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"They.look like theu would in 1989." They played in the 1919 world series. They would be 90-100+ years old in 1989. John Cusack starred in Eight Men Out about those players.
Burt Lancaster is so effortlessly perfect here. He never took acting lessons; he just started out in film noirs after an injury as a circus acrobat and just picked it up from there. He was actually fortunate enough to have his first film be a starring role in a well-venerated film noir (The Killers from 1946) which immediately established him as a star performer in that genre before From Here to Eternity (1950) made him a household name.
I love the fact that his wife is not the stereotypical opponent who disbelieve and discourages his insane dream. She acknowledges its crazy but still supports him 100%. No manufactured drama.
@@alaninsoflo Well that's not true. What about the mustache twirling brother in law who is literally only there to give a face to the money problems and higher stakes to the choices made? Annie is great and she's pretty well fleshed out I think.
Actually, the MLB field is right next to the movie field. What I love us that this movie literally came true. People came just to play catch. "For it's money they have, but peace they lack".
My favorite scene in the movie - the one that gets to me the most is when Shoeless says to Moonlight, "...you were good." I believe its the affirmation that Doc was looking for that he could have made it in baseball had things gone differently.
The movie came out in 1989. I had been a father for 6 years and we were about to have our third kid. I was 32, so maybe 2 or 3 years younger than Ray Kinsella. My dad died of brain cancer when he was 41 in 1973 when I was 15. He was a very different person the last year or year and a half of his life - we were already losing him just as I was turning 14. My dad had spent a lot of time building his radio career, especially after we moved from Pontiac to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was away a lot and I think it was really hard on my mom. A couple of my favorite memories with him were convincing him to play catch after the end of a Tigers game on TV (we lived in Pontiac, Michigan). It was not easy to convince him. So playing catch with my dad was really symbolic for me after he was gone. I never felt like I got enough - catch, or guidance, or just time. BUT, he did manage to get a couple of radio comp tickets to the 4th game of the 1968 World Series the Tigers played at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, an old ballpark from way back in the Black Sox era of baseball. That day was magical, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The scene at the end of the movie with Ray and his dad playing catch just destroyed me. Face completely wet with tears when the lights came up at the theater - everyone could see me. And Ray's giddiness on the road trip was a huge pleasure, especially when he convinced Terence to go to Minnesota (I've lived in Minneapolis since 1969) - buddies for life.
I'm here as another for whom this film had so much meaning. I was just a wide eyed kid in 1967 when my dad took me to the All Star Game. After the game we even got to meet Hank Aaron in the parking lot. 22 years later in 1989 I was the working adult newly engaged and my dad was retired when I took him to the All Star Game. It was my turn to do something for my dad and my second chance at an All Star game. This movie is all about second chances and it meant so much to me, especially coming out in 1989. My dad is long gone now of course but I still think of him from time to time. I hope he's playing catch somewhere.
I am crying all over again after reading your story. Mine is different. I'm a girl and my dad is 83 years old now, I didn't lose him in my childhood, or even when I was young. But he was never emotionally available. He wasn't the guy that would play games with us, throw a ball around with us, shoot hoops, any of that. He's still not that guy. So this movie has always represented to me that little piece that I feel like I missed out on. I'm so sorry you lost your father so young. I have many friends who lost parents in their childhood and I've always been grateful that I at least got to know mine as an adult, and have adult conversations, and try to understand them as an adult rather than a child. I'm so glad you have the memories of having that catch and going to that World Series game. God bless.
@@moeball740 We receive in Life what We need to help Us grow and ascend before We move on to Our next Life.@ Forum Borealis channel Playlist Clif High Beyond the Gates of Death Transmigration,Reincarnation,and the Metemphychosis video I experienced a terrible relationship with my Father also. Never got to say goodbye nor see him due to the false ********* @ Rumble @ Janet Ossebaard channel@ Fall of the Cabal Series Parts #1-27 Kept telling Dad about Part #10 The Return of the King but He would not listen. Enjoy.
It's all about second chances to put things right... ...for the Eight... ...for Moonlight Graham... ...for Terence Mann... ...for Ray and his father. It's lightning in a bottle.
Lancaster's scenes are masterful. A man that new his tools and what they looked like behind the lens. Like a tiny little stage just for you. True craftsmanship fitting a legend.
Everybody has something in there life, that one regret that if they had just one chance to see it through… When Joe says, “No Ray, it was you.” It was Ray’s feelings of regret that was talking to him that inspired him to build the field the whole time. I believe the field did represent heaven as it is the place where dreams come true and they get to erase that regret. One thing I was wondering was Terrence Man’s dream was to play at Ebbett’s Field, but it was tore down and he never got to play there. What does he see when he goes into the corn, does he cross over and is young again and sees Ebbett’s Field? Does he come back as a younger Terrence and play on the field with the other players, then walks off the field and becomes the older him to write about it. I can see why they didn’t show us that because the writer did not want to take away from Ray and his father, the center of the story. Powerful performance by Burt Lancaster. That scene when Joe says “You were good” and he smiles makes you tear up every time. I also had this other thought. They say ghosts or spirits may be trapped here on earth if they have any unresolved issues in life and maybe god was giving them a chance to resolve their issues because they were fundamentally good people. Like maybe Doc Graham couldn’t move on to Felicia until now. So maybe this isn’t heaven, but a place that gives them the chance to move on to there. Like Joe telling Archie he was good gave him the validation to move on and finally see his wife.
One of the few movies that will make the biggest alpha male weep! I saw this in the theater when it came out and it was hilarious to see all of the men in that theater trying really hard not to cry. RIP Ray Liotta. He was a gem in this movie.
@@kevinramsey417 Please don’t misunderstand me. In no way am I mocking or saying mean things about men. I absolutely get the story and the themes of this movie. I should have been a little more clear. I went to the movie with my dad and he was a big burly macho kind of man. To see him tear up and sniffle watching this made my jaw drop straight to the floor. I looked around the theater and other men were doing that too. I wasn’t making fun. It was just surprising and very funny to me in that moment. I mean no disrespect.
