tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post3467154555298890787..comments2024-03-04T03:28:33.591-05:00Comments on Tips from Chip: Movie – Field of Dreams (1989)Chip Laryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-89611983490807353262012-11-10T23:48:07.110-05:002012-11-10T23:48:07.110-05:00The book came out about 10 years before the movie....The book came out about 10 years before the movie. Both book and movie take place in the "present". In the movie Costner's character tells us how he was born in the 50s, went to college but "mostly majored in the 60s" (plus when he meets Terrence Mann, Mann says, "oh God, you're from the 60s, aren't you?"), then says how he got married and had a kid a few years later (hence the 70s). The movie came out in 1989. Costner himself was only 34 (born in 1955) and too young to have been a 60s hippy in college.<br /><br />It's sort of like how they kept part of the timeline from the original broadway musical in the Mamma Mia movie (the ages of Steep, her friends, and her old lovers all put them in the 1970s back when she was dating them - consistent with the original musical), but still tried to set the movie in the present, making Streep a 39 year old mother, whose own mother kicked her out of the house for the shame of being an unwed mother - in 1990 (based on her daughter being 18 in 2008 when the movie was set).<br /><br />Yeah, I'm anal about timelines making sense in movies. I immediately picked up on the fact that Hanks was way too old to match up with the man we saw reminiscing at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan. Same thing with The Green Mile. Both of those movies had explanations for the discrepancies, though.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-84620270402724999302012-11-10T22:34:17.433-05:002012-11-10T22:34:17.433-05:00Wait a minute, now I'm confused. In the book, ...Wait a minute, now I'm confused. In the book, what year do the events take place? Also, when did the book come out? Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212743923364795680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-68966656084573181572012-11-10T18:27:12.335-05:002012-11-10T18:27:12.335-05:00Gotcha. Thanks for explaining. In regards to my ...Gotcha. Thanks for explaining. In regards to my comment about the years not being consistent I was referring to the relative ages of Costner, whose character was born in the 50s, but was supposed to be a college hippy from the 60s, who had a child in the 70s, who was only a little girl in 1989. I think they bumped the birth year up to match Costner's age, instead of setting the film in the late 70s.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-13658521526198155352012-11-10T02:03:06.790-05:002012-11-10T02:03:06.790-05:00When Ray meets Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster) i...When Ray meets Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster) it's supposed to be the year 1972. Ray looks at the marquee of a movie theater and it says "The Godfather", which came out in 1972, so the filmmakers got their facts right. If the marquee said "Jaws" it would be a gross error. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212743923364795680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-49324351947195203812012-11-09T14:46:38.555-05:002012-11-09T14:46:38.555-05:00"while I don't give a flying rip about ba..."while I don't give a flying rip about baseball, the speech delivered by James Earl Jones about the importance of the game is still one of my favorite movie speeches."<br /><br />Thank you for including this comment. I've always wondered about this. I love the speech, but then I love baseball. I always wondered if that speech meant nothing to people who didn't care about the game.<br /><br />I agree on it not really mattering how Jackson hit. I forget what movie it was (maybe the Babe Ruth one with John Goodman?) but the actor couldn't hit well enough left handed to be believable (Ruth was a lefty) so they just had him hit right handed, run down to third base, and they reversed the shot. According to IMDB's trivia, Ray Liotta, who played Jackson, spent months learning how to hit and throw the correct way and the director told him it didn't matter if it was correct or not because "he was a ghost". Not sure if it's true or not.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-90910112304075913112012-11-09T14:40:27.660-05:002012-11-09T14:40:27.660-05:00"I thought the book ban scene - which was jus..."I thought the book ban scene - which was just one scene in the film - was one of the strong points in the film because it establishes the couple's interest in literature and builds up to Terrence Mann."<br /><br />Agreed. I didn't have a problem with the scene; I just felt the woman who was trying to ban the book was played so broadly that she ended up being two dimensional.<br /><br />"They did get the year '1972' and 'The Godfather' connected right, though."<br /><br />I'm afraid you lost me on this reference. Can you elaborate?Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-74291702056440050652012-11-09T14:38:13.390-05:002012-11-09T14:38:13.390-05:00That's great that you got to visit the actual ...That's great that you got to visit the actual field. Thanks for sharing the story (if not the photo.)Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-88393801515406800182012-11-09T02:23:07.530-05:002012-11-09T02:23:07.530-05:00I love this film unabashedly, and the final line s...I love this film unabashedly, and the final line spoken by Costner never fails to produce the desired lump in the throat. And while I don't give a flying rip about baseball, the speech delivered by James Earl Jones about the importance of the game is still one of my favorite movie speeches. <br /><br />As for the lack of realism...well, it's called "magical realism" for a reason, and this film is one of those that hits its notes perfectly, or perfectly enough that I don't care about which side of the plate Jackson stands on.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-55071523148046101982012-11-08T20:53:36.486-05:002012-11-08T20:53:36.486-05:00I loved this movie, too. I think people need to ac...I loved this movie, too. I think people need to accept it as a fantasy and not look for realism. <br /><br />Not that into baseball to know about those facts about Shoeless Joe. They did get the year "1972" and "The Godfather" connected right, though. <br /><br />Also I thought the book ban scene - which was just one scene in the film - was one of the strong points in the film because it establishes the couple's interest in literature and builds up to Terrence Mann. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212743923364795680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564277570960354470.post-54971197740956195862012-11-08T17:04:15.497-05:002012-11-08T17:04:15.497-05:00Yeah, I cry at this one too, but I'm a baby so...Yeah, I cry at this one too, but I'm a baby so I cry at movies a lot. Field of Dreams is full of heart without being schmaltzy. Field of Dreams works for me. <br /><br />In the early nineties, my family took a cross country road trip and one of our stops was the Field of Dreams farm in Iowa. So yes, there exists a photo of me walking into the cornfields at the edge of the baseball diamond. It's pretty cool.siochembiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11487373396181856763noreply@blogger.com