It was on yesterday. On Terrestrial TV. I was flicking through the channels and there it was. I watched it all the way through, cried several times and thought it was utterly delightful in a way Hollywood can't seem to do any more. There was none of the bravado and cynicism of 'man flicks' that Hollywood regurgitates on a regular basis these days. It was charming and brave and played it straight all the way through, didn't once sneer. Maybe Hollywood 'think's we don't want this sort of escapist fantasy any more; they're wrong. Now, onto my 'bought the farm' concept. I think you could make Field of Dreams (the extra scenes) ala The Event where we see how all the major characters got to where they are in the hierarchy of the narrative. In the case of Field of Dreams, we can see how they died. This is my basic concept, and I like it more and more. At the start of the film, Kevin Costner's character has used up his life and plays the 'bought the farm' card. He is dead. Even the baseball playing 'ghosts' ask him, "Is this heaven?" It's like, if ever you have contact with 'another dimension' in a movie, it's because you are a part/resident of that other dimension already. His daughter is the first to see Ray Liotta standing out in the diamond in his RedSox kit. She shows Costner. Costner shows his wife. Throughout the film, we see that more and more people come to 'see' these ghosts playing this game on his constructed diamond. Even the real estate person eventually sees the game, claiming, "Don't sell this farm." Does this mean that more and more people die during the course of the film? This might have been 'given away' finally when Costner's reality starts to timeslip and he finds he can pick up younger versions of older heros to 'try out' for the Field of Dreams baseball team. We see that Mann, James Earl Jones' writer, can walk off into the cornfield with THE OTHER DEAD PEOPLE. It's never specifically mentioned, and I can't understand by but, my feeling is Costner's dead at the start of this film, especially when he finally throws the baseball to his dad on the other side. A message, a token of reality, has passed between them. They share the same space. Heaven or wherever you will... is the final scene a reference to this TRANS-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL that Costner's death business has created? A way to ferry the dead to 'the other side' using some culture-laden meme like Baseball?
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Kevin Costner - Field of Dreams - Bought the Farm
Posted on the 23 March 2014 by Freeplanet @CUST0D1AN
in the Kevin Costner marketing vehicle FIELD OF DREAMS (1989), his character opens the film as he's "bought the farm" into which he under-ploughs an authentic (if seemingly pointless) baseball diamond. Throughout my entire adult life it's never occurred to me to watch this film. It just wasn't anything that interested me. Wrong lead. Wrong narrative. Wrong everything. 
It was on yesterday. On Terrestrial TV. I was flicking through the channels and there it was. I watched it all the way through, cried several times and thought it was utterly delightful in a way Hollywood can't seem to do any more. There was none of the bravado and cynicism of 'man flicks' that Hollywood regurgitates on a regular basis these days. It was charming and brave and played it straight all the way through, didn't once sneer. Maybe Hollywood 'think's we don't want this sort of escapist fantasy any more; they're wrong. Now, onto my 'bought the farm' concept. I think you could make Field of Dreams (the extra scenes) ala The Event where we see how all the major characters got to where they are in the hierarchy of the narrative. In the case of Field of Dreams, we can see how they died. This is my basic concept, and I like it more and more. At the start of the film, Kevin Costner's character has used up his life and plays the 'bought the farm' card. He is dead. Even the baseball playing 'ghosts' ask him, "Is this heaven?" It's like, if ever you have contact with 'another dimension' in a movie, it's because you are a part/resident of that other dimension already. His daughter is the first to see Ray Liotta standing out in the diamond in his RedSox kit. She shows Costner. Costner shows his wife. Throughout the film, we see that more and more people come to 'see' these ghosts playing this game on his constructed diamond. Even the real estate person eventually sees the game, claiming, "Don't sell this farm." Does this mean that more and more people die during the course of the film? This might have been 'given away' finally when Costner's reality starts to timeslip and he finds he can pick up younger versions of older heros to 'try out' for the Field of Dreams baseball team. We see that Mann, James Earl Jones' writer, can walk off into the cornfield with THE OTHER DEAD PEOPLE. It's never specifically mentioned, and I can't understand by but, my feeling is Costner's dead at the start of this film, especially when he finally throws the baseball to his dad on the other side. A message, a token of reality, has passed between them. They share the same space. Heaven or wherever you will... is the final scene a reference to this TRANS-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL that Costner's death business has created? A way to ferry the dead to 'the other side' using some culture-laden meme like Baseball?
It was on yesterday. On Terrestrial TV. I was flicking through the channels and there it was. I watched it all the way through, cried several times and thought it was utterly delightful in a way Hollywood can't seem to do any more. There was none of the bravado and cynicism of 'man flicks' that Hollywood regurgitates on a regular basis these days. It was charming and brave and played it straight all the way through, didn't once sneer. Maybe Hollywood 'think's we don't want this sort of escapist fantasy any more; they're wrong. Now, onto my 'bought the farm' concept. I think you could make Field of Dreams (the extra scenes) ala The Event where we see how all the major characters got to where they are in the hierarchy of the narrative. In the case of Field of Dreams, we can see how they died. This is my basic concept, and I like it more and more. At the start of the film, Kevin Costner's character has used up his life and plays the 'bought the farm' card. He is dead. Even the baseball playing 'ghosts' ask him, "Is this heaven?" It's like, if ever you have contact with 'another dimension' in a movie, it's because you are a part/resident of that other dimension already. His daughter is the first to see Ray Liotta standing out in the diamond in his RedSox kit. She shows Costner. Costner shows his wife. Throughout the film, we see that more and more people come to 'see' these ghosts playing this game on his constructed diamond. Even the real estate person eventually sees the game, claiming, "Don't sell this farm." Does this mean that more and more people die during the course of the film? This might have been 'given away' finally when Costner's reality starts to timeslip and he finds he can pick up younger versions of older heros to 'try out' for the Field of Dreams baseball team. We see that Mann, James Earl Jones' writer, can walk off into the cornfield with THE OTHER DEAD PEOPLE. It's never specifically mentioned, and I can't understand by but, my feeling is Costner's dead at the start of this film, especially when he finally throws the baseball to his dad on the other side. A message, a token of reality, has passed between them. They share the same space. Heaven or wherever you will... is the final scene a reference to this TRANS-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL that Costner's death business has created? A way to ferry the dead to 'the other side' using some culture-laden meme like Baseball?
