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Fun tale, fine cast are 'Natural'
Once upon a time, when men wore hats and
ties and baseball was king, there lived a young
boy named Roy Hobbs who always desired to be
one of those baseball players; in fact he wanted to
be the best baseball player.
His father told him he was a natural, and his
father was right. He could throw better and hit
harder than any other player around. Then, just
before he was about to show the world his
marvelous skills, he was attacked and seriously
wounded by an evil but beautiful witch clothed in
black.
It wasn't until much, much later that the boy,
who'd become a middle-aged knight, attempted
to come back and show the world what he could
do. Only now the world didn't think he could do
it, because he was so old. Baseball belonged to
young men.
But he proved his worth, because he had to.
He had to save the kindly old king whom he call
ed Pop. He battled the evil king who threatened
Pop, overcoming a spell put on him by another
evil beautiful witch. Like all good knights Roy had
the help of a good princess dressed in white who
saved him from the evil witch, and inspired him to
tap his marvelous abilities. And of course, when
all the rigmarole was over, Roy and the good
princess lived happily ever after.
Such is "The Natural," a new film by Barry
Levinson based on the classic novel by Bernard
Malamud. And I'm not exaggerating; it really is a
fairy tale. It's a modern sports fairy tale in the
tradition of "Rocky" and countless films before.
How else can you describe a tale that relies so
heavily on evil women in black and good women
in white? Luck, the supernatural, and a seemingly
magic bat?
"The Natural" is a fantasy film presented in
the grand tradition of great mythic stories and it
works beautifully. Robert Redford is near perfect
in the role of Roy Hobbs, bringing forth the
presence needed to make his part believable.
Kim Bassinger gives the best performance of
her career as the traitorous Memo Paris, and
Robert Duvall brings the controlled malice of
sports writer Max Mercy to understated glory.
Wilford Brimley is congenial and likeable as ever
as Pop, the aging manager of the flailing New
York Knights.
Director Levinson, screenwriters Roger
Towne and Philip Breen and cinematographer
Caleb Deshanel give this film the ultimate mythic
treatment.
Deshanel is a master of color, texture and shot
composition and he makes every frame shine with
the golden luster of yesteryear. Towne and Breen
structure the film with a plot that could only work
in this setting, complete with strikes of lightning
at the key moments.
In their treatment it works without being hokey.
Photo courtesy of Tri-Star Pictures
Robert Redford is near perfect as Roy Hobbs in
"The Natural," a film about the late comeback
of a star baseball player.
They spice the script with many other fantastic
elements that work equally well and then suffuse
it with wonderful dialogue that is both
understated and dramatically appropriate.
Levinson pulls it all together, letting the
mythic elements carry the film. He knows which
devices to use at the appropriate moment: slow
motion, silhouettes, close-ups and just the right
gestures and expressions. It all works and it works
well, from the careful attention to period clothing
and antique trappings that suggest an indefinite
period somewhere around the 1940s, to Randy
Newman's grand rousing score.
“The Natural" is the kind of story we like to
think we've outgrown. It's a wonderful, vital film
about fathers and sons, winning and losing,
honor and corruption, good and evil. It's a
modern myth about the archetypal hero given the
grand treatment it needs. If "The Natural" doesn't
bring out the child in you, nothing will.
Plays at the McDonald on the Eugene Mall.
By Sean Axmaker
Traveling art adorns Aperture
May is a different month tor
the Aperture Gallery, the corner
art spot in the lobby of the EMU.
Usually the area showcases
University student work, juried
by the Cultural Forum. This
month, a traveling show of two
dimensional works from college
unions throughout the North
west is replacing the familiar
Oregon doily
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photography.
The 18-piece exhibit, which
has been traveling from Alaska
to Medford since last Fall, was
juried by judges from the
Association of College Unions
International.
“The show is not really
representative of Northwest
arts," says Carol Ten Eyck,
Cultural Forum visual arts coor
dinator. “We had to hang it like
a 19th-century Louvre show.
There just wasn't enough
space."
Later in May, the Forum will
hang an installation by artist
Carol Westlake in the gallery.
"Carol has been instrumental in
showing people in the Nor
thwest what a camera can do,"
Ten Eyck says.
Aperture Gallery will be open
throughout the summer. It is
open the same hours as the Erb
Memorial Union.
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