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Gordy often had a reckless but well-intentioned disregard for spending and would tell his director, "Forget about the money, Furie! We're making a classic!" For the first time in Furie's career, a picture of his went over budget. Halfway through the filming, they had used up 95 percent of the $2 million Paramount had given them. Gordy ventured to the office of Frank Yablans to get Paramount to invest more money in the project, believing that requesting a budget hike in Hollywood was a common thing. Yablans steadfastly refused, stating, "The most we've ever given a black film is $500,000. We're giving you $2 million, and you're over budget!" Gordy, adamant that it was not aboard to practice for the movie sequence," says Andrew Stevens. The Panaglide, an experimental prototype for the Panavision version of the Steadicam, was used to give the sequence's fast movement a fluidity and grace. Approximately five hundred extras were packed into the scene, most of them local Filipinos. In the midst of shooting, a man stood up in the stands holding a .45 caliber gun, screaming, "Stop! Thief! Stop!" This man jumped the divider, tore out onto the playing field, and fired the gun. "It sounded like a fucking cannon, so everyone hit the deck," Andre Morgan recalls, laughing. "Sidney, because it wasn't in the script, just said, 'What's that?' When he saw the guy in the middle of the field, he pointed to him and yelled, 'You,