Tulsa World. June 3, Hollywood Reporter. April 23, Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews. April 16, June 25, Total Film. Common Sense Says Baseball crowd pleaser with a supernatural twist. Parents need to know that this story about following your dreams and reconciling relationships could appeal to young teens, older teens, and adults, especially families who like baseball.
Some positive messages about tolerance and believing in yourself go along with a bit of strong language "s--t" and "son of a bitch". Menu Search. In Stock 7. Add To Cart. For clarification contact our support. Score Composers. Recommended Bestselling Piano Music Notes. Write A Review. Write Your Own Review Only registered users can write reviews. Catalog SKU number of the notation is The arrangement code for the composition is Piano.
Minimum required purchase quantity for these notes is 1. When Costner's farming character hears whispering voices telling him to build a baseball diamond on his land with the promise that the ghosts of famous baseball players will inhabit it for games at night leading to a pop culture phenomenon based upon the "If you build it, they will come" line , you can't help but follow the religious parallels between God requesting a cathedral and God instead requesting a baseball diamond in the middle of nowhere.
Baseball here is the religion, and the film takes the opportunity to draw important comparisons between the game and real life philosophical issues that provide for some heartfelt speeches before the story is done. Unlike Costner, composer James Horner had never been a fan of the American pastime. But when he first saw a cut of Field of Dreams , he fell in love with the story and jumped at the assignment despite his lack of knowledge about the sport.
The director had originally used a selection of jazz as a temp score for the film, and the disapproving studio was very supportive of Horner's hiring because they believed that he would inject the spirit of his science fiction and adventure scores into the picture. In fact, Horner defied their expectations and wrote an arguably minimalistic score dominated by electronics, piano, and specialty instruments.
He then employed an orchestra for only the final few minutes of music during the finale sequence. While such moves are made all the time in Hollywood for budgetary reasons, Horner claims to have approached Field of Dreams with this intention of reaching the nostalgic Americana summary only at the end. Interestingly, his claims of wanting to write a "magical Americana" score for Field of Dreams are contradicted by his finished result, a score that has a fairly low amount of magic and very little Americana spirit about it at all.
Both The Natural by Randy Newman and For the Love of the Game by Basil Poledouris better capture baseball's historical place in America's cultural through orchestral and contemporary tones.
Read More For years, the CD album for Field of Dreams was a relative rarity after initially slipping out of print, and Horner collectors and concept enthusiasts clung desperately to their copies, this despite the score's remarkably curious appeal. Little consistency is to be heard from start to finish, the composer introducing the score with a solo horn leading to a broad, base whole note complete with the tingling percussive effects that mirror The Natural. From there, Horner's solo piano performances speak to the atmosphere of the simple life on the farm.
Without warning, he then launches into his light rock "building theme" that occupies two of the cues on the album. These two passages ironically come the closest to addressing the heart of the film's ambition, and the pan pipe-led performance of the theme in "The Library" is the highlight of the album despite owing a substantial debt to Hans Zimmer's Rain Man. Several brooding cues of heavy electronic base and meandering key shifts occupy the middle portions of the score, existing as a mundane cross between lengthy synthetic motifs of The Name of the Rose and the slightly atonal aspects of Vibes.
For "Old Ball Players," Horner launches into another completely unrelated musical genre: authentic big band jazz for the era of the ghosts. A light, eerie synthetic choir fades in and out over solo piano meanderings in the latter half of the score before the orchestra finally makes itself known in "Doc's Memories" and subsequent cues. The final fifteen minutes of Field of Dreams are perhaps its most overrated, attempting to emulate the same sense of weighty importance as Cocoon but failing to achieve the truly genuine feeling of broad, string-based Americana that would manifest itself in later projects such as Deep Impact and Legends of the Fall.
Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics Trailer , Movie , Fantasy. Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
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