Word: redfords
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...film describes the career of a promising young baseball player in the early 1920s whose glorious future is seemingly shattered in a brutal event. The player, Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) returns to baseball 16 years later to play for the last place, bumbling New York Knights. The story is one of Hobbs' spectacular comeback, his momentary rise, agonizing crash, and heroic reemergence...
...figures that influence Hobbs' quest. There is his grumpy yet loveable coach, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), whom the audience first encounters in the Knights' dugout patiently watching his clumsy ball players and screaming about the rusty water from the water fountain. Pop Fisher needs a break, and when Robert Redford saunters into the pit, reminiscent of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the audience feels a thrill of excitement at the predictable future of the Knights...
...Nunn giving me a mesmerizing reading of T.S. Eliot's 'Grizabella, the Glamour Cat'; Paul Newman letting me take a rare close look at his souped-up Volkswagen; South African Playwright Athol Fugard sitting in the Algonquin Hotel lobby and analyzing the tragedy of apartheid; Robert Redford asking for my opinions on President Reagan, the press and living in New York City before launching into a discussion of directing in Hollywood...
...with your boots on. Or your gloves, depending on the profession. It's the sort of tradition that inspires cultural monoliths like the movies Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, in a different sense, Easy Rider. In Butch Cassidy they really did screw up--Paul Newman and Robert Redford should have known not to rob that bank in the end. But they didn't really have a choice. The alternative was to loll around some more in that town in Bolivia and argue about who was sleeping with Katharine Ross. In the face of that, a screw...
...what happened to him. The oracle said he would sleep with his mother and kill his father, so he did what any sensible person would do. He left town. Then he pushed that limit, took those risks, to become king. And Fate tripped him up. Just like Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff. But not just like Macbeth, the ultimate Elizabethan screw-up. Anybody who's taken a high school Shakespeare class knows that Macbeth brought on his own tragedy. True, Lady Macbeth was the impetus for that saying...