Likewise, and more for me, I was sitting next to a friend who had lost her mother a few months earlier. We sat there for minutes as she cried. I think the movie speaks to everyone who wishes one more X with a departed loved one.
You're doing pretty good! I've seen it too many times and I think I cry, off an on, in anticipation. LOL I cry when Karin tells him daddy there's a man on your lawn. And to be totally honest sometimes I don't even make it that long and cry when he hears The Voice! And then again when he and his wife have the same dream. Again when the men tell the stories of the real Archie Graham. Anytime Archie Graham mentions Alicia! And then usually from about the moment that Ray and his brother-in-law begin to argue and Karin tells her daddy that the people will come, till the end of the movie. LOL And if I dry up anywhere along the way it's guaranteed I will be a blubbering mess when Ray asks his dad if he wants to have a catch. My husband wonders why I even want to watch it. LOL Although he did learn some time ago that sometimes us gals just need a movie to make us cry. It's healthy!
Love this movie and yes I cry everytime. Grown men have been known to cry at this one. One of the things I think most people miss is it wasn’t just to ease Ray’s fathers pain but to ease Ray’s pain. Ray Liotta’s quote “no Ray it was you” is usually ignored by most people. One of the things I love is the question of “is this heaven” is left up to each indidvidual’s interpretation. I believe this movie eases all of our pain.
I saw this movie in the theaters when it first came out. I remember so vividly standing in line waiting for the earlier show to get out. What struck me was how many men were wiping tears from their eyes as they were exiting. I thought I was going in to see if baseball movie. What I saw instead was one of the most beautiful stories I had ever seen.
We always needed more Amy Madigan in movies! I love her and I'm sorry she wasn't in more movies, but her stereotype was just different and didn't match a lot of movies of that era. She definitely represented that awesome child/young adult of the sixties though. One of the best lines in the movie is when she tells the lady that she had two fifties and went right into the 70s. LOL
So happy you were able to react to this one. The 'Have A Catch' scene still gives me chills. Caught it in theatre in 1989 and it remains my favorite Kevin Costner movie ⚾️👍
Yeah they say that shoeless joe died a couple decades earlier while you were complimenting Gabby Hoffmans limp sleeping action. Lol Also, “No, it’s Iowa” IS a very famous quote from this movie that I’ve heard throughout my life (I don’t live in Iowa, I’m Canadian) It’s been 70 years since they got kicked out of baseball, so no, they haven’t aged. It’s just some we’re young (shoeless joe) and some were older on the team.
My whole fam went out on a Thursday night to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at 7:30 but it was sold out so we bought tickets for the next showing and for Field of Dreams which had started 5 minutes before, having never even heard of it. We came in right as Costner first hears the voice. Literally no idea what was going on because we missed the whole little preamble with Shoeless Joe and Ray's histories. We all loved it, peed, got fresh cokes and popcorn and then I got to see my first Indiana Jones movie - in the freakin' theater! First double feature! Latest I had ever stayed out on a school night. Best movie night ever.
It's a crazy phenomenon, but ballplayers of the dead-ball era all DO look like they're middle aged, even when we know they were in their 20s and 30s. There are pictures of Hall of Fame shortstop Honus Wagner at age 29 that look like photos of a 60-year-old man. A lot of these guys came from hard childhoods, I guess. Also: every player depicted in the movie was indeed deceased by the time WP Kinsella wrote the book the film is based on.
I read somewhere (not pertaining to this) that the photographs themselves made people look older as well. I don’t remember the reasoning - the longer exposure time required?? They took a picture of the same person with a modern camera and an antique camera, and she did indeed look significantly older.
Thanks RUclips, for POINTLESSLY delaying Shanelle's upload! Oh well, being up on a sunday means a great start to my week with another awesome shanaction! 😃
The most fun I'd ever seen Burt Lancaster have with a role was in the 1983 film: Local Hero, as an oil mogul whose company sends a top negotiator to buy a small Scottish fishing town for a future refinery site. I've gotten such joy from this movie over the years. I think you'll really fall in love with it too.
With any great motion picture score, the key to the music's emotional success isn't just the notes the composer chooses, but the orchestrations (assigning which types of musical instruments on which notes at which moments). It sounds like French horns during the end credits. When the music swells in the scene where Ray and John have a catch, it sounds like string instruments. A classic movie score!
Yes, I've watched this movie many years ago, and yet I was weeping while watching the video. At work. And yes, it's a "Luke, I am your father" situation. It isn't just you.
One of the greatest sports movies of all time. It's absolutely beautiful and full of some terrific quotes. This movie oozes nostalgia. It isn't a perfect movie, but I still think it's wonderful and I wouldn't change a thing about it. And I'm so glad they edited in the "dad" part at the end because for me that makes it really hit hardest. This movie will make anyone cry.
I can anecdotally concur, it gets me every time for sure. I didn't know about the 'dad' add until this reaction, that word alone floods the ducts for me. o7
Burt Lancaster was my first Classic Hollywood crush, after I saw him just dripping charisma in The Crimson Pirate while dressed in skin-tight leggings when I saw it on tv in the late ‘70s. It was only later that I realized what an amazing actor he was. I love him in The Sweet Smell of Success and then much later in Local Hero.
He is absolutely chilling in The Sweet Smell of Success! I think one of his best performances is in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard. It's a great actor whose physical performance shines through even when their dialogue is dubbed in Italian.
"Moonlight" Graham: "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day."
"We're not in Kansas anymore." -Office Space, 1999. Disclaimer: While that is true, it did occur on the first date scene as our hero read Ms. Anistons' 'flare'...I reallize it is from the Wizard of Oz.
Good fun awesome baseball movie, thanks so much for reacting to this. As a baseball fan who’s father passed when I was little “hey dad do you want to have a catch” kills me every time. Great movie
Great reaction Shan. This is definitely one of the greatest feel good tear jerkers Hollywood ever produced. "Is this Heaven? No this is Iowa " was probably as famous as "If you build it .." when the movie came out. But pop culture has run with the latter one far more than the first. Not sure why. Again fantastic job kiddo. You're one of the best reactors out there. Another nostalgia movie made in the 80s that you might love is The Big Chill. Editing it might be difficult because of how much the soundtrack is woven into the story, but it will be worth it. You'll be dancing in your chair most of the time.
