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“If you build it, he will come.”
It’s Field of Dreams’ quadranscentennial anniversary this year, and that line continues to be (mis)quoted to this day – just last week I stumbled upon an article about a pastor using it in his sermon, who tweaked it quite nicely to fit his message. I love the line, and hopefully will be able to justify borrowing it for this review.
After being fed the line by that ghostly voice repeatedly, the protagonist of the movie (Kevin Costner playing Ray Kinsella) would have had some mighty planning to do prior to embarking on the crazy task of replacing a few thousand corn stalks with a baseball diamond. In fact, it would have taken some careful planning by the moviemakers to fit those scenes into the picture, prior to investing time and money to actually build it in real life for the sake of 107 minutes of entertainment. The process…
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