Hobbs Proves His Worth At Batting Practice | The Natural (Wilford Brimley, Robert Redford)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- My dears, in this scene, we see Roy (Robert Redford) stand his ground when Coach Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley) tells him that he is being sent back to the minor league. With confidence and conviction, Roy pleads to remain where he is, and Coach Fisher begrudgingly agrees. The next morning, Roy, with a homemade bat in hand, quickly demonstrates that he is a batter of major league status and that keeping him around is a good idea.
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🎬The Natural (1984): On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey). After 16 years, Hobbs returns to pro baseball as a rookie for the last-place New York Knights. Despite early arguments with his manager, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), Hobbs becomes one of the best players in the league, and the Knights start winning. But this upsets the Judge (Robert Prosky), their owner, who wants Hobbs to lose games, not win.
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What’s your favourite sports movie all time?
Bull Durham.
It has to be Brian's Song.
Bang the Drum Slowly.
the Replacements
Vision Quest (85')
This film is pure magic from start to finish.
In the book, 19 year old Roy Hobbs is seduced by older woman Harriet Bird who then shoots him. In the movie the obviously 47 year old Robert Redford does the scene with the ten years younger Barbara Hershey to comedic effect because he is clearly a sexy, worldly, older man with a younger woman, standing the scene on its head.
@@ji8044 They didn't quite have the whole de-aging tech down back when they made this movie :)
Yeah pretty much
Liked it better than Field of Dreams
This is the worst baseball movie I’ve ever seen , full of anachronisms and bizarre , unexplainable occurrences to go along with shoddy acting and what I call athletic choreography . I mean the ron leflore biography was 100 thousand times better than this and that was with Mr. Reading Rainbow starring in a network tv production … and if you’re wondering who ron leflore is , you’re only strengthening my point …
The dramatic music when Hobbs hits the home run into the lights gets me everytime.
Yep, the Texas Rangers used that theme song after a ranger hit a home run. Gotta love it.
One of my all time favorite moments in movies. I miss this version of Hollywood.
we all do, kid. we all do.
This one?
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When you read the book you discover a different ending but the producers didn’t want people to complain so they decided to give it a happy ending. 🇺🇸
One of the greatest movies of all time, and so obscure now. Just magic from start to finish. So pleased to see it pop up randomly in my RUclips algorithm.
Sadly, baseball is obscure now. My Cubs just played the Angels. No Trout. No Ohtani. Even the Cubs beat that lousy team. Nobody knows those other Angel players except their mothers…on payday.
I love revisiting scenes from this brilliant film. “Well I sorta got sidetracked.” Hits hard.
Max Mercy said he heard Hobbs was an acrobat in the circus!😄
Story of my life.
Don't we all. 😢
Paul Newman in "The Young Philadelphians" has a great line at the end, "I'm not as good as I hoped I'd be, but I'm not as bad as I thought I was."
Iris: “I believe we have two lives.”
Roy: “What do you mean?”
Iris: “I believe we have two lives. The one we learn with, and the one we have to live after that.”
Every single reaction from these characters watching him hit is absolutely perfect. The wink to the batboy is icing.
I love the whisle on the first HR!
One of the best baseball movies ever
"one of the best movies ever."
fixed it for ya.
Brimley was born looking like that, perpetually 60ish.
As a teenager, he was beloved by his friends for buying them beer.
🍺🍻
In Cocoon he was years younger than everyone else in the retirement home. He was 23 and 26 years younger than Hume Cronyn and Don Ameche. He was 9 years younger than Maureen Stapleton and 25 years younger than Jessica Tandy.
Yeah, this was his first movie, only 23 years old.
I like that scene where Hobbs comes in from the outfield and throws a pitch
Beautifully shot film with a great story. Love this film.
There is a reason Redford is a legend. Movies like this showcase that reason!
I loved him in Waldo Pepper, 3 Days of the Condor and Sneakers.
