They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it, for it is money they have and peace they lack. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say.
They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. Remember, this is James Earl Jones talking in that wonderful voice of his, the voice without which Darth Vader might have sounded like Woody Allen, so the speech carries a great deal of conviction: Mann explicates his vision of baseball, capitalism, and dead guys in a long, sentimental speech. That's somehow worse than throwing games.īut I digress.
TERANCE MANN AUTHOR SERIES
At that point, Mann has an epiphany: Ray will save his farm by charging besotted baseball fans money to come watch disgraced dead ballplayers, as well as some non-disgraced ones, such as Smoky Joe Wood, Mel Ott, and Gil Hodges - though not Ty Cobb, who has been refused not because he was a racist, not because he was prone to violence or slid spikes high, but because he was a "son of a bitch." Think about that: Chick Gandil and Swede Risberg, who arranged the 1919 World Series fix, get to come back from the afterworld Hell and play baseball but Ty Cobb doesn't because, you know, he played with a nigh-psychotic, but honest, intensity. The film climaxes (SPOILERS) when the bank, personified by Ray's obnoxious brother-in-law, threatens to repossess his now crop-less farm. Eventually they, as well as another resurrected ballplayer, the real-life one-game wonder " Moonlight Graham" (Burt Lancaster) end up back in Iowa watching a whole roster of ghostly ballplayers playing intramural games.
The voice speaks to Ray again saying, "Ease his pain," and Ray decides this means he should go unearth famously reclusive author Terrance Mann, portrayed by James Earl Jones. He eventually brings the rest of the banned/dead Black Sox with him and they start working out. Subsequently, the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson (played by "Goodfellas" Ray Liotta as if Joe Jackson had never even heard of South Carolina, let alone had been born, lived, and died there - oh, and he's a right-handed hitter now) appears on the diamond. One day, he hears a voice say, "If you build it, he will come." Instead of heading off for the nearest CT machine to have his brain tumor diagnosed, he plows under his corn and builds a baseball field.
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After all this time, I can admit the film has its moments, but in the final analysis it - somewhat unlike the book on which it is based - has a vile, pernicious lie at its heart that throws the whole movie off kilter and destroys what is intended to be a sentimental fantasy.Ī quick recap of the film's premise: Kevin Costner plays Ray Kinsella, a not terribly successful Iowa farmer with unresolved issues relating to his dead father. I had let the date slip from my mind, but to be fair, the film and I had fallen out of love long ago and I hadn't remembered to send flowers in years. As such, I hope you will forgive me for commenting on the 25 th anniversary of the semi-classic baseball film "Field of Dreams" on April 23, two days after the fact.
My parents being chronically preoccupied people, there is a habit in my family of remembering birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries well after the fact, such that at some point this month my mother will be calling to say, "We should really get together to celebrate your birthday." I was born in December.
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