[NFBP-Talk] Audio Described Movie!

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> *Subject:* Audio Described Movie!
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> Hi All,
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> Do you like baseball? How about movies about baseball? Well here is your
> chance to relive a classic movie!
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> Date: Friday, March 4, 2022
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> Time: 8:00 PM Eastern
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> Event: Field of Dreams Audio Described
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> Location: Federation Center Zoom
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> Below is the Zoom information you will need to join us. Be sure to read
> the material after the Zoom information to find out more about the movie.
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> Plot
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> Ray Kinsella, who is 36, lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin,
> on their Dyersville, Iowa corn farm. Troubled by his broken relationship
> with his late father, John Kinsella, a devoted baseball fan, he fears
> growing old without achieving anything.
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> While walking through his cornfield one evening, he hears a voice
> whispering, "If you build it, he will come." He sees a vision of a baseball
> diamond in the cornfield and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson standing in the middle.
> Believing in him, Annie lets him plow under part of their corn crop to
> build a baseball field, at risk of financial hardship.
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> As Ray builds the field, he tells Karin about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
> Several months pass and just as Ray is beginning to doubt himself, Shoeless
> Joe reappears, asking if others can play and returns with the seven other
> Black Sox players. Annie's brother, Mark, can't see the players. He warns
> the couple they are going bankrupt and offers to buy their land. The voice,
> meanwhile, urges Ray to "ease his pain."
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> Ray and Annie attend a PTA meeting, where she argues against someone who
> is trying to ban books by Terrence Mann. Ray deduces the voice was
> referring to Mann, who had named one of his characters "John Kinsella" and
> had once professed a childhood dream of playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
> When Ray and Annie have identical dreams about Ray and Mann attending a
> game at Fenway Park, Ray finds Mann in Boston. Mann, a recluse, agrees to
> attend one game. There Ray hears the voice urging him to "go the distance",
> seeing statistics on the scoreboard for Archie "Moonlight" Graham, who
> played in one game for the New York Giants in 1922 but never got to bat.
> Mann also admits to hearing the voice and seeing the scoreboard.
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> They drive to Minnesota, learning that Graham, who was a physician, had
> died years earlier. Ray finds himself in 1972, encountering an elderly
> Graham, who says he happily left baseball for a satisfying medical career.
> During the drive back to Iowa, Ray picks up young hitchhiker Archie Graham
> (Frank Whaley), who is looking for a baseball team to join. Ray later tells
> Mann that his father dreamed of being a baseball player then tried to make
> him pick up the sport instead. At 14, after reading one of Mann's books,
> Ray stopped playing catch with his father, and they became estranged after
> he mocked John for having "a hero who was a criminal." Ray admits that his
> greatest regret is that his father died before they could reconcile.
> Arriving at the farm, they see various all-star players have arrived,
> fielding a second team. A game is played and Graham finally gets his turn
> at bat.
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> The next morning, Mark returns, demanding that Ray sell the farm or the
> bank will foreclose on him. Karin insists that people will pay to watch the
> ballgames. Mann agrees, saying that "people will come" to relive their
> childhood innocence. Ray and Mark scuffle, knocking Karin off the
> bleachers. Graham — despite knowing he will be unable to return after
> stepping off the field — saves her. Having become old Dr. Graham again, he
> reassures Ray that he has no regrets. He is commended by the other players,
> and then disappears into the corn field. Suddenly, Mark too can see the
> players and urges Ray to keep the farm.
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> Shoeless Joe invites Mann to enter the corn and Mann disappears into it.
> Ray is angry at not being invited but Joe rebukes him, glancing towards the
> catcher at home plate, saying, "If you build it, he will come." When the
> catcher removes his mask, Ray recognizes him as his father as a young man.
> Ray realizes "ease his pain" referred to his own regrets.
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> Ray introduces John to his wife and daughter, initially without referring
> to him as his father. As John begins to head towards the cornfield, Ray,
> calling him "Dad", asks if he wants to have a catch. John gladly accepts as
> hundreds of cars are seen approaching the field, fulfilling the prophecy
> that people will come to watch baseball.
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> Cast
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> Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella
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> Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella
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> Gaby Hoffmann as Karin Kinsella
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> James Earl Jones as Terence Mann
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> Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson
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> Timothy Busfield as Mark
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> Burt Lancaster as Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham
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> Frank Whaley as young Archibald Graham
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> Dwier Brown as John Kinsella
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> Lee Garlington as Beulah Gasnick
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> Michael Milhoan as Buck Weaver (3B)
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> Steve Eastin as Eddie Cicotte (P)
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> Charles Hoyes as Swede Risberg (C)
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> Art LaFleur as Chick Gandil (1B)
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> In addition, Anne Seymour, who died four months before the film's release,
> makes her final film appearance as the kindly Chisholm publisher who helps
> Ray and Mann. The identity of the actor who provided "The Voice", who
> speaks to Ray throughout the film, has remained unconfirmed since the
> film's release. Some believe it is Costner or Liotta, but the book's author
> W. P. Kinsella said he was told it was Ed Harris (Madigan's husband).
