He built it, he came, could they afford to stay?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In the movie “Field of Dreams”, Kevin Costner’s character is haunted by a voice that says “If you build it, he will come”. Kevin quickly figures out the “it” is a baseball diamond in his Iowa cornfield, and by the end of the movie he finds the “he” is his father, a long dead former baseball player. Kevin embarks on a path of financial ruin to fulfil the quest and his brother-in-law the banker is about to take away the farm, the cornfield and the baseball diamond. But the movie seems to end happily when the brother-in-law suddenly can see the ghost baseball players on the field and James Earl Jones’ character proclaims that “People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door, innocent as children, longing for the past” and that these people will gladly pay $20 a head to see the baseball players play a game on the diamond because “money they have, but peace they lack”.

So my question is this. Could Kevin Costner’s character realistically make out financially at $20 a pop for people to watch a game? Did the local authorities rezone his property commercial after they caught wind of his paying guests? Did they have to install a left-hand turn lane on the highway leading to his farm and charge him for the improvement? Did 20/20 do a scoop with Barbara Walters asking the burning question “Wherew are these baw pwayers and why is evewywon paying twenty dwowers?”. Did congress enact any legislation to prevent ghost ball players filing for social security? These and many other burning questions were left with me after watching the movie.

I want to say that I really liked “Field of Dreams” and this seems to be one of those hot/cold movies you either really like or hate, but I loved it and not knocking the movie, I just had these silly questions in my head after it was over.

Does anyone else have any questions like that for this movie or any other ones? It can be a movie you like or a movie you hate, I don’t care. Or if you think you have an answer to my theoretical questions or anyone elses I would like you to post those as well. For those of you who absolutely hate this or any other movie comment on here and feel compelled to comment on it anyway, please at least make the comments original and entertaining and to keep this post out of “the bbq pit” no profanity please.

Bruce

Let’s See What’s Out There … Engage

The world’s loneliest doper.

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I finally saw it this last week (Sci-Fi channel, right?). A lot better than I thought it’d be.

A few nits, though:
[ul][li]Frankly, I don’t think that the loss of 3.67 acres of farmland would bankrupt Ray. Maybe it was just the cost of turning on the stadium lights every night that was eating away his bank account.[/li][li]At the end, the cars started coming. But the ballplayers had called it a night, and it was just the Kinsellas playing catch. They’re not getting my $20.[/li][li]Where did Anni learn to be a wife? Every married woman I know would’ve said, “You wanna build a what!?”[/ul][/li]

You must unlearn what you have learned. – Yoda

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This is a family joke at my house because my father, hard-headed, depression-era realist that he is, considers it absolutely insane that anyone would cut down a perfectly good field of corn to build a baseball field. He doesn’t think it was a good idea to cut down the corn to make the movie. He never even began to see any other aspect of the film. He watched it, or part of it anyway, on videotape years ago and to this day we can get a rise out of him just by bringing it up.

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Pluto-
You should let your dad know that the actual field in Iowa is still there and is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the state.