James Earl Jones is everyone's Mufasa lol you know you've got an iconic voice when they remake a movie, and recast every single voice roll.... except yours.
Hi again Shanelle. The field is still there. In fact they built another one right near the one in the movie and every year Major league Baseball plays an actual big league game on the 2nd field. The players enter the field via the corn too.
I will admit that every time I watch field of dreams I too get a bit teary eyed towards the end of the film and I have to make faces to stop myself from having tears run down my cheeks and seeing the last few minutes in your video almost done it to me again so your not alone when it comes to that shanelle. Glad you enjoyed field of dreams.
I was 18 when this movie came out and, for me, it was the very first movie I saw Ray Liotta in. When I heard about Ray Liotta's passing, this was the movie I watched that day in his memory. And the actor who plays Ray's father, Dwier Brown, was on an episode of my favorite TV series, Firefly. That scene at the end with Ray and his dad was my favorite part.
This is one of the many I caught on cable, several years later. So not when it came out. But I loved it that first time I watched it, and the 57 re-watches that followed. Still love it to this day. So glad you finally got to this one, and that you liked it as much as I did! 😊
That scene in Graham's office is ninja-level lethal. Ray is absolutely in the right when he talks about the tragedy of failing to accomplish your dreams and Graham just effortlessly and humorously tells him "If I'd only been a doctor for 5 minutes, that would've been a tragedy" and you see the wind just suck out of Ray's sails as he realizes that he's right. Just humbles a person to the core. The sheer, uncomplicated decency of the man is overwhelming at room tone.
The secret in the story is that 'The Voice' Ray hears in the cornfield, is actually his own. Its his conscience telling him what to do, what he NEEDS to do, in order to fulfill long suppressed dreams, and to have the courage to go through with it. Dreams, like having one final' chance to take back that 'awful' thing he said to his dad, and to be able to play catch with him one more time. By being selfless, thinking only of others, and facilitating their dreams, Ray finally gets, "Whats in it for, me?" "Ease his pain" is the wish that Ray's heart made for himself. He was rewarded. His home becomes heaven.
field of dreams is our generations it's a wonderful life. it's all about father's and sons, and is my favorite movie of all time. and yes, i break down and cry like a baby every single time i watch it. i actually cried just watching your reaction. my dad died the same year this classic film came out, and never got to see it.
I'm pretty sure the line most associated with Field of Dreams isn't even a quote from the movie, and it goes like this, "*sob* I don't even like baseball! Why am I crying? *sob*"
Kelly Preston played the love interest/female lead in both "Jerry Maguire" and "For Love of the Game", and died of breast cancer in July of 2020. BTW, if you're driving from Boston to Iowa, passing through a corner of Minnesota is no big deal.
For what it's worth, if you're driving from Boston to DYERSVILLE, Iowa, passing through a corner of Minnesota is not nothing; and passing through CHISOLM, Minnesota is a serious deal. It would be roughly equivalent to doing the return trip by way of Quebec City, Quebec.
Another great movie about the story of the "Black Sox Scandal" of 1919 is Eight Men Out." (1989) Its a pretty historical look at the story of the scandle that led to the eight players being thrown out of professional baseball for life
The leftfield wall at Fenway (the Big Green Monster) exists because Lansdowne Street cuts across where leftfield should be. Humphrey Bogart didn't say "Play it again Sam" either. The impressionists would say it on variety shows when imitating Bogart. For the record, "Catcher in the Rye" was supposed to be written for adults, and parents objected to it being taught to kids.
Speaking of impressionists - James Cagney in his acceptance speech for AFI Lifetime Achievement, lightly chastised the impressionist Frank Gorshin, saying, "Oh, Frankie, just in passing, I never said 'MMMMmmmm, you dirty rat!' What I actually did say was 'Judy, Judy, Judy!'"-a joking reference to a similar misquotation attributed to Cary Grant.
Phil Alden-Robinson who adapted the book and directed was offered the book by a female studio exec who said he should read it. When she told him it was about a farmer who heard voices and then built a baseball field Phil said no, not my type of story but took the book home to please her. He picked it up later that night and could not put it down and thought Ive got to make this a movie. So I guess its about holding on to and pursuing your dreams, believing your vision when no one else can see it. Wonderful film. When Liotta says 'You we're good' he meant it as much for Lancaster who wasn't so well and in his last role as a tribute to him. Now Ray's gone to Iowa too.
My wife and my first date was to see this in 1989 and in 1994 we actually got to have a catch on the field. I always feel I should stand up and hum Glory Hallelujah during Jamrs Earl Ujones "They will come Ray" speech.
I cry every time I see this movie. It just hits me right in the feels. Love the actors and the story and the nostalgia is great. Please also react to another JEJones movie with Robert DuVall, A Family Thing. It’s not to be missed!
Our cul-de-sac diamond had manhole cover as home. Storm drains as first and third, an old road patch as second, and fair was two trees on opposite sides of the culs opening.
Some of Field of Dreams was filmed in my hometown and it's fun to think about whenever I'm in the area of one of those locations, or visiting the area outside of town where it was also filmed. I was young when it was being filmed in my hometown but I remember stories of my aunt trying to sneak onset because she knew people from her theater group working behind the scenes on the movie, or how difficult it was for the scene at the end with all of the lights from the cars stretching out for such a long distance because a former High School teacher of mine was in charge of that.
Great Reaction...... Kevin Costner played in 5 movies related to Baseball......."Chasing Dreams," "Field of Dreams," "For Love of the Game," "The upside of Anger,"and (My Favorite of These) "Bull Durham".....
"If you build it, HE will come." And it came to pass that this movie site, surrounded by corn fields, does exactly what "Terence Mann" said it does to this day: give people a chance to connect, find Peace and play/watch a Baseball game. I selected this movie as a Father's Day movie and we saw "Field of Dreams" in the same ex-Cinerama theater that I'd seen "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "Star Wars" (1977), "Alien" (1979) and "Aliens" (1986).
