russell based on the 1980 US Olympic hockey team.
To be fair, Detroit just tends to show up when there's something to do. The previous attendance record was 300k
He wrote a book about how he got the movie made. It took about as much determination to get the studios to make the movie as him getting to play for ND. It's quite a story.
It took that much to get the movie made because the whole story is fake. All of his teammates have said he didn't work harder than anyone else on the team. And no one in the audience ever knew who he was
Rudy's dad (Ned Beatty) was made famous in his acting debut with the most infamous scene in cinema history. (Deliverance)
The Director of this film had earlier directed another American sports classic about "underdogs", called HOOSIERS. A basketball movie, also ironically set in the State of Indiana. Rudy pestered this director to film his story until he agreed. Its a FANTASTIC movie, a gem you will also love, well worth reacting to!!
"Why are you crying? Did you just watch Rudy?" - Doug Glatt
Great flick.
If you're looking for other underdog stories, hands down you need to watch 'Miracle' about the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team.
It was Rudy’s heart and commitment. When he was taking all those hard hits as a tackling dummy so the team could train and he still give 100 percent He earned everyone’s respect and the team felt Rudy deserved to live that moment that was the culmination of his life long dream.
Dawn, follow this video with a reaction to “Hoosiers,” a great small budget film about a small high school basketball team going to the state championship and the importance of giving people 2nd chances in life. All the young actors were amateurs but could play the American game of basketball. The main character actor was Gene Hackman which you just watched in the “Porsiden Adventure. “. And this gave the actor playing “Shooter” ( I forgot his name, yikes !!! ) which restarted his career to play the bad guy in the movie “Speed.” UR the best, keep rolling with the reactions !!!😃😎👍
Dennis Hopper was Shooter.
You didn't mention that the Director of Hoosiers also directed Rudy. Rudy pestered and lobbied him for years to direct his story.
Yes and he was in Unforgiven which she just watched too.
This film has one of my favorite scores of any film.
Same director as Hoosiers too.
The "dog with his head in the door" bit is one of the best things you've done on this channel yet!
Just tremendous stuff, keep it up Dawn
@EllisThings I can always count on DAWN to have some colourful way to express herself !!
great reaction from DAWN ! to an inspiring movie !🙌
One of the best film soundtracks of all time. Just that music is inspiring.
Rudy did motivational speaking tours in the mid-90's. When he had a stop at our college, I got tickets and got to see him and hear him speak. Part of his talk was about the film, what was real and what was fantasy. The whole "wise janitor" thing was complete fabrication, but for the most part, the film did a pretty good job of telling the his story.
Also they never laid their jerseys on Dan Devine's desk. It makes for a good story, but Devine said if that really happened, those players would've been gone. He was also not happy that the writers/directors made him the villain. It was his idea to dress and play Rudy.
Before Samwise saved Middle Earth. He saved the football game.
Before he saved the football game, He saves us from vampires in the Lost Boys.
He also showed us One-Eyed Willie.
Also saved a caveman😃
@@razorsfury6519lol yeah specially since it was the last play of the game and Notre Dame was up by 20 pts
He wasn't in that@@razorsfury6519
Bout Damn time one of the reaction sites I follow watched Rudy! Thanks!
Not a big sports fan myself but this is a true story gem of inspiration. Not one I would watch often but I still have a soft spot for.
I love this movie it never fails to bring the tears. The music score is just beautiful.
Another great time spent with you. Thanks for sharing.
That's right he is Samwise, he is Rudy, he was Mikey from the Goonies, and he was Drew Barrymore's brother in 50 first dates with Adam Sandler.
Jon Favreau was on Friends for a season, and he also directs and plays "Happy" in the Iron Man/Spiderman movies. He got his start with Vince Vaughn in the movie they wrote called SWINGERS.
And, he was the personal trainer that Adam Sandler's wife marries in "Click"
He’s Bob (Stranger Things).
@mikefetterman6782 That's an impressive career he's had not surprising he was raised by actors his Mother is Patty Duke [The Miracle Worker ] and his stepfather is John Astin [The original Gomez Addams from the Addams family tv series .