> Then-teenagers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were extras in the Fenway Park
> scene.[6][7]
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> Production
>
> Phil Alden Robinson read Shoeless Joe in 1981 and liked it so much that he
> brought it to producers Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon. Lawrence Gordon
> worked for 20th Century Fox, part of the time as its president, and
> repeatedly mentioned that the book should be adapted into a film, but the
> studio always turned down the suggestion because they felt the project was
> too esoteric and noncommercial. Meanwhile, Robinson went ahead with his
> script, frequently consulting Kinsella for advice on the adaptation.
> Lawrence Gordon left Fox in 1986 and started pitching the adaptation to
> other studios. Universal Pictures accepted the project in 1987 and hired
> USC coach Rod Dedeaux as baseball advisor. Dedeaux brought along World
> Series champion and USC alumnus Don Buford to coach the actors.[8]
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> The film was shot using the novel's title; eventually, an executive
> decision was made to rename it Field of Dreams. Robinson did not like the
> name, saying he loved Shoeless Joe, and that the new title was better
> suited for one about dreams deferred. Kinsella told Robinson after the fact
> that his original title for the book had been The Dream Field and that the
> publisher had imposed the title Shoeless Joe.[9]
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> Casting
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> Robinson and the producers did not originally consider Kevin Costner for
> the part of Ray Kinsella because they did not think that he would want to
> follow Bull Durham with another baseball film. The role of Ray was first
> offered to Tom Hanks but he turned it down.[10] He did, however, end up
> reading the script and became interested in the project, stating that he
> felt it would be "this generation's It's a Wonderful Life". Since
> Robinson's directing debut In the Mood had been a commercial failure,
> Costner also said that he would help him with the production. Amy Madigan,
> a fan of the book, joined the cast as Ray's wife, Annie. In the book, the
> writer Ray seeks out its real-life author J.D. Salinger. When Salinger
> threatened the production with a lawsuit if his name was used, Robinson
> decided to rewrite the character as reclusive Terence Mann. He wrote with
> James Earl Jones in mind because he thought it would be fun to see Ray
> trying to kidnap such a big man. Robinson had originally envisioned
> Shoeless Joe Jackson as being played by an actor in his 40s, someone who
> would be older than Costner and who could thereby act as a father
> surrogate. Ray Liotta did not fit that criterion, but Robinson thought he
> would be a better fit for the part because he had the "sense of danger" and
> ambiguity which Robinson wanted in the character. The role of Moonlight
> Graham was offered to James Stewart but he turned it down.[11] Burt
> Lancaster had originally turned down the part of Moonlight Graham, but
> changed his mind after a friend, who was also a baseball fan, told him that
> he had to work on the film.[8]
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> Filming
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> Filming began on May 25, 1988. The shooting schedule was built around
> Costner's availability because he would be leaving in August to film
> Revenge. Except for some weather delays and other time constraints,
> production rolled six days a week. The interior scenes were the first ones
> shot because the cornfield planted by the filmmakers was taking too long to
> grow. Irrigation had to be used to quickly grow the corn to Costner's
> height. Primary shot locations were in Dubuque County, Iowa; a farm near
> Dyersville was used for the Kinsella home; an empty warehouse in Dubuque
> was used to build various interior sets. Galena, Illinois, served as
> Moonlight Graham's Chisholm, Minnesota.[8] One week was spent on location
> shots in Boston, most notably Fenway Park.[12]
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> Robinson, despite having a sufficient budget as well as the cast and crew
> he wanted, constantly felt tense and depressed during filming. He felt that
> he was under too much pressure to create an outstanding film, and that he
> was not doing justice to the original novel. Lawrence Gordon convinced him
> that the end product would be effective.[8]
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> During a lunch with the Iowa Chamber of Commerce, Robinson broached his
> idea of a final scene in which headlights could be seen for miles along the
> horizon. The Chamber folks replied that it could be done and the shooting
> of the final scene became a community event. The film crew was hidden on
> the farm to make sure the aerial shots did not reveal them. A production
> assistant drove from the set into town and measured the distance between,
> deducing it would require 2,500 cars to fill the shot.[13] Dyersville was
> then blacked out and local extras drove their vehicles to the field. In
> order to give the illusion of movement, the drivers were instructed to
> continuously switch between their low and high beams.
