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Field of Dreams (1989) (Patreon)

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Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster, Timothy Busfield

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Weird Magic

1990 Oscars - 0 wins - 3 major nominations (winner) Best Picture - (Driving Miss Daisy) - other noms were Born on the Fourth of July | Dead Poets Society | My Left Foot Adapted Screenplay - (Driving Miss Daisy) Original Score - (The Little Mermaid)

Weird Magic

Moonlight Graham was a real person, and those were his real stats. The date he played and the date he passed away were altered slightly to fit the timeline of the movie/book, but the facts given in the movie from the "friends" and the obit were taken from the life of the real man.

Chris H.

Some other coolnesses about the movie, hopefully in filmed order: 1. The scene where Ray says "See if you can hit my curve": they were just filming coverage of Costner pitching and Liotta hitting, and Liotta really did smack the ball right up the middle and Costner went down trying to get out of the way, staying in character. And they loved it so much and got the whole thing on camera that they added the "See if you can hit my curve" part. 2. In WP Kinsella's original novel, "Shoeless Joe" (on which the film is based), it is indeed JD Salinger who is the Terence Mann character. When the book was published, Salinger's legal representation informed Kinsella, his publisher, and anyone optioning the book for film that any further use of the name or likeness of the reclusive author would be met with a lawsuit. Thus, "Terence Mann" in the movie. 3. The final effect was entirely practical. Director Phil Alden Robinson somehow convinced the folks living in and around Dyersville, Iowa to fill up their cars with gas, come up those roads with their headlights on, and basically just sit. The shot starts with a crane shot then changes to a helicopter shot (no drone shots in 1989!) I believe they also had to have a lot of the homes and businesses nearby keep their lights off and "black out" to get the shot done.

Sunkrish Bala

Gents, I knew you'd love this one. (You really did cry a lot though.) (I did too.)

Peggy G

React to Tin Cup. Please, please react to Tin Cup.

Cosmic Slice

The filming stories behind this movie have always fascinated me. They had 1500 cars with around 3000 residents take part in that last scene with the cars and the local town agreed to a blackout to film it. The director's instructions were broadcast over a local radio station. (Also, Jimmy Stewart passed on the role of Moonlight Graham before they cast Lancaster.)

Jeff

I'm so, so happy you chose to watch this! I first saw it in the theater when it came out, and I was too young to appreciate it. Now I watch it repeatedly, bawling my eyes out each time, and I've come to feel this is a perfect movie. I'm so pleased you both could appreciate everything that made this film so exceptional. This is truly an original story, as created by W.P. Kinsella in "Shoeless Joe." He wrote it under the title "The Kidnapping of J.D. Salinger", but the publisher changed the title. And Salinger really did use the author's last name in his writing. Here's an excerpt from an article by Kinsella: "Why Ray Kinsella? The choice of name for my protagonist had little to do with me personally, and everything to do with Salinger. While researching the novel, I found that Salinger had used two characters named Kinsella in his fiction: Richard Kinsella, an annoying classmate in 'The Catcher In the Rye,' and Ray Kinsella, in the short story 'A Young Girl in 1941 With No Waist at All,' originally published in Mademoiselle magazine. I decided to name my character Ray Kinsella so he could turn up on Salinger's doorstep and say, 'I'm one of your fictional creations come to life, here to take you to a baseball game.'" The book itself is a bit stranger than the movie and not as emotionally powerful, but it's still a good read. Here's the full behind-the-scenes article by Kinsella: abcnews.go.com/Sports/began-shoeless-joe/story?id=23411105

Youtalkingtome
>>135695344

Oh yeah no drones back in the day! I can't believe they got a town full of people to agree to that. I am so glad they did, this film obviously went down in history and it's an incredibly touching story. What an absolute classic.

Youtalkingtome
>>135702714

I'm glad they went with Lancaster. I love Jimmy Stewart but it would have felt weird with the footage of him earlier. Maybe they wouldn't have used it and it was just a nod. Either way, Lancaster brought an absolute warmth to this role. The fact that was practical blows my mind. Just an absolute feat of movie making.

Youtalkingtome
>>135710316

Thank you so much for sharing this. I've got a long list of books I'm chewing on right now but this is getting added. I don't see how somebody wouldn't ball their eyes out at this.

Jonathan

Don’t feel bad about crying in this. This was a favorite movie of mine as a kid and made a nerdy unathletic kid love baseball for about 5 years. Even now, having most of the script memorized I get misty when Burt Lancaster first shows up and lose it at the end of the movie. The late 80s to mid 90s I think is the true golden age of film where writers had freedom to do what they wanted and directors and cinematographers had the film history of techniques, the technology to expand horizons, but the tech limits that they still had to plan and improvise. I envy you that there are still a few from this era you haven’t seen. I have to put a plug in for the Robin Hood movie as well if just for the stellar cast alone.

Jim Miller

A love of baseball is what my dad and I shared when I was a kid. When he was a young man, he played in one of those town teams that Archie mentioned. That got interrupted by WW2, then he came back and had a family. We would stand out in the front yard and play catch for hours in the summer almost every night. He passed away 30 years ago. I am 60 now and the moment I hear, "Dad, you wanna have a catch?", the waterworks just break loose EVERY DAMN TIME. Great reaction guys. Thanks

Youtalkingtome
>>135774331

I watched the trailer for it and yeah, I'm game for it whenever. I don't feel bad about crying ever! Sometimes it's embarrassing sharing my emotions with you all! Great movie.

Youtalkingtome
>>135790919

Absolutely. Sounds like your dad was a great guy. We all have nostalgia when it comes to baseball. It really brings us all together.

Matt Ulrich

I have seen this movie probably 40 times and it is always effective at making me emotional. It needs to be said that much of the emotional heavy lifting in the final scenes is done by the brilliant score by James Horner. One of the best film scores of all time in my opinion. Loved the reaction!

Kat Oliver

You should watch Sneakers it was done by the same director of Field of Dreams

trenton gragg

There are re-release screenings this year for the 35th anniversary. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were extras in the scenes filmed at Fenway Park. Although you can’t see them, they took the job so they could go to a Red Sox game.

Youtalkingtome
>>136553619

That's awesome! Probably the two biggest Red Sox fans. I love that they got to go back and film The Town there.

Scott Pearson Eberly

I grew up in Iowa. In my early 20s I worked at ESPN during their inaugural season of having MLB and the show Baseball Tonight, I bought the Field of Dreams with my first VCR to help with feeling homesick. Today,you can visit the baseball field and the farmhouse + they built a baseball field with the cornfields as a backdrop for an actual Major League Baseball game played every summer. My favorite production note: before filming the scene where Burt Lancaster (Dr. ‘Moonlight’ Graham) saves Ray’s daughter he kept asking a red haired man to get him a chair, then water, then coffee before realizing that man was an actor, Timmothy Busfield who’d be in the scene with him shortly.

Scott Pearson Eberly

FYI… I saw Field of Dreams at Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles… the film was also released for its 30th anniversary (2019), part of the TCM Big Screen Classic series. It looked amazing! Definitely better than my first viewing on a ‘23 inch RCA. And yes, the Iowa board of tourism has used the ‘heaven’ quote from the film several times the past couple of decades.

Scott Pearson Eberly
>>147889235

You should. I lived in LA for 23 years. I lived fairly close to the theater for a couple of years; there was a period when I was going to the movies at Quentin’s theater 1-2 times a week. I think it’s cool they use his personal prints for many of the films they screen.