And i love all those performances of SEAN'S you listed . 😃
Rudy applied for transfer to Notre Dame after every semester at Holy, he did it 4 times and was finally accepted on his 4th and final eligible attempt. So, he went into Notre Dame his Junior year - with 2 full years (4 semesters) of college under his belt.
Yes, in reality he would not have been able to transfer until he completed the 2 years at Holy Cross due to NDs very strict transfer rules, or after 1 year if you have outstanding credentials and satisfied the frosh requirements(one of my best friends at ND had transferred from Marquette after freshman year). So I think they played up the multiple rejection letters for movie effect. He probably got rejected after 1 year, not after each semester.
@@kbrewski1 Nope, he was rejected 3 times in total - each semester. Transfer rules have changed wildly since this occurred.
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How do you know he applied and was rejected 3 times from Holy Cross?
@@kbrewski1 Book about his life, served in the navy after high school, used GI bill and dad's savings to pay for Holy Cross.
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Yes, I know all that. Rudy was prone to "exaggerate" and stretch some things. I was a freshman at ND 2 years after he graduated. On my dorm floor that year, my section was full of a bunch of juniors and seniors that knew him.
For one thing, it would make absolutely no sense for Rudy to apply after his 1st semester in junior college. They even told him, go for a year, see what happens. So MAYBE he applied at the end of his 1st junior college year, and then again after his 2nd year, when he was admitted. Again, I learned a lot about the transfer process when this Marquette grad transferred in before soph year.
Just for added context --- this movie is based on a true story. Rudy is a real person. The University of Notre Dame in Indiana (USA), a Catholic university, is one of the top universities in the USA, and has a storied football (American Football) history. Remember, this isn't professional football...it's college (university) football, where different universities play against each other. College Football is huge in the USA, with big schools such as Notre Dame having their own stadiums that can hold between 80,000 to 100,000 spectators. Anyway, the school's football team typically produces players every year who then go on to play professional football in the NFL. The students who receive scholarships to play for the school are usually among the top high school footballers in the country....so, a high school player has to be among the elite to even be scouted by Notre Dame's scouts. Rudy was nowhere remotely close to that class of players....he was just a local boy, with below average talent, but a lot of heart and will. And yes, while the University of Notre Dame is competitive to get into (although not as competitive to get into when compared to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, Cornell, Oxford, Cambridge etc), it is one of the most popular schools that graduating high school seniors with good grades apply to.
I believe Rudy was an all conference DB/LB at Joliet Catholic, a perennial HS powerhouse. So he was good in HS, but not quite big enough to get a look by Div 1 schools.
As far as competitiveness to get in, yes the Ivy League schools are ALL vastly over applied to because people who want to get into Ivies usually apply to ALL THE IVIES, especially these days with computer applications. And there are a fair amount of students who have no intention of going to an Ivy (cost), but will apply to a few Ivies in the hopes of being able to say "I got into an Ivy!". That distorts the numbers quite a bit. Plus, Notre Dame as a primarily Catholic school will not be applied to by as many Jewish and Muslim students, and even many "Evangelical Christians" will shy away from ND. So they weed themselves out.
The amount of incredibly high test scoring perfect straight A students ND still must reject to fill its 2000 student classes (back in 74/75 the classes were about 1500 spots) is amazing. I heard a recent stat about how many HS Valedictorians they deny every year, and it was stunning.
In sum, I'll gladly take my ND degree over one from Cornell, Columbia, NYU any day. ND grads are highly sought after in the job market for more than just book grades, and employers view ND grads very highly because of many intangible factors. ND is right up there with schools like Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt and Washington Univ academically.
Ayyyyy.....Rudy!! He's from my hometown! Also famous from my hometown is the prison used in Blues Brothers (as in "Joliet Jake") and the tv show Prison Break. Nick Offerman, Melissa McCarthy, and uhh...Andy Dick (and some more people). Also, it's the origin of Dairy Queen and Tastee Freeze (from the John Cougar Mellencamp song). That is all. I'm done bragging about my hometown :)
The real Rudy, or the actor Sean Astin?
@@jackmessick2869 The real Rudy. Sean Astin was born in California to his famous mom, Patty Duke. His stepdad was the father in The Addams Family.
Joliet Catholic. Tom Thayer was an alum who went to ND to play football (and started). A few years behind my class.