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> Field
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> The Field of Dreams, Dyersville, Iowa, 2012
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> Main article: Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa)
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> Scenes of the Kinsella farm were taken on the property of Don Lansing in
> Dyersville, Iowa; some of the baseball field scenes were shot on the
> neighboring farm of Al Ameskamp. Because the shooting schedule was too
> short for grass to naturally grow, the experts on sod laying responsible
> for Dodger Stadium and the Rose Bowl were hired to create the baseball
> field. Part of the process involved painting the turf green.[8]
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> After shooting, Ameskamp again grew corn on his property; Lansing
> maintained his as a tourist destination.[8] He did not charge for admission
> or parking, deriving revenue solely from the souvenir shop. By the film's
> twentieth anniversary, approximately 65,000 people visited annually.[14] In
> July 2010, the farm containing the "Field" was listed as for sale.[15] It
> was sold on October 31, 2011, to Go The Distance Baseball, LLC, for an
> undisclosed fee, believed to be around $5.4 million.[16]
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> MLB at Field of Dreams
>
> Main article: MLB at Field of Dreams
>
> In 2019, Major League Baseball announced that it would hold a special
> neutral-site regular season game between the Chicago White Sox and New York
> Yankees at the Dyersville site on August 13, 2020, playing on an 8,000-seat
> field constructed adjacent to the original, with a pathway connecting the
> two. The field would be modeled upon the White Sox's former field, Comiskey
> Park (which was used from 1910 to 1990).[17] As of July 1, 2020, the game
> was to still be played on August 13, 2020, but because of the shortened
> 2020 Major League Baseball season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the White
> Sox would play the St. Louis Cardinals.[18] On August 3, 2020, Major League
> Baseball announced that the game was cancelled due to logistical
> difficulties. It was later postponed to 2021.[19]
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> The game was eventually held on the field on August 12, 2021, with the
> originally announced matchup of the White Sox and Yankees.[20][21] In the
> pre-game show, Kevin Costner emerged from the cornfield onto the outfield,
> followed by the players and managers from both teams. At the old-fashioned
> microphone in the diamond, Costner said, "Is this heaven? Yes, it is."[22]
> The White Sox beat the Yankees 9–8, following a walk-off home run in the
> bottom of the 9th inning by Tim Anderson, after the Yankees had scored four
> runs in the top of the inning to take an 8–7 lead.[23]
>
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> A second Field of Dreams game is scheduled for August 11, 2022, with the
> Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs as the participants. The Reds, who won the
> 1919 World Series that was marred by the Black Sox Scandal, will serve as
> the home team for the game.[24]
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> Music
>
> Leonard Bernstein was the first choice to compose the score for the film
> but he was overbooked.[11] At first, James Horner was unsure if he could
> work on the film due to scheduling restrictions until he watched a rough
> cut and was so moved that he accepted the job of scoring it. Robinson had
> created a temp track which was disliked by Universal executives. When the
> announcement of Horner as composer was made, the executives felt more
> positive because they expected a big orchestral score, similar to Horner's
> work for An American Tail. Horner, in contrast, liked the temporary score,
> finding it "quiet and kind of ghostly". He decided to follow the idea of
> the temp track, creating an atmospheric soundtrack which would "focus on
> the emotions".[8] The score was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
> Original Score but lost to the Alan Menken score for The Little
> Mermaid.[25] In addition to Horner's score, portions of several pop songs
> are heard during the film. They are listed in the following order in the
> closing credits:
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>
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> "Crazy", written by Willie Nelson and performed by Beverly D'Angelo
>
> "Daydream", written by John Sebastian and performed by The Lovin' Spoonful
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> "Jessica", written by Dickey Betts and performed by The Allman Brothers
> Band
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> "China Grove", written by Tom Johnston and performed by The Doobie Brothers
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> "Lotus Blossom", written by Billy Strayhorn and performed by Duke Ellington
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> The soundtrack was mastered by Greg Fulginiti.
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> Historical connections
>
> The character played by Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, Archibald
> "Moonlight" Graham, is based on an actual baseball player with the same
> name. His character is largely true to life except for a few factual
> liberties taken for artistic reasons. For instance, the real Graham's lone
> major league game occurred in June 1905,[26] rather than on the final day
> of the 1922 season. The real Graham died in 1965, as opposed to 1972 as the
> film depicts. In the film, Terence Mann interviews a number of people about
> Graham. The DVD special points out that the facts they gave him were taken
> from articles written about the real man.
>
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> Release
>
> Universal scheduled Field of Dreams to open in the U.S. on April 21, 1989.
> The film debuted in just a few theaters and was gradually released to more
> screens so that it would have a spot among the summer blockbusters. It
> ended up playing until December.[8] The film was released in the
> Philippines by Eastern Films on November 1, 1989.[27]
>
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