I wonder how much the Iowa Tourism Board paid for the line... "IS this heaven? No, its Iowa" ... Such a classic tear jerker ... No matter how many times I've seen it, it still gets me.
I felt compelled to look up the origin of "the wave", thinking that it was not a long time before this. According to Wikipedia, it was first done in 1979 at the home arena of the Colorado Rockies (NHL).
In an alternate universe, K.C. uses his savings to build the field, defaults on the payments, and the bank sends Ray Liotta with a ball bat to collect.
Major League Baseball held a game in an Iowa baseball field like the movie hosted by Kevin Costner as a tribute you can look it up and watch it it's pretty magical, when Kevin Costner introduces the teams they came out of the corn like in the movie.
On Mother's Day, thinking of my own mother and father who are long gone ... That baseball diamond still exists and tourists still come ... and dreams do come true ;-)
This preposterous movie should never have worked, but it was done so well that it makes me tear up every time. The tremble in Costner's voice when he says, "Hey dad, you wanna have a catch?" always kills me.
7:30 Same. When I was a kid someone painted a baseball diamond on our street in the middle of the night. Someone complained to the police and a cop asked me if I knew anything about it. I honestly said that I didn't, but later that day mom had me take out the garbage and when I opened the trashcan I found empty paint cans and brushes and I knew who had done it. We had two cops living on our street. One was a CHP officer directly accross from us and next door was a city cop. It turned out it was my dad and the CHP officer who did the painting. And the people who complained to the police, they used it more than anyone else. The only rule was, no baseballs. He played with tennis balls and we never broke any windows.
That is amazing! 😆 I had a friend in college who swore that S. Morgenstern was a real writer and The Princess Bride was really abridged from his work. This was 2001, so no excuse!
@@TheJamieRamone in the 80s computers were very expensive and even though the internet existed, very few people in the general public had access. I got my 1st computer in 1998 and getting on the interweb was not easy... one had to use a phone line and a modem. Lots of people used AOL. It was incredibly slow and the connection was often interrupted.
@@mikelundquist4596 True, which is why I said "before IT TOOK OFF". 😉It really wasn't in the public's radar till the 2nd 1/2 of the '90s, what with Windows 95, and netscape, and all that...
I've been out to that farm, outside Dyersville, and sat in the bleachers, on the edge of the original field. Quite the place back then. For a donation - amount of your choosing,you could get a pill bottle size tube of dirt from the field. Good memories, great area, in a wonderful state.
Didn't play baseball though was given a baseball glove for a gift. Catfish Hunter glove. I don't remember playing catch with my dad but I'm sure we did. Have plenty of other fond memories. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years ago. It breaks me up and I hope to play catch before he goes. This absolutely broke me up. Great video as always.
Every year in the middle of summer, MLB HAS this game. Two teams, in a regular season game, IN THIS FIELD. People WILL come. People will most definitely come.
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"They.look like theu would in 1989." They played in the 1919 world series. They would be 90-100+ years old in 1989.
John Cusack starred in Eight Men Out about those players.
I cry ever time I watch this movie, it's great
EIGHT MEN OUT is a very good movie about Shoeless Joe
@@johncampbell756 good point lmaooo I just felt like they looked like 45 year olds, and baseball guys today look so young 😂
I grew up near Dyersville. My father and I are in one of the cars on the road for the last shot. The movie never fails to bring tears.
Burt Lancaster is so effortlessly perfect here. He never took acting lessons; he just started out in film noirs after an injury as a circus acrobat and just picked it up from there. He was actually fortunate enough to have his first film be a starring role in a well-venerated film noir (The Killers from 1946) which immediately established him as a star performer in that genre before From Here to Eternity (1950) made him a household name.
From Here To Eternity was 1953
He also played Wyatt Earp with Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday in the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
@@65g4 whoops how did i miss that?
Great in everything! Even Atlantic city
I love the fact that his wife is not the stereotypical opponent who disbelieve and discourages his insane dream. She acknowledges its crazy but still supports him 100%. No manufactured drama.
She was part of the 60s counterculture, so it makes sense that she would embrace the supernatural.
It's a movie/fictional. Do you really think a modern woman does that. Laughable
She is 1000% the weakest character in the movie. A 1960's caricature of the very worst kind.
@@alaninsoflo Well that's not true. What about the mustache twirling brother in law who is literally only there to give a face to the money problems and higher stakes to the choices made? Annie is great and she's pretty well fleshed out I think.
@@adampoveromo2134 I'm pretty sure no woman would support your dreams.
Just so you know almost every man cries when Ray says "Dad do you want to have a catch" I am right now while typing this! Great reaction
Major League Baseball has played real regular season games on this Iowa farm the last couple of years. First MLB games ever in Iowa. Very nostalgic.
Actually, the MLB field is right next to the movie field. What I love us that this movie literally came true. People came just to play catch. "For it's money they have, but peace they lack".
The best part of the movie for me is Burt Lancaster in his last role. I just love his voice. He was the Sam Elliott of the 50s & 60s.
My favorite scene in the movie - the one that gets to me the most is when Shoeless says to Moonlight, "...you were good." I believe its the affirmation that Doc was looking for that he could have made it in baseball had things gone differently.
It was his last big screen role…but not his last role or movie.
My favorite scene of all time
The man is just so damn charming.
Sam Elliot wishes, although tbf, Roadhouse kicks much ass.
"There's a man out there on your lawn." All these years later, and it still gives me goosebumps.
The music is perfect to set that tone
The movie came out in 1989. I had been a father for 6 years and we were about to have our third kid. I was 32, so maybe 2 or 3 years younger than Ray Kinsella.
My dad died of brain cancer when he was 41 in 1973 when I was 15. He was a very different person the last year or year and a half of his life - we were already losing him just as I was turning 14.
