What I’m trying to say is, if “Field of Dreams” really is a special sports movie, a representation of baseball’s spiritual place in our hearts, why can’t the movie be left on its own rather than repurposed as a Disneyfied marketing vehicle? (In my remake of the movie, which Hollywood continues to reject, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson arrive at Ray’s farm with a team of Negro Leaguers, they kick Ray’s team’s butt and win the deed to the cornfield.) If this movie is about heavenly reward for men who were deprived of their big-league dreams, why didn’t the script writer throw a bone to Black players? ![]() What would I have to smoke to enable me to make sense of the movie’s plot? Didn’t they drop in the Moonlight Graham character just because he had a fun nickname? Who says, “Let’s have a catch”? In my neck of the woods, it was, “Let’s play catch.”ĭid farmer Ray (Costner) really get his wife’s blessing to plow under half their cash crop so he could build a baseball field in order to lure the ghost of some guy named Shoeless Joe? Why does the wife not say, “Ray, I suspect you’ve been growing something besides corn out there in your field”? Wouldn’t it be weird to suddenly be the same age as your dad? Doesn’t that make it awkward for him with mom? Why are Costner’s Iowa-farmer blue jeans so tight? Did he misread the sizing chart in the Sears catalog? When I rewatched “Field of Dreams” a couple of years ago, I had some questions that didn’t occur to me three decades earlier, like: But it has the courage to be about exactly what it promises.” ![]() “It is a delicate movie, a fragile construction of one goofy fantasy after another. “‘Field of Dreams’ will not appeal to grinches and grouches and realists,” film critic Roger Ebert wrote back then. When “Field of Dreams” debuted in 1989, I was one of those guys dabbing away a tear at the end, as Costner and his dad “had a catch.”īack then, apparently, I was not yet a grinch, grouch or realist. If I’m paying up to $9,000 for a ticket to this game, I’m already sufficiently invested in the mystical nature of the event, I don’t need Kevin Costner’s voice reminding me what I should be dreaming about as I wander the maze.ĭo I sound cynical? Sorry, baseball gods. The path through the maze is cut to form a giant MLB logo, and fans wandering midst the stalks heard bits of dialogue from the movie soundtrack blaring from loudspeakers in the corn, providing a mystical ambiance similar to that of waiting in line for a ride at Disneyland. ![]() Get it? No doubt these were hawked by vendors dressed as Mom.Īlso, there is an actual cornfield maze between the original field built for the movie and the field built for this game. That is tricky, because the game is a cheesy marketing gimmick.įor instance, MLB got hipster chef Guy Fieri to invent a ballpark snack: a hot dog wrapped in an apple-pie crust.
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