Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams is an American movie from the year 1989. The main actor is Kevin Costner. The film was in 1990 for three Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Music, Best Adapted Screenplay) nominated.

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Ray Kinsella 's corn farmer and lives with his wife Annie and their young daughter Karin in Iowa. His life is in orderly lines, until one day, while working in his field, a quiet, mystical voice is heard: ". If you build it, he will come back "

Ray is confused at first, but then he begins to realize the dream that he himself does not understand. He plows the corn just before harvest under and builds a baseball field with grandstand and floodlights. Thus he creates a magical place where dreams become reality. Long-dead baseball stars come out of the rest of the corn field and train on Rays game. All players were 68 years previously involved in a bribery scandal, the Black Sox scandal, and give them the playing license was subsequently revoked, among them the legendary " Shoeless Joe" Jackson. However, see this player initially only Ray and his family.

The mysterious voice announces itself again and calls Ray: During a school assembly, Ray comes out that it can only be the writer and baseball fan Terence Mann - in the original book is JD Salinger, who also " Alleviate his pain. " had stopped in the sixties since his great literary success to write and live in seclusion since then. Ray travels to Boston, where it meets the reclusive Terence Mann. He persuaded him to attend a baseball game together. In the " Fenway Park " he and Terence Mann see after the third note of the mysterious voice ( "Go to your destination " ) the word " Archibald, Moonlight ' Graham " on the scoreboard. Terence decides to follow Ray to see the mysterious field of play and to "Moonlight Graham " to find.

While Ray and Terence are traveling across the States, Rays Farm is close to financial ruin. In a small town arrived, Ray and Terence ask Doc " Moonlight" Graham through. They quickly realize that the doc is already dead. Disappointed, they sit in a motel room. While Terence phoned his father, Ray left the hotel and meets the main road on Doc Graham. This begs him to his office and told him about it, that he was about to become a famous baseball player. Ray tries to persuade him to come to Iowa, but the doc refuses.

The next day, Ray and Terence go to back to Iowa. On the road they encounter a young hitchhiker. It turns out that this is very young Archie "Moonlight" Graham. The two take him to Iowa, where he is otherwise included in the team.

The next day, it comes down to the grandstand to a confrontation between Ray and Annie's brother Marc, who has bought the mortgage on the farm. Terence Mann observed in this period, the players on the field, as Karin, who sits on the top step of the rostrum and a hot dog eating. Suddenly advises Terence Ray, the farm and the field is not for sale. " Ray, people will come. They will not know why, but they will come and pay an entrance fee, because they will find the peace that they miss ... ". Marc, however, can not see the players and keeps the others present increasingly crazy.

After a brief scuffle between Ray and Marc Karin crashes accidentally from the stands and is aware and motionless and without breathing on the ground. Archie Graham is facing the difficult decision to stay or to help the child baseball player. He takes the side line and the "old" Doc Graham appears. He frees Karin by swallowing a hot dog bits and saves her life. But now he can not go back. The players finish the game and take Doc Graham with in the field. " Shoeless Joe" invites Terence Mann to accompany him. After a brief exchange of words with Ray, who can not understand why Terence and he is not invited, Terence disappears and laughing like a little boy rejoicing in the corn field.

" Shoeless Joe Jackson " now says to Ray, "If you build it, he will come" and suddenly sees Ray a baseball player who has just moves itself. Ray recognizes him as John Kinsella - his father, with whom he had a very bad relationship. But as young as he appears here on the field, Ray did not know him. John congratulates Ray to the great game and thanks to him that he can play there. They play together a game of baseball.

While the two play, the camera moves back and pulls the angle of view across the field with the players facing the street - there you can see a seemingly endless motorcade slowly moving in the direction of the field.

Background

The film is based on the novel " Shoeless Joe " by WP Kinsella. The working title of the film had the same title, but was later changed to the previous working title of the novel " Field of Dreams". The novelist Kinsella was also the namesake of the family name of the main character.

In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother is often alluded to this film. In the series Married with Children, there is a sequence that parodies this film.

Reviews

  • Heyne Film Year Book 1990: An excellent, quote rich comedy with a social touch.
  • Filmdienst 18/1989: Convincing played, staged, Hollywood-style contemporary cinema of emotions and desires. The playing field is a metaphor for the encounter with their own dreams and the past that is alive and can be changed again. Fabulous entertainment with depth.

Awards

  • Three nominations at the Academy Awards in 1990 for Best Film, the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Score
  • A nomination at the Hochi Film Awards 1990 as Best Foreign Language Film
  • A nomination at the Grammy Awards in 1990 for Best Film Music by James Horner
1989 in film Phil Alden Robinson Lawrence Gordon (producer) Charles Gordon (producer) John Lindley (cinematographer) Literary adaptation Married... with Children 62nd Academy Awards Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Academy Award for Best Original Score 32nd Annual Grammy Awards
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