"The Natural" could have been a decent movie. In case we miss the point, Redford is consistently backlit to turn his golden hair into a saintly halo. The people in his life - baseball players, mistresses, gamblers, crooks, sportswriters - seem grateful to share the frame with him. Redford has been placed so firmly in the foreground that the prime consideration is to show him in a noble light. But I guess that doesn't matter, because "The Natural" gives every sign of a story that's been seriously meddled with.
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If the bleeding was a false alarm, then everything else in the movie was false, too. Either he hits the homer and then dies, or his bleeding was just a false alarm. In the epilogue, Roy plays catch with Iris and their son - a son who has not been allowed a single onscreen word - and a woman whose role has been to sit in the stands, wreathed in ethereal light, and inspire him.Ĭome on, give us a break.
Roy swats a homer that hits the lights, and they all explode into fireworks, showering fiery stars upon him as he makes the rounds. It's a pretty badly bleeding stomach when it bleeds right through the skin. A stain of blood spreads on his baseball shirt. He has been having some trouble with his stomach. The fact that he has not already figured this out is incredible. Can his childhood sweetheart, Iris Gaines ( Glenn Close), snap him out of it? She sends him a note revealing that her child is his son. It's the last out of the last inning of the crucial play-off game, and everything depends on him. Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a middle-aged ballplayer making his comeback. Why didn't they make a baseball picture? Why did "The Natural" have to be turned into idolatry on behalf of Robert Redford? Why did a perfectly good story, filled with interesting people, have to be made into one man's ascension to the godlike, especially when no effort is made to give that ascension meaning? And were the most important people in the god-man's life kept mostly offscreen so they wouldn't upstage him?
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