Tag: Kevin Costner
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10 Details That Make Field of Dreams Feel Like Baseball’s Past
Field of Dreams (1989) does not recreate one single era of baseball. Its Iowa field becomes a meeting place for several of them, from Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 White Sox to Moonlight Graham’s brief major-league career in 1905 and the memories Ray Kinsella carries from playing catch with his father. The setting helps…
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10 Secrets Behind Costner’s Perfect Game in For Love of the Game
The final game in For Love of the Game (1999) has to do something difficult: make Kevin Costner look like a veteran pitcher capable of pulling off one extraordinary afternoon at Yankee Stadium. Sam Raimi could not hide behind quick cuts and distant angles, either. Billy Chapel spends much of the sequence alone on the…