Already feeling guilty about her sister Kit being traded to Racine, and knowing that she’s going to leave the league to go back to Oregon, Dottie’s the catcher in game seven of the World Series with two outs when Kit hits a long ball past the centerfielder. This should have put the tying run across the plate and left Kit on third. But Kit disregards the third base coach and barrels on towards home. Dottie catches the ball and is ready to tag Kit out, but Kit slams into her; Dottie loses the ball and Kit crosses home plate for a Racine win of the game and the series.
We saw Dottie hang on to the ball in similar circumstances earlier in the year.
Did Dottie decide to let Kit be the hero and deliberately drop the ball?
haha…this was just on HBO this morning! Im not sure she throws the game tho. She did go to the pitcher and tell her to throw the high heat, which her sister cant hit. If she wanted to throw the game why try and strike her out?
I disagree. I think Kit just knocked the hell out of Dottie, perhaps (if you want to get into subtext) because of all that pent up sibling rivalry. Dottie took the game seriously, and dramatically, it was much more interesting to see the team come that far and then lose. Kit was simply the plot device.
I thought it obvious that Dottie threw the game. In the earlier scene when she held on to the ball, wasn’t it shot from almost the same angle? It doesn’t seem ambiguous to me at all. I also don’t find it inconsistent with her instruction to throw the heat; this is the type of mood that can change second to second, and Dottie realized when she told the pitcher what to throw that she’d crossed the line she’d drawn.
What I meant by “ambiguous” was that those who think she deliberately let go of the ball will find ways to support their view, as you just did. Those who don’t will find ways to support that view, as kunilou did.
I also agree that she threw the game, and that it was pretty obvious to me. Especially considering Dottie’s looking at the field, looking at her husband, etc. right before that - an obvious choice that to her, she had everything that she needed, and that single Kit had much more to gain by winning.
Hmm. I always thought it was more that Kit’s heart was more into the game than Dottie’s. I even noted that Dottie had made the same play successfully earlier in the film. I thought the film was just saying that Kit had turned it up a notch and that Dottie didn’t truly want the win as much as Kit.
But I can see her “throwing” it.
In fact, with this in mind, it makes the scene at the end where Kit and Dottie talk after the game much more interesting.
I had always thought Dottie was feeling awkward around Kit because Geena Davis is a bad actress and ALWAYS seems awkward. But maybe it was that, “YOU GOT ME” act that one puts on when they let someone win and are trying to act deferential.
Jesus man, that movie is over 10 years old. Pretty much everypne who wanted to see it has seen it by now, and if that ‘spoiled’ the moive for you, you obviously didn’t want to see it anyway
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’ll bet you tell everyone that Rosebud is a sled, the chick in The Crying Game has a penis, and Bruce Willis is dead, people. :rolleyes:
Just because it’s an old movie doesn’t mean it’s ok to spoil the ending. I saw The Bad News Bears for the first time recently and the ending surprised the hell out of me (mainly because it seemed like the type of film destined for a “cliche” ending, heh.) Yeah, anyone reading a thread about a specific movie should expect spoilers whether they’re indicated or not, but this one’s in the freakin’ TITLE, fer cryin’ out loud. Someone did that for a Harry Potter book a couple years back, and I was pissed because I hadn’t gotten around to reading Goblet of Fire yet. :mad:
That’s what I thought. Not as much that she deliberately threw the game, but that she was only playing at 95%, as opposed to Kit’s 110%, (to throw around sports cliches), and so Kit won.
I’ve got a perspective I don’t think has been mentioned yet - I’m the eldest child in my family, and have always thought that it was clear Dottie threw the game.
When I mentioned this to my little sister, however, I got an earful about it, as she thinks the movie went out of its way to show that Kit really did beat Dottie in the end.
I’d be interested in knowing where the other posters in this thread stand, sibling-wise, and if they thought it had any influence on their interpretation.
Frankly, I felt that this part of the rules applied. I’m willing to admit, on review, that it wouldn’t have hurt anything to make the title more ambiguous.
