Did anyone know this was based on the Bhagavad Gita? I saw the movie when it came out but didn’t make the connection at all. I guess I need to watch it again. Or maybe I should just read the book-- has anyone read it?
Oh, that’s why the guy with the gnosis is black!
Krishna: original/seminal Magical Negro?
I hated the movie.
That said, I always thought “Rannulph Junnuh” sounded like a ridiculously contrived name. It makes a bit more sense if your realize he represents Arjuna (“R. Junnuh”), the protagonist of the Gita.
The movie still sucks, though. I’ve always been annoyed by people who treat baseball as some kind of mystical metaphor for life. I like it no better when the metaphor involves golf.
or Osiris?
or Nimrod?
I knew it was based on the Bhagavad Gita from the start, but avoided it.
I like Jeremy Leven’s books, and I love both the movie and the book Creator, but sometimes Leven gets too weird for his own good. Turning the Bhagavad Gita into a golfing epic is oine of those times.
He did Don Juan de Marco, too.
The book is better and more explicit about it’s connection to the Gita.
You can’t blame Leven for it, it’s right out of Steven Pressfield’s book. If anything he toned down the religious aspect of it.
Yes, I can. He chose to write the screenplay.
Interesting. Never knew that, doesn’t really make me want to see/read Bagger Vance more- but it is a fun fact to know. And I could imagine how it plays out then perhaps.
From what I’ve read, it’s loosely based on the Gita, yes. Haven’t seen it.
Yeah, it’s based on the Gita. Do you know about this edition?
No-- why?