It’s simple, hugely effective, and works. Costner’s Ray Kinsella, in his field, hearing ‘the voice’ for the first time. Take the two particualar scenes in Field Of Dreams where he grounds his camera, and makes his actors move in and out of shot as examples. It’s a real pity either way, as he’s an unfussy director, and a very natural storyteller. He’s stepped behind the camera so few times, and I wonder if that’s a reason. He clearly knew he was onto something special, and has admitted to feeling the pressure of expectation of that. Still, it’s interesting to note that Robinson didn’t have a happy time on the movie. That said, I don’t want to dig too much into the behind the scenes production for this piece, not least because the aforementioned documentary does the job amazingly well. Given the challenges of growing crops, and getting the exteriors right, this was no small hurdle that the filmmakers had to tackle.
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At this point in time, he’d just done Bull Durham(which hadn’t at that point been released), and thus there was some doubt that he’d commit to another baseball movie straight away.īut Costner saw something in the script, reportedly saying that he thought the movie could be “this generation’s It’s A Wonderful Life.” That said, he didn’t have much time to fit the movie in, as he was due on the set of Tony Scott’s Revengein August 1988, and cameras didn’t start rolling on Field Of Dreams until the end of May ’88.
Shoeless Joe was the working title of the movie, and Kevin Costner made it went his star was on the rise, but not quite in the stratosphere ( Dances With Wolves was two films away). As with his next film, Sneakers, it took him a long time to do so, with Robinson first suggesting the adaptation in 1981, eight years prior to the film’s eventual release. It told the story of how writer-director Phil Alden Robinson skilfully captured W P Kinsella’s book, Shoeless Joe, and brought it to the screen. I don’t think it’s, er, on my HD DVD copy). On the first DVD release of Field Of Dreams, you’ll find one of the very best making-of documentaries for a contemporary film that I’ve seen (it’s since turned up on Blu-ray, too.
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