Field of Dreams

to ease it? I don't know. 468 00:39:58,813 --> 00:40:00,773 Ray. Well, Ann... 469 00:40:00,857 --> 00:40:03,902 Look, he's my favorite writer, too, 470 00:40:03,985 --> 00:40:07,447 but what's Terence mann got to do with baseball? 471 00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:36,976 Annie, it's incredible. By the early '703, 472 00:40:37,060 --> 00:40:39,604 mann decides people have become either too extremist 473 00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,481 or too apathetic to listen. 474 00:40:41,564 --> 00:40:44,567 So he stops writing books, 475 00:40:44,651 --> 00:40:47,612 he starts writing poetry about whales, 476 00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:51,115 and then he starts fooling around with a computer. 477 00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:52,867 Know what he does now? 478 00:40:52,951 --> 00:40:55,370 He writes software for interactive children's videos. 479 00:40:55,453 --> 00:40:59,082 They teach kids how to resolve their conflicts peacefully. 480 00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:01,626 God, what an amazing guy. 481 00:41:01,709 --> 00:41:03,544 What's that got to do with baseball? 482 00:41:03,628 --> 00:41:05,713 In the April 1962 issue of jet magazine, 483 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:08,883 there's a story called "this is not a kite." 484 00:41:08,967 --> 00:41:10,718 It's not his best work, 485 00:41:10,802 --> 00:41:14,097 but the story's hero 486 00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:16,516 is named John kinsella, my father. 487 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:17,684 Wow. 488 00:41:17,767 --> 00:41:19,477 What do you mean, "wow"? 489 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,606 Big wow! What's it got to do with baseball? 490 00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:25,024 You drive. 491 00:41:30,321 --> 00:41:33,449 Okay, the last interview he ever gave was in 1973. 492 00:41:33,533 --> 00:41:34,784 Guess what it's about. 493 00:41:34,867 --> 00:41:36,411 Some kind of team sport. 494 00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:39,580 Mann was a baseball fanatic. Listen to this. 495 00:41:39,664 --> 00:41:43,376 "My earliest recurring dream was to play at ebbets field" 496 00:41:43,459 --> 00:41:45,837 "with Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers." 497 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,506 "It never happened. The Dodgers left Brooklyn." 498 00:41:48,589 --> 00:41:53,052 "Ebbets field is gone, but I still dream that dream." 499 00:41:53,386 --> 00:41:54,762 That's sad. 500 00:41:57,223 --> 00:42:00,268 Ray: The man wrote the best books of his generation. 501 00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:04,731 He was a pioneer in the civil rights and the antiwar movement. 502 00:42:04,814 --> 00:42:06,858 I mean, he made the cover of news week. 503 00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:10,945 He knew everybody. He did everything. He helped shape his time. 504 00:42:11,029 --> 00:42:13,239 The guy hung out with the Beatles. 505 00:42:13,322 --> 00:42:16,325 It wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball. 506 00:42:16,409 --> 00:42:17,994 Oh, my god! What? 507 00:42:18,077 --> 00:42:21,205 "As a small boy, he had a bat named rosebud." 508 00:42:21,289 --> 00:42:23,374 Give me that. Sorry. 509 00:42:23,458 --> 00:42:26,961 The guy hasn't been to a baseball game since 1958. 510 00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:31,424 So, in order to ease his pain, you're supposed to take him to a ballgame. 511 00:42:31,507 --> 00:42:32,592 Yes. 512 00:42:33,968 --> 00:42:36,721 Ray, this is nuttier than building the baseball field. 513 00:42:36,804 --> 00:42:38,056 No. No, it's not. 514 00:42:38,139 --> 00:42:42,101 It's pretty weird, but building the field was 5, 10% weirder. 515 00:42:42,185 --> 00:42:44,896 I'm going to have to nip this one in the bud. 516 00:42:44,979 --> 00:42:48,316 We're having moderate-to-heavy financial difficulties here. 517 00:42:48,399 --> 00:42:51,736 And you can't take off for Boston while we're going broke in Iowa. 518 00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:54,072 This is really new territory for us, 519 00:42:54,155 --> 00:42:56,741 but we're dealing with primal forces of nature. 520 00:42:56,824 --> 00:43:00,870 The prudent thing is not to quibble over details. 521 00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:05,416 Yeah, but why do you have to go? Why can't the voice send somebody else? 522 00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:08,503 How about Shirley MacLaine? Is she too busy? 523 00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:10,588 What does this have to do with you? 524 00:43:10,671 --> 00:43:12,882 Ray: That's what I have to find out. 525 00:43:12,965 --> 00:43:17,095 Ray, we are behind on the mortgage. That field ate up all of our savings. 526 00:43:17,178 --> 00:43:18,638 We could lose this farm. 527 00:43:18,721 --> 00:43:22,350 I won't even stay in motels. I'll sleep in the car. I'll beg for food. 528 00:43:22,433 --> 00:43:24,685 No. No! Now, this is too much! 529 00:43:27,105 --> 00:43:31,150 Now, look. I understand your need to prove to yourself and to the world 530 00:43:31,234 --> 00:43:33,653 you are not turning into yo...