My dad had spent a lot of time building his radio career, especially after we moved from Pontiac to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was away a lot and I think it was really hard on my mom. A couple of my favorite memories with him were convincing him to play catch after the end of a Tigers game on TV (we lived in Pontiac, Michigan). It was not easy to convince him. So playing catch with my dad was really symbolic for me after he was gone. I never felt like I got enough - catch, or guidance, or just time. BUT, he did manage to get a couple of radio comp tickets to the 4th game of the 1968 World Series the Tigers played at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, an old ballpark from way back in the Black Sox era of baseball. That day was magical, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
The scene at the end of the movie with Ray and his dad playing catch just destroyed me. Face completely wet with tears when the lights came up at the theater - everyone could see me. And Ray's giddiness on the road trip was a huge pleasure, especially when he convinced Terence to go to Minnesota (I've lived in Minneapolis since 1969) - buddies for life.
I'm here as another for whom this film had so much meaning. I was just a wide eyed kid in 1967 when my dad took me to the All Star Game. After the game we even got to meet Hank Aaron in the parking lot. 22 years later in 1989 I was the working adult newly engaged and my dad was retired when I took him to the All Star Game. It was my turn to do something for my dad and my second chance at an All Star game. This movie is all about second chances and it meant so much to me, especially coming out in 1989. My dad is long gone now of course but I still think of him from time to time. I hope he's playing catch somewhere.
I am crying all over again after reading your story.
Mine is different. I'm a girl and my dad is 83 years old now, I didn't lose him in my childhood, or even when I was young. But he was never emotionally available. He wasn't the guy that would play games with us, throw a ball around with us, shoot hoops, any of that. He's still not that guy. So this movie has always represented to me that little piece that I feel like I missed out on.
I'm so sorry you lost your father so young. I have many friends who lost parents in their childhood and I've always been grateful that I at least got to know mine as an adult, and have adult conversations, and try to understand them as an adult rather than a child.
I'm so glad you have the memories of having that catch and going to that World Series game. God bless.
@@msdarby515 thank you. I'm sorry your dad hasn't been how you wanted or deserved.
@@moeball740 We receive in Life what We need to help Us grow and ascend before We move on to Our next Life.@ Forum Borealis channel Playlist Clif High Beyond the Gates of Death Transmigration,Reincarnation,and the Metemphychosis video I experienced a terrible relationship with my Father also. Never got to say goodbye nor see him due to the false ********* @ Rumble @ Janet Ossebaard channel@ Fall of the Cabal Series Parts #1-27 Kept telling Dad about Part #10 The Return of the King but He would not listen. Enjoy.
It's all about second chances to put things right...
...for the Eight...
...for Moonlight Graham...
...for Terence Mann...
...for Ray and his father.
It's lightning in a bottle.
And easing their pain.
Lancaster's scenes are masterful. A man that new his tools and what they looked like behind the lens. Like a tiny little stage just for you. True craftsmanship fitting a legend.
I cry every. Single. Time. I watch this movie. It's so heartwarming.
Everybody has something in there life, that one regret that if they had just one chance to see it through… When Joe says, “No Ray, it was you.” It was Ray’s feelings of regret that was talking to him that inspired him to build the field the whole time. I believe the field did represent heaven as it is the place where dreams come true and they get to erase that regret. One thing I was wondering was Terrence Man’s dream was to play at Ebbett’s Field, but it was tore down and he never got to play there. What does he see when he goes into the corn, does he cross over and is young again and sees Ebbett’s Field? Does he come back as a younger Terrence and play on the field with the other players, then walks off the field and becomes the older him to write about it. I can see why they didn’t show us that because the writer did not want to take away from Ray and his father, the center of the story. Powerful performance by Burt Lancaster. That scene when Joe says “You were good” and he smiles makes you tear up every time. I also had this other thought. They say ghosts or spirits may be trapped here on earth if they have any unresolved issues in life and maybe god was giving them a chance to resolve their issues because they were fundamentally good people. Like maybe Doc Graham couldn’t move on to Felicia until now. So maybe this isn’t heaven, but a place that gives them the chance to move on to there. Like Joe telling Archie he was good gave him the validation to move on and finally see his wife.
One of the few movies that will make the biggest alpha male weep! I saw this in the theater when it came out and it was hilarious to see all of the men in that theater trying really hard not to cry. RIP Ray Liotta. He was a gem in this movie.
You really have to be a dude with a dad to understand.
@@kevinramsey417 Please don’t misunderstand me. In no way am I mocking or saying mean things about men. I absolutely get the story and the themes of this movie. I should have been a little more clear. I went to the movie with my dad and he was a big burly macho kind of man. To see him tear up and sniffle watching this made my jaw drop straight to the floor. I looked around the theater and other men were doing that too. I wasn’t making fun. It was just surprising and very funny to me in that moment. I mean no disrespect.
There was a lot of dust in the theater that got in my eye when I was this the first time.
Likewise, and more for me, I was sitting next to a friend who had lost her mother a few months earlier. We sat there for minutes as she cried. I think the movie speaks to everyone who wishes one more X with a departed loved one.
@@glennlesliedance Well said.
“There’s no crying in baseball!” I'm crying from the point Archie becomes Dr Graham to save Karin till the credits.
You're doing pretty good! I've seen it too many times and I think I cry, off an on, in anticipation. LOL
I cry when Karin tells him daddy there's a man on your lawn. And to be totally honest sometimes I don't even make it that long and cry when he hears The Voice! And then again when he and his wife have the same dream. Again when the men tell the stories of the real Archie Graham. Anytime Archie Graham mentions Alicia! And then usually from about the moment that Ray and his brother-in-law begin to argue and Karin tells her daddy that the people will come, till the end of the movie. LOL
And if I dry up anywhere along the way it's guaranteed I will be a blubbering mess when Ray asks his dad if he wants to have a catch. My husband wonders why I even want to watch it. LOL Although he did learn some time ago that sometimes us gals just need a movie to make us cry. It's healthy!
Love this movie and yes I cry everytime. Grown men have been known to cry at this one. One of the things I think most people miss is it wasn’t just to ease Ray’s fathers pain but to ease Ray’s pain. Ray Liotta’s quote “no Ray it was you” is usually ignored by most people. One of the things I love is the question of “is this heaven” is left up to each indidvidual’s interpretation. I believe this movie eases all of our pain.