This was a perfect role for him and he was great - I believe he was 44 years at the time.
"Well you're better than anyone I ever had. And you're the best GD hitter I ever saw.......suit up."
My favorite scene in the movie.
Love that so much
🎯 gets me everytime!
Chills me to this day.
Amazing. The guy who doubted him the most in the end is the most impressed. Great storytelling
I could watch this film 3 times in a day. Perfection.
He was way too old for the part and looked like anything but a "natural" as a baseball player.
It was terrible casting.
@@ji8044 you’re kidding yourself. He was perfectly cast. Brilliantly acted, you can believe him in the role. Yes he was mid to late 40s, but that was the point, he was sign sight unseen on the basis that he was beat up and old for a baseball player.
@@rhyshilders Nope, in the book he's 35, but Redford was a ludicrous 47 years old. Plus Redford was a tennis player who never spent a single day on the diamond in his life. They had to cast very old looking actors around him, like Wilford Brimley and Richard Farnworth in an effort to make him look younger by comparison.
@@ji8044 And yet millions of us love it. To each his own. Cheers and Happy Independence Day!
@@ji8044 nah again I disagree. Couldn’t care less what was in the book. Hobbs is a person who is beaten down from life’s trials, of an age he shouldn’t be playing baseball, and Robert Redford played it perfectly.
You are entitled to not like it, but it’s a beloved movie classic for a reason, and a big chunk of that is people loving Redford in the role.
At start of BP he was called ‘grandpa.’ By the end he was called ‘kid.’
Two different people used those terms. The player called him grandpa because he was older then all of the players, the batting coach called him kid because he was older than Hobbs.
It's still shocking to me that Robert Redford was only two years younger than Wilford Brimley.
Diabetus
@@don0612And wine, booze, women and song?🤔
Wow
“The diabetus”
@@don0612😂
The Face.
I absolutely LOVE the sound of a bat hitting a ball. I go to Triple-A games in Tacoma, WA just to hear that sound!
That sound feels even better going through the hands ;)
@@jojo89ofcourse52 I'll have to take your word for it. I was a career .211 hitter through high school with no power!
Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium. They were lucky to still have it to film this. From the right angles and close-ups it could have passed for the Polo Grounds. By the way how many others noticed how horrid that water is coming out of the drinking fountain?
Come on man, that's Lake Erie water! I live down in Dunkirk and I drink that stuff every day. It's good for you, puts hair on your chest.
Every drinking fountain which looks like that has horrid water.
@@BudSchnelkerwhat’s could be wrong sharing a little iron, zinc and other heavy metals amongst friends, I say.
The manager literally brings up how bad the water is earlier in the movie when the team is losing but because he is only focused on Hobbs hitting batting practice he drinks it without noticing or complaint.
I grew up in lasalle near love canal and im fine ,, I can remember them hiring extras to fill the stadium , my cousins were in it.
I think Caleb Deschanel should have won an Oscar for his cinematography of this film. I remember watching a video of the making of this film, and Mr. Deschanel waited for quite some time for the right light for that shot of Glenn Close in that hat.
He also, nearly choked to death Mr. Redford and Ms. Hershey when they were filming in the dining car.
Beautifully shot❤
On of the best movies ever
I never noticed the color of the water when he gets a drink until now.
I guess they didn't care about rusty lead pipes back then
If I recall Pops complains about how bad the water is and usually spits it out, but is so shocked that Roy can hit that good doesn't even notice it that time.
@@jayhouston7054 "Wouldn't you think that I could get a fresh drink of water after all the years I spent in this game? Red, did you talk to that bastard partner of mine about the drinking fountain?"
@@Rosarymeds I'm not sure how you expect lead pipes to develop rust.
@@jayhouston7054notice he never takes his focus off hobbs
Not only is Robert Redford’s Roy Hobbs batting left handed and wearing No. 9, his swing is identical to one of the all time greatest hitters Ted Williams.
