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'Field of Dreams' takes a magical journey
By Ken Nolan
Emerald Contributor
Kevin Costner has called his
new film Held of Dreams the
I’lBOs equivalent of It's a Won
ilrrful Lift• For that to In' true.
Costner would have to be as dy
namic an actor as Jimmy Stew
art. and the film would have to
be good enough to touch the
hearts of many generations to
come Well. Costner is no Jim
mv Stewart, and field of
l)rrams is no It's a Wonderful
Life but it sure comes c lose
Kay kinsella (Costner) is a
novice Iowa farmer who. for
the first time in his life, does
something "totally illogical "
lie plows under several acres ol
_Movie Review_
valuable corn to build a base
ball field on the advice of a
faceless. mysterious voice
Without giving away any more
of till1 plot (II someone tries to
tell you the plot, just plug your
ears and run away), let's just
say this is the point in the1 film
where Imlievabilily ends and
magic lake’s over
l.ike a fairy tale which
sweeps thc> audience along
from one miraculous event to
another, the events whir h take
place in lieltl of Dreams are en
tirely unbelievable, ine redible.
the kind of stuff that c ould nev
er happen Hut the beauty ol
the film is that it asks the ques
tion "What it these things
could happen7" And. sitting m
the audience, enraptured, one
c annot help muttering the very
same question to oneself.
Whether the events of the film
are likely to happen or not. the
film t.ikes the audicnc e on a
journey and introduces some ol
the freshest c haracters to arrive
on the screen in a long w hile
The- first of these characters
is lames Karl Jones, w ho por
tray s an aging former liitiOs ae
livist and Pulitzer Prize winner
whose only wish is to disap
pear from the public: scene for
ever This is Jones' best perfor
mane e in years, and he make:
Ins charac ter ric h and lively
bringing a down-to-earth elo
quence to the’ screen that is im
possible to dislike. Costner and
|ones play off c-ac h other excel
lently. their interaction <i
splash of c old water on many d
weary moviegoer's fat e
Costner himself plays a
childlike, eternally likable guy.
and does a good job. Although
he is the "main" character, he
plays such a strait laced guy
that he is rarely the focus of the
audience's attention. Costner is
inure of the "leading man in
this film, tying all the charai
ters together but remaining the
least-memorable
There are some hidden gems
in this film in the supporting
roles. Kay l.iotta. who plays
legendary Black Sox playei
“Shoeless" |oe lackson. is ut
terly convim mg as this long
dead ball player l.iotta. who
has starred in the minor but ac
claimed films Dominit: and Eu
Hone and Samolhinn U ild, ha?
the uncanny ability to look no!
at a movie camera but seeming
ly right into tin; audience. Hit
short times on screen are elec
trifying and fill the film will
< tackling energy.
I.ike Hurt I .ancestor's smal
cameo, the other minor charac
ters in this film turn out to la
the most memorable This it
due in whole to the film's su
perb screenplay, in which even
the bit parts have something
amusing to say.
Some moviegoers may claim
not to believe the premise of
the film This should not even
f>e on issue as it defeats the
whole purpose of seeing a mov
ie in the first place Hut believe
the premise or not. the film is
an undeniably sweeping and
heartwarming tale, the first
film since It's a Wonderful Life
that captures the audience in
its magic and never lets them
go
The film is emotionally
charged, like nothing of its
kind brought to the screen in
years As one character says in
the movie, this is a film where
"dreams come true." These
dreams come true not only for
the characters but for the audi
ence members as well. It turns
viewers into giggling children
for two hours, and reminds all
what the magic of Hollywood
can really create.
Non
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about intersection, of the Hast
and West, of the beautiful and
grotesque, of the silent and the
sounded.”
At the heart of Noli lies some
accidental encounter through
which the workings of fate are
revealed One of the characters
is often not what he seems to be
perhaps a ghost or a person
fallen from high estate.
In "Sotoba Komachi.” a
young poet who visits the city
park to find inspiration meets
an am lent woman who will
never die. As they dance, she
brings him a vision of the beau
ty of her youth, a vision so pro
found that the poet dies in ac
knowledging it
Mishima's use of original
Noli dramas varies in his plays.
Sometimes he uses only gener
al Noli themes, and other times
his plays parallel the originals
closely. “The Damask Drum”
is essentially the re-creation of
an ancient Noli drama in a
modern setting.
for example, the old man of
the original “Damask Drum”
who sweeps a palace garden
Immomes in the modern version
a janitor who sweeps a law of
fice in downtown Tokyo. Me
falls in love not with a prin
cess. but with the client of a
fashionable women's clothing
designer across the way.
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In both versions, the man be
lieves that beating a drum will
win him the favor of his belov
ed, but the drum is inaudible
because it is made of damask, a
light fabric. And in both ver
sions. unrequited love drives
the janitor to suicide.
"In 'The Damask Drum.' the
janitor's ideal love for the
woman bridges a divided world
of good faith and bad faith,"
Schtnor said. "She sends deceit
and death, hut his love inter
sects life and death, lie is a
revenant — one who returns, a
ghost, a pilgrim and his love
is the magical intersection be
tween both worlds."
Barbara Sellers, a doctoral
degree candidate in theater
arts, is the movement coach.
Krik Ireland, a senior in theater
arts, designed the set.
Performances of the two Noh
plays are scheduled for 8 p.m.
May 24 to 27 and |une 1 to 3 in
Arena Theatre.
Tickets are $2.50 for students
and seniors and $;t.50 for the
general public, and are avail
able at the University Theatre
Ihix office in the lobby of Y'il
lard Hall’s Robinson Theatre
The box office is open from
12:30 to 4 p.m Monday
through Saturday, and from
0:30 to 8:15 p.m on perfor
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