Rudy was 27 his senior year at Notre Dame, he was a defensive end.
when they all put down their uniforms is soooo cool. love this movie
Love this gem! You will love it!
I may be biased because ive been an Irish fan all my life but Rudy is my all time favorite sports movie & just love it so much!!!! If you know the legacy & tradition of Notre Dame, youll appreciate the movie so much more! Gives me chill everytime i see a a famous landmark accompanied by the incredible score featuring the most iconic fight song in college. Been to South Bend 3 times & i love it more every time! Thank you fot reviewing Rudy because its rarely ever reviewed...Go Irish 🍀
The part where it says about him getting carried off the field makes me cry every time.
One of the most enjoyable times of my life was when I was in college and played in the marching band.
Every weekend we'd get to perform pre-game and halftime shows, and we'd spend the rest of the time in the stands watching the game and encouraging the fans to cheer for our team.
Friday night I'd go to a local bar with other band members and perform fight songs every 15 minutes for a free pitcher of Bud Light every hour; wake up at the crack of dawn on Saturday, head for Perkins where all the music majors met (I wasn't a music major; my major was playing video games and skipping physics lectures). Then we all would head over to the music building to haul the equipment to the stadium for the game.
Then we would have our practice _in_ the stadium. Then, about 9 or 10 o'clock, we'd leave and have to be back by noon for the pre-game show.
I would perform at the pre-game show, go around with the "pep band", performing, then do the halftime show... after the game I would help haul the equipment back to the music building. It was a very... very long day and I loved every minute of it. Except it was exhausting.
The band had two iron-clad, unbreakable rules; miss a practice, you can't perform in the next game. Miss a game, and you're out of the band, period, no appeal.
One Saturday, I made the mistake of laying on my bed after the Saturday practice... I woke up about 15 minutes before the pre-game started.
I hopped in my little two-seater sports car, and raced to the stadium, defying death the whole way, absolutely terrified that I was out of the band.
I got there just as the band was about to enter the stadium. Not only was my coach there, but the head of the entire music department of the university.
I began apologizing profusely, trying to explain, as the band members around me reversed my overlay that I'd put on backward.
As we were marching into the stadium, with me still apologizing, Mr Christianson, director of bands for the entire university, said to me, "It's all right; we were afraid you were _dead_ . We knew _you_ would never miss a game."
One of the best compliments I ever received in my entire misbegotten life.
This movie teaches us to set difficult but achievable goals. He didn't set out to be an all-star QB or make it into the NFL. He recognized his limitations and decided that he just wanted to go to a difficult school and maybe play in one football game. Don't reach for the stars. You'll never reach the stars. Instead reach for something that's just out of reach.
Another great overcoming the odds movie like this with a similar dynamic is "October Sky". It's not a sports movie, but has the same feel to it. I love both movies equally.
From WV and I know the areas in October Sky and they really captured the local culture of the time well. Grew up near Charleston but family in the southern coal field areas. Even worked 2 years gaurding mine sites. The machine shops tend to be offsight contractors now but the mines still are set up like shown in the film.
@@charlesmaurer6214 Cool, thanks for sharing!
Your display of a dog getting into a room through a door is priceless. That was great and one of the all timers in your reactions.
Excellent reaction to a decent movie. Many people thing it’s great but I know many similar stories and some are more dynamic. But people love this and that’s great for them
Hi Dawn, excellent movie to react to!! I am not a Notre Dame fan, but this is one of my favorite movies and you did get the general meaning of the movie.
To answer some of your questions. Our colleges and universities are on a 4 year term for undergrad work or Bachelor's degree. So Rudy went to Holy Cross, which is actually right across the street from Notre Dame (I live 20 minutes from South Bend and Notre Dame) Holy Cross is a junior college and students can go there to prove that they can achieve the academic standards of a full unit like ND. Rudy went there for two years and his last time applying got him in as ND will not accept transfers for Midterm Juniors or seniors which are students that have been at a university like ND for three or four years. Juniors are in their third year and Seniors are in their fourth year.