LMFAO,.
He was 47 years old, and the only sport he had ever played in his life was tennis. It was just absurd.
And Redford was about as unathletic as anyone. His skinny legs give away any chance to look like a power hitter, where most of the energy comes from the hips and legs. And before anyone mentions Ruth , he had a big fat ass on top of his skinny legs. All in all it was a good movie though.
It’s real good balanced swing. It’s bat speed that determines power
By cinema hitters standards definitely an above average swing. Tom Selleck may have had the best. Costner and Redford I would say are neck and neck.
If a Willie Mays movie comes out they need to find an actor who can carry the Say Hey Kid, God rest him.
@@ji8044 Go away troll. Redford played baseball at Van Nuys High School (where future L.A. Dodgers hurler Don Drysdale was on the team) and was good enough to win an athletic scholarship to the University of Colorado to play baseball, but flunked out due to partying and a drinking problem. When Drysdale was interviewed and asked about Redford, he said that Redford was a good ballplayer. Redford was a fine hitter and during rehearsals of The Natural he hit a few pitches into the upper right field deck of War Memorial Stadium.
2:30Was that water coming from the fountain brown?😂
Looked like it was !
I noticed that, too!
In an earlier scene the brown water sets him off on a rant. This is meant to show he's so captivated by Hobbs hitting he doesn't even notice.
Judge says he's workin on it
@@charlesmiller6281Bingo!
"Hobbs!" Then "Roy!" Love that
Better yet, calling him kid.
Yeah 👍🏻 😊
I love this scene so much.
He asks Hobbs everything as a viewer we would want him too. Explaining the bats history makes it real, not imaginary. It was built when he was a kid and he built it out of a tree struck by lightning. No fancy flashbacks, no call of bs from the coach. Just simple storytelling within a story.
I'm probably the only guy who will say Redford is my favorite actor and he's good here. However I was disappointed in the film. I wanted a real baseball movie like Bull Durham, not a unexplainable story and far-fetch heroics. It was rather silly.
@@billlozier5551 Story was explained rather well I thought. Each their own.
@@perceptionmatters7082 yes, so explain to me where Redford was all those years in between?
There was no reveal. He's answer was " does it matter"? Yeah, it sorta DOES! That's what a story is all about. The journey not the destination. Jmo but a rather silly answer. You must be an easy person to please. Good for you.
@@billlozier5551 He was nearly killed by a psycho fan. The injury prevented him from playing. The same injury shows at the end once his dream is complete.
Also you taking this very personally.
Everything ok ?
@@perceptionmatters7082 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for your concern. I'm fine. I just LIVE baseball and the movie was weak in my opinion which is the true opinion or not understanding me. 🤣🤣🤣
Wilfred Brimley was 25 when they filmed this.
🤣
I have to assume you were intending to make some kind of joke because clearly he wasn't 25! And btw his name was Wilford!!!........
Lol
It was before his diabeetus.
That's nothing. Max Von Sydow was 80 years old at birth and stayed that way for 91 years.
I forget how much I LOVE baseball until I see these highlights and it reminds me why it's special.
Love this film.
Absolutely love it.
Redford’s dress sense, leather jacket, shirt, tie and fedora are the dog’s bollocks.
One of my favorite scenes in movie history
A classic,instant stop down. As soon as I see it on the menu,I STOP AND WATCH
I really like that people are just discovering this brilliant movie -enjoy - it is a classic Redford and Brimley are superb
This simply a great story with great actors, great cinematography, great direction. It’s amazing that you don’t need CGI to make a great film.
It's also not the first time he is actually played a natural ... anybody ever watch him in the great Waldo pepper?
An amazing film with unmatched flying. No CGI in that one!
@@edwardpate6128 fuggin awesome .. pardon the language
Even though director Barry Levinson changed the outcome of Bernard Malamud’s novel, the film is the best baseball movie of all time. Perfectly cast and beautifully filmed, it captures the innocence of baseball in America, the relentlessness of greed, and restless spirit of the underdog.
