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[blaseblasphemener]

I just finished watching the movie, Field of Dreams. Now I feel like writing about it.

I watch this movie and it makes me cry every time. I've seen it so many times, but this movie chokes me up, in a few places. The ending, when he meets his dad, and they are talking and they shake hands, so you know things are finally right with them; then Ray says, "Dad, do you want to have a catch?" Is there any more touching scene in a movie?

When Doc Graham comes off the field to save the little girl, only to know he cannot ever play again. As he's walking off, the ball players all tip their caps. Then Shoeless Joe yells, "Hey Rookie. You were good."


I watch this movie, and it makes me want to run out and buy a Volkswagon, and start protesting the world we live in.

When Mann says, "There comes a time when all the cosmic tumbers have clicked into place and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show us what's possible."

Where is the hope, the belief in a better world, the idealism, on this planet, today? Makes me wish that I had experienced the 60s, to at least have been in a world where believing in those kinds of things was not considered hopeless.

It's a movie about hope, but I think we've lost that these days. We have hope for more money, or for success, but I think our world is getting worse, not better. Everything is for the economy now. I look at Korea, and I see a microcosm of this. Everything is for jobs and money, everything. My parents and grandparents worked as hard as anyone, but we still got to go outside to play, and we didn't study constantly, and we didn't spend our time on the computer.

I just ask, how did we get where we are today? Where is all of this heading? I think we are on a cliff. Something has to stop this path we are on. I don't think this world is built for nostalgia, but where is all of this heading? I've been reading the zen of motorcycle repair, and it talks about this, about scientific reason's shortcomings.

I hope something will happen to change all this. We need a revolution like the 60s again. We need a cleansing of this ugly, material, dirty, black, anti-humane world we find ourselves in today.

I know I sound wack, but sometimes you get that feeling of how f!@#ed things are, and you need to vent. Maybe that's why so many of us dream of living on a beach somewhere, at least for a little while. To clear our minds of all this ridiculousness.

Anyways, love that movie.

[riley]

Yeah, me too.
It's the scene with Doc Graham changing from the young boy into his real self, the doctor.

[whitebeagle]

I guess it is quite a unique movie, so unusual for Kevin Costner to star in an emotionally exploitative sentimental slush-fest

[heydelores]

Much of the movie was filmed in and around my hometown in Illinois. The scene in the newspaper office was filmed 5 doors down from my house!

[HapKi]

Yes, good movie about following through with a dream.

The brother-in-law character really annoyed me. Kept saying, "You'll lose the farm. You'll lose the farm." Yet, as anyone whose been to Iowa and seen the miles and miles of corn fields will tell you, setting aside a small plot to make a baseball field isn't really going to make a difference in your overall harvest. Or maybe I'm missing something.

The field's still there in Dyersville, Iowa, and open to the public.
http://www.fieldofdreamsmoviesite.com/distance.html

[Woland]

The book that it is based on, Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella, is so much better than the movie. This is largely because of the use of J. D. Salinger in the book in place of the made-up figure played by James Earl Jones in the movie. I'm guessing legal reasons prevented the use of Salinger's name in the movie.

The movie's not bad, but way below the book.

[riley]

Thanks for the mention, will have to look it up.
Yeah, Kevin Costner can be pretty hokey but still, I liked it alot.

[blaseblasphemener]

Wikipedia:


The movie was directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The character played by Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, was a real baseball player. The background of the character is based on his true life, with a few factual liberties taken for artistic reasons.

The character played by James Earl Jones, the fictional author Terence Mann, is based on the author J. D. Salinger in the original novel. In 1947, the real Salinger wrote a story called A Young Girl In 1941 With No Waist At All, featuring a character named Ray Kinsella.

The restored relationship between protagonist Kinsella and his father is notable for making male viewers cry. Psychiatrist Dr. Mark Goulston, writing for the October 2005 issue of Readers Digest, quotes psychologist David Powell "There's a 95% tear factor when a group of men watch Field of Dreams... Sports is the archetypal bond between men and their fathers, and for most men the most primitive, important relationship in their lives is with their dads."

[Junior]

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[Doogie]

Yea, I loved the movie, too. Kinsella was a huge fan of Salinger. There was a television show on not long ago that went through the 100 most famous sayings or expressions in the movies(all time). "If you build it, they will come." was in the top 100. Personally my favorite was Bogie in Casablanca....."Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."..........classic.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I love the movie, too. I even have a t-shirt from the movie set outside Dyersville. One of my prized possessions. (I always wondered about that crack about losing the farm, too. If you have 600 or 1200 acres of corn planted, you ain't gonna miss the income from one acre or less.)

I remember going up to Council Bluffs to watch the movie at the mall when it was just out...and feeling silly as hell sitting there at the end with tears streaming down my face.

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