22:03 Not only a Tribute from his peers, but from the Audience as well. You were good, Burt Lancaster.
I saw this movie in the theaters when it first came out. I remember so vividly standing in line waiting for the earlier show to get out. What struck me was how many men were wiping tears from their eyes as they were exiting. I thought I was going in to see if baseball movie. What I saw instead was one of the most beautiful stories I had ever seen.
Love Amy Madigan in this. We need more women like her in 2023.
We always needed more Amy Madigan in movies! I love her and I'm sorry she wasn't in more movies, but her stereotype was just different and didn't match a lot of movies of that era. She definitely represented that awesome child/young adult of the sixties though. One of the best lines in the movie is when she tells the lady that she had two fifties and went right into the 70s. LOL
@@msdarby515 That whole scene is one my favorite of all time in movies. haha. Classic.
"I hate when that happens" I see it as a father & son reconciliation and yes happy tears loved this movie.
So happy you were able to react to this one. The 'Have A Catch' scene still gives me chills. Caught it in theatre in 1989 and it remains my favorite Kevin Costner movie ⚾️👍
...and Costner has had some classic baseball movies. I'd never argue with someone that lists this one as their favorite. 😁
Im so glad you did this movie, its one of my all time favorite films.
Yeah they say that shoeless joe died a couple decades earlier while you were complimenting Gabby Hoffmans limp sleeping action. Lol
Also, “No, it’s Iowa” IS a very famous quote from this movie that I’ve heard throughout my life (I don’t live in Iowa, I’m Canadian)
It’s been 70 years since they got kicked out of baseball, so no, they haven’t aged. It’s just some we’re young (shoeless joe) and some were older on the team.
Yeah I giggled when Shanelle said that. They would be at least 90 some maybe near 100. 🤔😉
Shannele the Joe Jackson played for the 1908 Chicago White Sox, he's definitely dead 😂😂 Great movie about them, called 8 Men Out 😊
My whole fam went out on a Thursday night to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at 7:30 but it was sold out so we bought tickets for the next showing and for Field of Dreams which had started 5 minutes before, having never even heard of it. We came in right as Costner first hears the voice. Literally no idea what was going on because we missed the whole little preamble with Shoeless Joe and Ray's histories. We all loved it, peed, got fresh cokes and popcorn and then I got to see my first Indiana Jones movie - in the freakin' theater! First double feature! Latest I had ever stayed out on a school night. Best movie night ever.
It's a crazy phenomenon, but ballplayers of the dead-ball era all DO look like they're middle aged, even when we know they were in their 20s and 30s. There are pictures of Hall of Fame shortstop Honus Wagner at age 29 that look like photos of a 60-year-old man. A lot of these guys came from hard childhoods, I guess. Also: every player depicted in the movie was indeed deceased by the time WP Kinsella wrote the book the film is based on.
I just Googled Honus Wagner and he looked like someone's Grandad! 😁 Holy moly! I thought you were exaggerating.
I read somewhere (not pertaining to this) that the photographs themselves made people look older as well. I don’t remember the reasoning - the longer exposure time required?? They took a picture of the same person with a modern camera and an antique camera, and she did indeed look significantly older.
Thanks RUclips, for POINTLESSLY delaying Shanelle's upload! Oh well, being up on a sunday means a great start to my week with another awesome shanaction! 😃
The most fun I'd ever seen Burt Lancaster have with a role was in the 1983 film: Local Hero, as an oil mogul whose company sends a top negotiator to buy a small Scottish fishing town for a future refinery site. I've gotten such joy from this movie over the years. I think you'll really fall in love with it too.
"People will come, Ray. People most definitely will come." That's my go-to phrase for trying a James Earl Jones impression.
You should watch Eight Men Out, which is based on the Blacksox incident involving the throwing of the world series.
With any great motion picture score, the key to the music's emotional success isn't just the notes the composer chooses, but the orchestrations (assigning which types of musical instruments on which notes at which moments). It sounds like French horns during the end credits. When the music swells in the scene where Ray and John have a catch, it sounds like string instruments. A classic movie score!
Yes, I've watched this movie many years ago, and yet I was weeping while watching the video.
At work.
And yes, it's a "Luke, I am your father" situation. It isn't just you.
One of the greatest sports movies of all time. It's absolutely beautiful and full of some terrific quotes. This movie oozes nostalgia. It isn't a perfect movie, but I still think it's wonderful and I wouldn't change a thing about it. And I'm so glad they edited in the "dad" part at the end because for me that makes it really hit hardest. This movie will make anyone cry.
I can anecdotally concur, it gets me every time for sure. I didn't know about the 'dad' add until this reaction, that word alone floods the ducts for me. o7
Burt Lancaster was my first Classic Hollywood crush, after I saw him just dripping charisma in The Crimson Pirate while dressed in skin-tight leggings when I saw it on tv in the late ‘70s. It was only later that I realized what an amazing actor he was. I love him in The Sweet Smell of Success and then much later in Local Hero.
He is absolutely chilling in The Sweet Smell of Success! I think one of his best performances is in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard. It's a great actor whose physical performance shines through even when their dialogue is dubbed in Italian.
"Moonlight" Graham: "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day."
"We're not in Kansas anymore." -Office Space, 1999.
Disclaimer:
While that is true, it did occur on the first date scene as our hero read Ms. Anistons' 'flare'...I reallize it is from the Wizard of Oz.
the filmmaker perspective here is why i watch these. pure gold. took me a bit to notice that energy. good energy. passes the vibe check.
As a father who’s son is now grown, playing catch with him as a kid is one of the memories I will cherish.
Good fun awesome baseball movie, thanks so much for reacting to this. As a baseball fan who’s father passed when I was little “hey dad do you want to have a catch” kills me every time. Great movie
Great reaction Shan. This is definitely one of the greatest feel good tear jerkers Hollywood ever produced. "Is this Heaven? No this is Iowa " was probably as famous as "If you build it .." when the movie came out. But pop culture has run with the latter one far more than the first. Not sure why.
