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www.toxicuniverse.com - : Movie watchers and baseball fans who like myths and fables will love The Natural, director Barry Levinson's adaptation of Bernard Malamud's metaphorical novel. It's about a middle-aged baseball talent who arises from nowhere to create a legendary finish to a storybook pennant race. The film tells a simplistic story of good and evil, painted in blacks and whites to make sure the audience doesn't miss the blatant symbolism. more...
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www.filmthreat.com - : John Tunis wrote these great epic baseball novels for kids starring Roy Tucker as The Kid From Tomkinsville about a young country boy who was destined to be the greatest pitcher of all time. When he hurts his arm, he is forced to learn how to hit and become a corn-fed Babe Ruth. Bernard Malamud probably dug those books, but he wasn't writing for kids or romantics. He was concerned with sin, gamblers, sex, and betrayal. He created Roy Hobbs and promptly shot him in the gut. I wonder what the 69-year-old Malamud thought of the Disney movie Barry Levinson turned his novel into -- maybe it contributed to his death a couple years later. It's not a bad Disney movie per se, it's just not what Malamud had in mind. He was one of those glass is half empty sort of guys. more...
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