The part where the players turn in their uniforms shows how much respect and admiration the guys on the team has for Rudy. In the 1970s you could only have about 70 players "dressed" for the game, today a team will usually have about 110. So several players on scholarship went even dressed to play. By Rudy's constant playing to the max the other players developed a respect for him. He became a team leader. So when they all did that it means every player wanted Rudy to take their place on the dressed team that weekend so he could be officially a member of the ND team. It is highly symbolic and a high honor for the team to do that. That was what the movie was trying to convey the deep respect Rudy earned from the other players. In actuality, Dan Devine the coach of ND wanted Rudy to dress as did many of the players. But the film did need to be a product of Hollywood, so we had the scene.
You should check out some other sport films too. The Rookie with Dennis Quaid is true and really good. Field of Dreams is great. As is Invincible with Mark Wahlberg is very good too.
You missed your chance to convince Dawn that after they all handed in their jerseys, only Rudy showed up at the next game (since everyone else on the team said they didn't want to play in a game where Rudy dressed).
Not to mention Hoosiers, by the same Director who directed Rudy. (David Anspaugh)
Always love your reactions. The perfect balance of naivety with sarcasm.
Never change the way you talk. Your voice is divine.
We usually have: Nursery (or Pre-K) ages up to 5. Elementary(Grade 1-5) Ages 6-11. Middle School (Grade 6-8) Ages 12-14. High School (Grade 9-12) Ages 15-18. Then we can do either Community College where you can get a 2 year degree and those classes usually transfer to University. University is usually 4 years unless you already have a 2 yr Community College degree then it's only 2 years.
In this city (Joliet)/part of the country that the movie is in, "middle school" is called junior high school. Also, it's "junior college" instead of community college. Joliet Junior College is actually the first junior/community college in the US.
Dunno when that changed but elementary was 1-6th grades, middle school 7-8th grades. Though could be based on area or state?
Depending when during the school year you are born 14 or 15 for starting high school too. MD or TX my only middle school exp, 7-8.
Variation and not even standard in the same state? Yeah I'd see why people get confused.
What you call "middle school" we called "junior high". Because we had balls in those days.
This is one of my all-time favourite movies... so, happy that you decided to review it.
I watched this game live on TV. It was a true story and one of the best moments in sports. Rudy was an exceptional man. You would also really love "American Underdog" about Kurt and Brenda Warner. It is a love story and a story about Faith. Kurt was overlooked by everyone and was stocking shelves in a grocery store when he finally got a chance to play professional football. He became the league's MVP and the MVP of the Super Bowl. An amazing true story that you will fall in love with.
I had a girlfriend that used to boast no movie ever made her cry. She cried twice when we watched this together. First when Rudy led the team on the field and again with the final play. I didn't make fun of her because my throat was a little dry at the same time.
We had the real Rudy come to our school as a motivational speaker.
Me too I was in 4th grade, they showed us the movie before he was coming in, I went to a Catholic elementary school as well
@@laurenherda2415 grade 11 secualr school for is. Also gifted our library with a copy of his book "Rudy's Rules."
Ruddy Ruddy Ruddy... Great movie thanks for sharing Dawn Marie ❤️💛
You might recognize the Notre Dame fight song from the movie "Airplane", when Lesley Nielsen is giving his "win one for the Zipper" speech...
which is based upon a Ronald Reagan movie (who, at the time Airplane was being made, was running for President), "Knute Rockne All American"... a movie about the coach whose speech Rudy could recite from memory.
I grew up in an Irish family who were big fans of ND football. I remember that game vividly. It was so inspiring when they carried Rudy off the field. It is one of my best memories.
That was the real Rudy Ruettiger sitting behind Ned Beatty in the stands.
So weird. I just watched this movie yesterday and here pops up your reaction the day after. Cheers!
This was my favorite movie for a very long time. The piece about Devine not playing Rudy when he put the seniors in was added to create that incredible "Rudy" chant. The real Rudy asked Coach Devine if he would be ok with having that change made to the story to dramatize his entry into the game and Devine agreed. The play where he sacked the quarterback in his only play from scrimmage was real, though, except that it was he and another Irish defender that got to the quarterback at the same time for 1/2 sack each. Sean Astin who played Rudy said that one of the questions he was most asked was about whether Rudy was offsides on the play (he looks like he lines up in the "neutral zone" in the IRL play), but Astin has the most amazing reply, saying "it was never called offsides, so officially, it wasn't".