Again fantastic job kiddo. You're one of the best reactors out there. Another nostalgia movie made in the 80s that you might love is The Big Chill. Editing it might be difficult because of how much the soundtrack is woven into the story, but it will be worth it. You'll be dancing in your chair most of the time.
"If you build it THEY will come" is one of the most common "Mandela Effect" mistakes that people make.
James Earl Jones is everyone's Mufasa lol you know you've got an iconic voice when they remake a movie, and recast every single voice roll.... except yours.
Hi again Shanelle. The field is still there. In fact they built another one right near the one in the movie and every year Major league Baseball plays an actual big league game on the 2nd field. The players enter the field via the corn too.
I will admit that every time I watch field of dreams I too get a bit teary eyed towards the end of the film and I have to make faces to stop myself from having tears run down my cheeks and seeing the last few minutes in your video almost done it to me again so your not alone when it comes to that shanelle. Glad you enjoyed field of dreams.
Highly recommend everyone comes to visit the field of dreams. The field is still there and it's beautiful.
I was 18 when this movie came out and, for me, it was the very first movie I saw Ray Liotta in. When I heard about Ray Liotta's passing, this was the movie I watched that day in his memory. And the actor who plays Ray's father, Dwier Brown, was on an episode of my favorite TV series, Firefly. That scene at the end with Ray and his dad was my favorite part.
23:35 This film does a *perfect* job of reminding you of the father and also making it a surprise when he actually shows up.
This is one of the many I caught on cable, several years later. So not when it came out. But I loved it that first time I watched it, and the 57 re-watches that followed. Still love it to this day. So glad you finally got to this one, and that you liked it as much as I did! 😊
I just keep rewatching the last 5 minutes of your reaction as it all plays out - so wholesome 🥹
That scene in Graham's office is ninja-level lethal. Ray is absolutely in the right when he talks about the tragedy of failing to accomplish your dreams and Graham just effortlessly and humorously tells him "If I'd only been a doctor for 5 minutes, that would've been a tragedy" and you see the wind just suck out of Ray's sails as he realizes that he's right. Just humbles a person to the core. The sheer, uncomplicated decency of the man is overwhelming at room tone.
The secret in the story is that
'The Voice' Ray hears in the cornfield, is actually his own.
Its his conscience telling him what to do, what he NEEDS to do, in order to fulfill long suppressed dreams, and to have the courage to go through with it.
Dreams, like having one final' chance to take back that 'awful' thing he said to his dad, and to be able to play catch with him
one more time.
By being selfless, thinking only of others, and facilitating their dreams, Ray finally gets,
"Whats in it for, me?"
"Ease his pain" is the wish that Ray's heart made for himself.
He was rewarded.
His home becomes heaven.
field of dreams is our generations it's a wonderful life. it's all about father's and sons, and is my favorite movie of all time. and yes, i break down and cry like a baby every single time i watch it. i actually cried just watching your reaction. my dad died the same year this classic film came out, and never got to see it.
The raised hands supporting Annie are a mirror of Ray among the cornstalks.
Every freaking time when he asks his dad for a catch I still lose it. My favorite moving
Never can make it through that scene at the end without some dust getting in my eye.
24:21 - Have I told you already how much I love your reactions? 🥰
I'm pretty sure the line most associated with Field of Dreams isn't even a quote from the movie, and it goes like this, "*sob* I don't even like baseball! Why am I crying? *sob*"
Thanks for reacting to this, one of my top 10 favorites.
Kelly Preston played the love interest/female lead in both "Jerry Maguire" and "For Love of the Game", and died of breast cancer in July of 2020.
BTW, if you're driving from Boston to Iowa, passing through a corner of Minnesota is no big deal.
For what it's worth, if you're driving from Boston to DYERSVILLE, Iowa, passing through a corner of Minnesota is not nothing; and passing through CHISOLM, Minnesota is a serious deal. It would be roughly equivalent to doing the return trip by way of Quebec City, Quebec.
Hooray! We got weepy, blubbery Shan for the first time in a little bit.
(does the wave)
The Kinsella books ALWAYS have that father theme. I can't explain it, but there it is.
Burt Lancaster, nothing physically that man couldn't do. Old school Hollywood royalty!
Top 5 for me. Makes me cry every single time. The speech by James Earl Jones is one of the best ever.
Another great movie about the story of the "Black Sox Scandal" of 1919 is Eight Men Out." (1989)
Its a pretty historical look at the story of the scandle that led to the eight players being thrown out of professional baseball for life
The leftfield wall at Fenway (the Big Green Monster) exists because Lansdowne Street cuts across where leftfield should be.
Humphrey Bogart didn't say "Play it again Sam" either. The impressionists would say it on variety shows when imitating Bogart.
For the record, "Catcher in the Rye" was supposed to be written for adults, and parents objected to it being taught to kids.
Speaking of impressionists - James Cagney in his acceptance speech for AFI Lifetime Achievement, lightly chastised the impressionist Frank Gorshin, saying, "Oh, Frankie, just in passing, I never said 'MMMMmmmm, you dirty rat!' What I actually did say was 'Judy, Judy, Judy!'"-a joking reference to a similar misquotation attributed to Cary Grant.
Phil Alden-Robinson who adapted the book and directed was offered the book by a female studio exec who said he should read it. When she told him it was about a farmer who heard voices and then built a baseball field Phil said no, not my type of story but took the book home to please her. He picked it up later that night and could not put it down and thought Ive got to make this a movie. So I guess its about holding on to and pursuing your dreams, believing your vision when no one else can see it. Wonderful film. When Liotta says 'You we're good' he meant it as much for Lancaster who wasn't so well and in his last role as a tribute to him. Now Ray's gone to Iowa too.
James earl jones was the old baseball guy in the sand lot.
My wife and my first date was to see this in 1989 and in 1994 we actually got to have a catch on the field. I always feel I should stand up and hum Glory Hallelujah during Jamrs Earl Ujones "They will come Ray" speech.