You couldn't find a less athletic and less age appropriate group of actors if you tried.
Don Drysdale (LA Dodgers) said that Robert might have been able to play in the big leagues. They were teammates at Van Nuys High School in So Cal. Robert (or Bobby) played second base.
Amazing, he played the pivot as a left handed thrower? Or did he just learn to throw lefty for the movie? Either way i would be amazed!!!
No he never said any such thing. Redford was a tennis player. LOL
Yeah I read about that recently. It's kind of unclear how much Robert Redford actually played but Don Drysdale did like him.
Just dawned on me that Pop has simliar circumstances as Roy Hobbs; they both had one last chance before they had to give up baseball. As luck would have it, they found each other and together won it all. One kept the team and continued as its manager, the other was able to walk down the street with people saying he was 'the best there ever was in the game.'
Great movie with an old type story, no fancy crap etc, just straight forward from beginning to end
“Fancy crap!” 😂 Love it. And I agree w you 100%!
Now I have to watch this movie again tonight. Such a great movie!
My Mom was an extra in this film.... I watched the AA Buffalo Bisons play many a game in the Rockpile.... Great movie in a relic of stadium that is gone today....
this scene is so memorable for me. I love it. I especially like that brown water comes out of the water fountain.
Amazing movie, seen it so many times and just love it. Incredible.
Man, I talk about my favorite Baseball movies, but I’ve legit never seen this whole movie. May have to queue it up in the near future, see if my list needs updating!
Your list will absolutely need updating !! 👍🏻
"Hobbs, you're givin me so much crap, my Diabeetus is actin up!"
This movie and The Legend of Bagger Vance are all timers.
Brimley was great in that role!
Pop: "When I was young, Red, my mother urged me to get out of this game. When I was a kid, she pleaded with me. And I meant to, y'know, but she died."
Red: "Tough."
Pop: "I should'a got outa' this game, and I should'a been a *farmer* . I love chickens, and ducks, and pigs. Kinda' fond of nanny-goats, I am. Aw, C'mon Fowler, throw *STRIKES* !"
Red: "Fowler's killin' worms, Pop."
Glad he was a true athlete and knew how to swing a bat, unlike many of the other actors in this movie.
You mean like shoeless Joe hitting right handed?? Drives me crazy.
@@coweez8224
I know, me too.
And the actor who plays Ray Kinsella as a catcher can’t throw! Last scene of that movie always bugs me
Note Richard Farnsworth in this movie. Great actor. If you've never seen "The Straight Story" you absolutely should. Farnsworth gave us the performance of his lifetime. Sadly, he left us not long afterward.
Best baseball movie ever made
One of my favorite moments in this scene: Pop Fischer is so astounded by Hobbs' hitting that he takes a sip out of the infamous broken/polluted drinking fountain and doesn't even think to gripe (again) about how it hasn't been fixed.
This brings back a lot of ⚾️ memories as a kid
Great movie, one of my favorites! I can't think of a better baseball movie.
Eight Men Out, by john Sayles is 1000% better.
@@ji8044 I fell asleep twice watching that movie. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.😂
It is so interesting that if you listen you can hear a radial aircraft engine in the background right as Hobbs was about to enter the batting cage. This would have been period for this time in history.
Best baseball movie ever .
Kinda a toss up with Field of Dreams and Bull Durham
@@mjcruiser4238 Don't forget For The Love Of The Game
Not for me
Actually there is another on on my list “Bang the Drum Slowly”
Bad News Bears and The Sandlot
I love that scene when the third baseman wasn't paying attention and gets squared off in the nuts... I crack up every time during that scene... Losing is a disease... Lol 😝
One of the greatest movies of all time, sport-related or otherwise.
My favorite sports movie ever
Me Too!
