![]() Therefore, when Shoeless Joe walks out of the cornfield and into the outfield (in the form of a commanding Ray Liotta) Kinsella thinks he knows the “he” the field was built for. If anything, it seems likely that Jackson played the fixers while playing his ass off on the field. While he did take the money, he was easily the best player of the series. It never made sense in Jackson’s case, though. First, it appears to be Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray’s father’s hero and an expelled (wrongly, by many accounts) member of the 1919 Chicago White Sox-eight of whom were forced from the game due to taking money to throw the World Series that year against the Cincinnati Reds. ![]() So begins Ray’s quest to figure out what the voice means, and who the “he” is that will come. But the reason why we go along with this madness is because Costner and Madigan seem to so strongly believe in what’s happening that we do too-without asking questions of logic or shaking our heads thinking, “who would do this?” The answer is almost no one would… except for these two. He then decides to build that field and his wife Annie (the ever-feisty Amy Madigan) goes along with his madcap idea without putting up a fight, even though it could lead to their financial ruin by depleting their crop output. Can you even imagine the pitch meeting with the studio? An overmatched farmer named Ray Kinsella walks through his cornfield and hears a voice saying “If you build it, he will come.” Then he sees a vision of a major league sized baseball field covering over a sizable portion of his corn crop. And so, as the credits rolled, we both caught a glimpse of each other covering our faces so that the other wouldn’t see the streams running from our eyes.įield of Dreams has to be one of the strangest films of the last thirty-plus years. ![]() As you can imagine, we were easy marks for a film that ends with a father and son reunion. One of us has never met our biological father, and the other probably sometimes wishes he hadn’t. Now, you have to understand, Barry and I both have biological father issues. We were (and remain) baseball evangelists, and since we both loved Costner in Bull Durham the year before (think of that-an actor making two baseball movies in a row), it felt like easy money when we turned over some of our hard-earned to sit in the Ready’s uncomfortable seats with sticky armrests to take in Costner’s latest movie about America’s pastime. In the late spring of 1989, my best friend Barry and I walked into Ready Theater in the small town of Niles, Michigan to see a movie called Field of Dreams.
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