Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Terence Mann.Arc Words: "If you build it, he will come." "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance" are secondary arc words, but just as important.And I'm the Queen of Sheba: When introduced to Terence Mann, Mark calls himself "the Easter Bunny".Adaptation Title Change: Field of Dreams is based on the novel Shoeless Joe.The entire scene was created to give Amy Madigan's character something to do, as well as give an early indication of Mann's character.
Adaptation Expansion: There was no book banning scene in the book. The book also contained subplots about Ray's identical twin brother Richard and an aging ex-ballplayer named Eddie Scissons. Terence Mann in the film is a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of J. Adaptation Distillation: In the book, Ray meets his father in the last third of story, rather than at the climax. Actual Pacifist: Terence, which is how Ray is able to call Terence's bluff when he attacks him. It was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is one of Costner's most well-known films and also one of James Earl Jones' most famous roles outside of voicing Darth Vader and Mufasa. Even he doesn't have a clue why, but decides to continue acting on these strange impressions.įield of Dreams has a very strange concept, but what it carries is an underlying metaphor of faith and redemption. Unfortunately, Ray and his family are the only ones who see the players and the bank is looking down on them.Įventually Ray receives another insight ("Ease his pain") and comes to believe that this means he has to track down aging author Terence Mann (Jones) and take him to a baseball game. Eventually more dead baseball players from Jackson's era return to play. But after a few months, Shoeless Joe (Liotta) does appear, bewildered himself but with an honest desire to play some baseball. With the farm barely making a profit to begin with, the cost of building the baseball field and the loss of the farmland it occupies puts the Kinsellas in financial trouble. But after a long talk with his wife Annie (Madigan), Ray decides that he wants to do something outrageous because it feels right and not be afraid of what others might think. For obvious reasons, Ray is left wondering how he could ever get such a bizarre idea. One night, Ray is out in his cornfield when he hears a disembodied voice whisper "If you build it, he will come." Surprised, he is later given a vision that what he is supposed to build is a baseball field, and that the famously disgraced (and long-deceased) "Shoeless" Joe Jackson will return from the dead to play baseball there. Ray Kinsella (Costner) is an honest farmer with a nice family, but explains in the prologue that he and his father, who was a baseball fanatic, had a falling-out and were unable to reconcile before the latter's death. Kinsella, the film is built on a unique story idea about an Iowa farmer who feels compelled to build an expensive baseball field. A 1989 fantasy film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, and Burt Lancaster (in his last film).Īdapted from the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe by W.P.
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