This scene is inspiring, dreams have no expiration date.
Might be my favorite baseball movie.
One of my favourite films..
This movie is deep, it's working on multiple levels, lots of symbolism. The whole movie has Greek/Arthurian symbology. The name of the team is the Knights, the bat represents Excalibur, the Judge likes the dark (Hades), the journalist Max Mercy represents Vulcan as he is able to make and break men. Hobbs' whole journey to get back to baseball is like the Odyssey, Iris Gaines is like the Lady in the Water and the woman on the train/Memo Paris are like the Sirens, keeping him from his true destiny, retuning home (baseball/greatness). The gambler, Gus Sands, is Psychlops, in fact, in one scene he covers an eye as he tries to guess how much money is in Hobbs' pocket. Pop Fischer is the Fischer King, both the protector and embodiment of the game of baseball. This true masterpiece is filled with great feats by Roy Hobbs, mythical accomplishments: knocking the cover off a baseball, making a bat from a true struck by lightning, hitting four homers in one game, hitting a ball through the clock and, of course, the finale where he creates an early light show my crushing a ball into the stadium lights....one of the greatest moments ion cinema.
I love baseball movies and The Natural is a fav
my favorite scene is the one where he hits a home run.
Tremendous film
SUCH a good movie!!
On my top all time movies list!
constraints or control... the reality of better over time and space and honesty and kindness...
What a Great Movie!!
This is the Roy Hobbs of sport movies.
Best baseball movie of all time and its not even close.
Such a good movie
Great movie!
"Not bad kid" hahahahahahahaha!
This was my fav BB movie
I did not appreciate the supporting cast when this was released, it so much talent.
One of the best 😮
My favourite movie as a kid
Really a good movie.
Greatest baseball movie ever.
I've never seen chocolate milk come out of a drinking fountain.
Just live by Homer Simpson water rules. If its brown, drink it down... If its black, send it back.
Redford went to Van Nuys High School and played on the baseball team, where his teammate was future pitching legend, Don Drysdale.
Best sports movie ever made.
Best baseball movie ever...
How come I can't find his RC? Anywhere.
Underrated film!! Love it.
Underated?
How?
What color was the water coming out of that fountain?
Wilford Brimley was only 48 years of age when this was filmed.
They should've tested him with another bat. :p Not to mention, even if the bat wasn't regulation, he connected with every pitch.
Very good
Magical movie made believable by Redford, Brimley, and others
The Natural is the best sports movie of all time
How many know the heroic, romantic movie ending is NOT what is in the book?
He took the $$
Hard to believe Wilford was 2 years younger than Redford in this movie.
i like the scene where he swings the bat and hits the ball
One of Movie Worlds best ever movies that never really received the accolades it deserved.
Bob Nutting must sign this Hobbs guy pronto!! 🤣🤣🤣
Redford has a sweet swing. Can’t learn that.
I was an extra in this movie I was a little kid and I remember I had to get notes from my dad to say I was late for school because I was filming in the morning.... and the women who worked in the attendance office would frame them and put them up... I had no idea who Robert Redford was and I got to play baseball and catch with him..... I remember he had a lot of makeup on and his face look purple.... he was talking to Glenn Close and I didn't know who she was either, so I went over and I started tugginh on his sleeve asking him if I could get a picture with him.... he looked at me and said what? And I asked can I get a picture with him and he agreed.... and I pushed Glenn Close out of the picture because I didn't want her in it..... my dad freaked out when he saw the photograph.. I see myself in the movie several times and it's funny to look back at that.. it was an incredible experience that I wish I had when I was older so I could have appreciated it more
Nobody else mentioned it so I will. The exchange in the dark tunnel where you can’t see either of their faces. Homer?
The Rockpile was beautiful
Redford actually has nice looking swing
Robert Redford was a natural athlete, in college he walked onto the tennis team and made all conference. Seriously !!
Zack Hample should have been in the movie.