The film took a total of 250 hours of material, the latter part of the clip took two years. When editing, the director determined a central line of thought: to narrate strictly around the two protagonists, and delete all the content that is not closely related to the realization of the two Hoop Dreams, so the duration of the film is less than 170 minutes. Although, this makes many plots of the film lack continuity, such as the audience can't know when Gates got married and where his father went. But the choreographer believes that this is not necessarily related to the realization of Gates' Hoop Dreams. The director spends space to tell the story of Gates’ brother because he puts his unrealized ideal on his younger brother, showing that Gates’s Hoop Dreams is not just his own dream, so that the audience can appreciate what Gates has said. heavy pressure to bear force
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Hoop Dreams Editing principle
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Extended Reading
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William Gates: That's something I dream and think about all the time, you know, playin' in the NBA.
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Self - Arthur's Mother: He *dreams* about it. He look at those basketball commercials where they be advertising these Nike shoes and he'll tell - he'll tell his little smaller brother, "Joe, Joe, that's me."