To stare him down, then just as he goes into his windup, wink. I'd have liked to have had that chance just once, to stare down a big-league pitcher. Well, you know, I-I never got to bat in the major leagues. I really didn't know till just now, but I think it's to ask you if you could do anything you wanted, if you could have a-a wish.Īnd that you're the kind of a man who could grant me that wish? What's so interesting about a half an inning that would make you come all the way from Iowa to talk to me about it 50 years after it happened? And now, Ray Kinsella, I want to ask you a question. ![]() Back then I thought, 'Well, there'll be other days.' I didn't realize that that was the only day. You know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. It was like coming this close to your dreams and then watch them brush past you like a stranger in a crowd. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll walk out to the bleachers sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. 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. A meditation on family, memory, and faith, the film balances humor and magic to strike just the right chord of thoughtful emotion, affecting audiences so deeply that the baseball field created for the production has now become a mecca of sorts for dreamers around the world. but what all of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt conclusion. Past and present intermingle in the person of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster), an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory for a dignified life as a small-town physician. The idealistic farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing on the ball field. Salinger and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded. ![]() His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. As just about everyone knows by now, Costner stars as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will come," and is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. It is the film that cemented Kevin Costner's status as an all-American screen star, but the story resonates far beyond Costner's handsome appeal. Kinsella himself found the film a delightful surprise, differing greatly from his novel but benefiting from its own creative variations. Kinsella's exquisite baseball novel Shoeless Joe. It functions effectively as a moving drama about the power of dreams, a fantasy ode to our national pastime, and a brilliant adaptation of W.P. A phenomenal hit when it was released in 1989, Field of Dreams has become a modern classic and a uniquely American slice of cinema.
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