Love this movie! Such a great story! Thank you, Dawn dear, for sharing this one with us. 🙂
One of my top 3 films of all time. Only this and one other film can make me cry on cue. Fun Fact, the end of movie football scenes were filmed during halftime of a real Notre Dame games against Penn State University and Boston College. They had to do the shots real fast to fit inside the windows they were given.
His team was behind him because he was all about the team and a good team develops a good camaraderie. He earned there respect and they felt he earned the chance to official go on the record as being a team member.
Whenever I see the part where Sam starts carrying Frodo up the mountain I can't help but start chanting "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!"
This is one of those movies where if I'm flipping channels on the TV and I come across this movie I have to stop and watch it.
This movie is where Hollywood's greatest bromance started as it was where Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn first met.
I love her Terminator Arnold shirt.
Hi Dawn, responding to your comment in the beginning about not understanding American football, here it is in a nutshell. A field is 100 yards long, with a goal line at each end. 11 defensive players try and defend the goal line on their end of the field, from 11 offensive players trying to advance the ball across it. They get 4 attempts (called downs) to advance it 10 yards, achieving a new 'first down'. As long as they can keep advancing in these 10-yard increments, they retain possession of the ball. If they cannot achieve a new first down within the 4 attempts, the other team gets the ball and becomes the offense. The ball can be advanced by running it, or passing it to a receiver. Once the ball crosses the defense's goal line, that's a touchdown worth 6 points. An extra point can be achieved by kicking it between the goal posts. If the offensive team gets close to the goal, they can opt, in lieu of a touchdown, to kick a field goal, worth 3 points. There are a lot of other rules and nuances, but that's enough to get you started. And I say all that knowing you may have a better understanding by the end of the video, but I'm not that far yet. (And this may benefit others.) Cheers! :)
Yes, he is the rich guy in Friends. He is also in the Iron Man and Avengers movies and has directed a number of movies.
Dawn's Scottish accent: the ohs:the knows and goes ❤😂
And as always great reaction
Always a great reaction with you!
Remember the Titans or Friday night lights will give you a great idea of football with the former being a prime illustration of American civil rights changes and it's impact on highschool.
I'm from Odessa. You won't get the real feel until you sit in a sold out Ratliff Stadium WITH standing room only in the end zones.
The stadium held about 59000 seats in the 1970s. Today the largest college football stadiums hold over 100,000 fans. 1 Michigan Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 107,601
2 Penn State Beaver Stadium (University Park, Pa.) 106,572
3 Ohio State Ohio Stadium (Columbus, Ohio) 102,780
4 Texas A&M Kyle Field (College Station, Texas) 102,733
5 LSU Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge, La.) 102,321
6 Tennessee Neyland Stadium (Knoxville, Tenn.) 101,915
7 Alabama Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 101,821
8 Texas Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Austin, Texas)
I’ve literally seen this movie over 50 times maybe more . But haven’t watched it for at least 8 yrs . Ty
I grew up 15 miles from Notre dame. All of my family worked in the steel mills. I'll just say we love this movie lol
As a short person that played American football I can say that in the past we did have an advantage to counteract the advantages of the 'talls'
We could play closer to the ground than the 'talls' are comfortable playing. It was easy to get under them, to lift them up and then put them off their feet.
In the '70s knee injuries (usually someone tall) became a problem so they started making rules against going for the legs. That took away the advantage of being low meaning you had to play up where the 'talls' are comfortable.
College education is based on semesters. Two semesters per year for 4 years. Rudy went to Holy Cross for 4 semesters. He could apply to ND after each semester. Father Kavanah could recommend him but that would only result in a look. ND had it's on board that needed to approve him.
Yes, that is the guy from Friends who was trying to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion
Glad you watched this underdog story. I hope you get to Hoosiers with Gene Hackman (Lex Luther)
a nice tie-in: Rudy's dad, Ned Beatty, played Lex Luthor's sidekick, Otis
Two years ago I vacationed in Indiana. I went to South Bend and toured the campus of Notre Dame. Yes the place was like stepping into another planet. Holy Cross College is situated adjacent to Noter Dame. The campus of both places like another world.
The actual Rudy is sitting behind the family during the game. You see him briefly after Rudy makes the tackle.