I cry every time I see this movie. It just hits me right in the feels. Love the actors and the story and the nostalgia is great. Please also react to another JEJones movie with Robert DuVall, A Family Thing. It’s not to be missed!
Who's peeling onions in here?
I'm not crying! You're crying!
Our cul-de-sac diamond had manhole cover as home. Storm drains as first and third, an old road patch as second, and fair was two trees on opposite sides of the culs opening.
I lost my dad years ago to cancer. The end scene gets me everytime!
Some of Field of Dreams was filmed in my hometown and it's fun to think about whenever I'm in the area of one of those locations, or visiting the area outside of town where it was also filmed. I was young when it was being filmed in my hometown but I remember stories of my aunt trying to sneak onset because she knew people from her theater group working behind the scenes on the movie, or how difficult it was for the scene at the end with all of the lights from the cars stretching out for such a long distance because a former High School teacher of mine was in charge of that.
One of the best lines, in all the years of Hollywood...... *"Is this Heaven?......No, it's Iowa"*
I went on a baseball trip in 1990. One of the places I visited was the field of dreams. I got to play catch on the field and run the bases.
Count me among the legion of dudes who cry every time I hear the "hey dad, wanna have a catch?" line.
In Field of Dreams, heaven is a baseball diamond, but in Ashes to Ashes (which was made in Britain), Heaven is a pub...
Great Reaction......
Kevin Costner played in 5 movies related to Baseball......."Chasing Dreams," "Field of Dreams," "For Love of the Game," "The upside of Anger,"and (My Favorite of These) "Bull Durham".....
2019 baseball playoffs were held on that field and people still visit for games to this day.
"If you build it, HE will come." And it came to pass that this movie site, surrounded by corn fields, does exactly what "Terence Mann" said it does to this day: give people a chance to connect, find Peace and play/watch a Baseball game. I selected this movie as a Father's Day movie and we saw "Field of Dreams" in the same ex-Cinerama theater that I'd seen "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "Star Wars" (1977), "Alien" (1979) and "Aliens" (1986).
I wonder how much the Iowa Tourism Board paid for the line... "IS this heaven? No, its Iowa" ... Such a classic tear jerker ... No matter how many times I've seen it, it still gets me.
I felt compelled to look up the origin of "the wave", thinking that it was not a long time before this. According to Wikipedia, it was first done in 1979 at the home arena of the Colorado Rockies (NHL).
Baseball fields are beautiful.
4:27 - it's the rural equivalent of: "I'm asking for a friend." 😁
In an alternate universe, K.C. uses his savings to build the field, defaults on the payments, and the bank sends Ray Liotta with a ball bat to collect.
I was so amazed leaving the Théâtre how many stayed behind for the credits because they were crying so much. It was so touching.
Major League Baseball held a game in an Iowa baseball field like the movie hosted by Kevin Costner as a tribute you can look it up and watch it it's pretty magical, when Kevin Costner introduces the teams they came out of the corn like in the movie.
On Mother's Day, thinking of my own mother and father who are long gone ... That baseball diamond still exists and tourists still come ... and dreams do come true ;-)
Playing catch, or even watching a game, with my dad? Yeah, you got me.
This preposterous movie should never have worked, but it was done so well that it makes me tear up every time.
The tremble in Costner's voice when he says, "Hey dad, you wanna have a catch?" always kills me.
7:30 Same. When I was a kid someone painted a baseball diamond on our street in the middle of the night.
Someone complained to the police and a cop asked me if I knew anything about it. I honestly said that I didn't, but later that day mom had me take out the garbage and when I opened the trashcan I found empty paint cans and brushes and I knew who had done it.
We had two cops living on our street. One was a CHP officer directly accross from us and next door was a city cop. It turned out it was my dad and the CHP officer who did the painting. And the people who complained to the police, they used it more than anyone else.
The only rule was, no baseballs. He played with tennis balls and we never broke any windows.
In 1989, before the internet, my friends and I went to libraries and bookstores looking for Terrance Mann books. We were so dumb.😂😂😂
That is amazing! 😆 I had a friend in college who swore that S. Morgenstern was a real writer and The Princess Bride was really abridged from his work. This was 2001, so no excuse!
I think you mean before it took off, 'cause the internet was set up in 1984. 😉
@@TheJamieRamone in the 80s computers were very expensive and even though the internet existed, very few people in the general public had access. I got my 1st computer in 1998 and getting on the interweb was not easy... one had to use a phone line and a modem. Lots of people used AOL. It was incredibly slow and the connection was often interrupted.
@@mikelundquist4596 True, which is why I said "before IT TOOK OFF". 😉It really wasn't in the public's radar till the 2nd 1/2 of the '90s, what with Windows 95, and netscape, and all that...
@@TheJamieRamone Yes...thank you so much for correcting my egregious error.
Is this Heaven? No it’s Iowa!!! Another iconic interaction from the movie
I've been out to that farm, outside Dyersville, and sat in the bleachers, on the edge of the original field. Quite the place back then. For a donation - amount of your choosing,you could get a pill bottle size tube of dirt from the field. Good memories, great area, in a wonderful state.
Didn't play baseball though was given a baseball glove for a gift. Catfish Hunter glove. I don't remember playing catch with my dad but I'm sure we did. Have plenty of other fond memories. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years ago. It breaks me up and I hope to play catch before he goes. This absolutely broke me up. Great video as always.
🤔you say..."this movies trying to kill me" when his dad shows up. I'm like wait till he says "wanna have a catch" gets me EVERY time.
" I just got chills". Field of Dreams has that affect on all of us Shanelle...
A lot of guys didn't have great relationships with their dads, and that made a lot of people teary-eyed in the theater.
19:53 technically he didn’t get an at bat. A sacrifice fly is a plate appearance, but not an at bat.
You gave the other miss quoted line in this, it’s “YOUR gonna need a bigger boa”. Love your reactions.
Every year in the middle of summer, MLB HAS this game. Two teams, in a regular season game, IN THIS FIELD. People WILL come. People will most definitely come.