Football in the US pretty much starts at the high school level. They play on Friday nights, college ball on Saturdays, and National is mostly on Sundays with a Monday night game and now Thursdays too. It's a huge business here.
I love your reactions and reviews. So, when you watch one of my all time top 10 of all time movies, well you made me happy. Fun reaction and review 👊🏻 RUDY RUDY RUDY!
The Actor that played Rudy's father is famous for his role in a movie called Deliverance.
"I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!"
Dawn I love listening to you talk. What you say and how you say it!
at the near end of the game -- the team was on offense and the coach wanted them to run out the clock and win the game that way -- but the guys decided on their own to score again so that Rudy can be on-field - since he was a defensive player .... and since Rudy was known to outflank the offense players (small and quick) - he was able to (again: like in practice) to tackle the player before he even got across the scrimmage line (where the ball is placed) .... true story ....
This movie makes me cry every time I watch it this in my top 2 of sports movies awesome reaction Dawn.
I thought I'd do some size comparisons of Rudy to a couple of guys just drafted from college to the pros. Hopefully, I did the conversions right.
Rudy Reuttiger is 1.68 meters (5'6") and 74.8 kilograms (165 lbs). A player by the name of Joe Ault was just drafted in the first round from Notre Dame. He plays the same position as the big guy who started the "Rudy" chant. Joe Ault is 2.06 meters (6'8") and 146 kilograms (322 lbs). Another player drafted is Xavier Worthy, who at 1.85 meters (6'1") and 78 kilograms (172 lbs) runs a sprinting test called the 40-yard dash (36.576 meters) in 4.21 seconds. World class sprinter Usain Bolt did the test in 4.22 seconds.
when she said "look buddy" she wasn't calling him buddy by name but out of anger
Great flick! I played football with the boys in the neighborhood and LOVED IT! I can relate to Rudy, even though I'm 5'11" . . .
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
They didn’t have to become this amazing bonding team, for the players to realize Rudy deserved to dress for a game. Cuz of all the hard work he put in to help the team.
19:27 is my Favorite Band Song!!! Notre Dame Band is Amazing!
this movie is shown to young boys who have a football dream. it gives them tremendous drive. that chill you said you got is almost orgasmic for football players who watch this movie
Clyde Edwards-Helaire 5"7 LSU, Kansas City Chiefs. A little tank. I'd buy a Clyde jersey. You couldn't pay me to wear a Travis Kelce jersey. 🤣
If you're a fan of underdog films, you should check out Lucas. Lots of names you would recognize in a lovely story.
"What happened?"
Rudy tackled the ball carrier behind the line of scrimmage, which separates the offense from the defense. That's called a sack. It's a big deal because in American football, you have limited chances to move the ball ten yards or you lose possession (offense switches to defense). A sack means they have to move the ball even farther in those limited chances.
I love how she was upset about how he was spoken to in high school. We're talking about a catholic school in the 70s, being told he can't go on a field trip is probably the nicest thing that happened to him.
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is...never try - Homer Simpson
College football is huge in the United States and Notre Dame is considered one of the most prestigious programs in the country. Some college stadiums are larger than professional stadiums, seating well over 100,000 fans.
If I'm not mistaken, in order to play football or basketball for the University of Notre Dame you have to have a GPA of about 3.7.
In the united states, it's very difficult to get into a university like Notre Dame.
American football 🏈 is so big here we can't comprehend any other country liking any sport as much 😅
8:06 comment,, yes it's called stadium.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Minus the football and homelessness, I'm a Rudy myself
Just completed my 4th year of college after working hard to get there in the first place
Rudy Reuttiger was 5'6" 165 lbs. On his senior year there was a Freshman Offensive Lineman named Dave Huffman who would be drafted in 1979 into the NFL for the Minnesota Vikings. Huffman was 6'6" and 280 lbs(in 1975 he might have been only 240 lbs, men that large can put a lot of muscle mass on over four years). Rudy just wasn't much of an athlete, he was good enough for a Jesuit run High School in Illinois at a time when private Catholic High School did not play against the much larger and better(in terms of football) High Schools. Basically Rudy was trying to jump from the very bottom of Amatuer to the equivelent of League One in English Soccer.