Name: Melanie
Subject: The Natural
-- Feb 25, 2009 at 9:08PM
Wow. I'm surprised you didn't hurt yourself coming up with this ridiculous and asinine analysis.
Name: Jerry
Subject: The Natural
-- Jan 25, 2008 at 3:43PM
Mr. Dye's analysis of the Natural is, I believe, a bit coo-coo, really. Maybe Freudian is more fitting. Dye draws false correlations between baseball bats and penises, after all. Wow. Imaginative, I suppose.
Name: Pete
Subject: natural
-- Jun 7, 2007 at 9:33PM
I saw the bat as a passing on of youth, sports belongs to the young. And also, the finale, where he faces the young pitcher, it's him facing down himself, and winning.
Name: Tom
Subject: Opinion
-- Jan 18, 2006 at 12:08PM
Film is all about interpretation, Some of you don't know that, so i'll explain. A director can think he's achieved a certain meaning of a film, but an audience may not see it that same way. Leave this review alone. If this is how this particular audience member has read the film, then you can't have a go at him. whatever happened to freedom of speech
Name: arlene
Subject: the natural
-- Oct 16, 2005 at 5:39PM
who played the girl in the natural not glenn close the other one
Name: Cindy
Subject: movie analysis
-- Sep 19, 2004 at 9:00AM
ALL THINGS of and in the world and of life can only be explained and understood by the holy Spirit of God, it's as simple as that!Great movie ,shows mankind/the thruth issues!!Robert Redford is a great actor!
Name: Neal
Subject: Picture
-- Dec 10, 2003 at 3:38AM
Hi,
I am looking for a picture of Redford getting the bat from Bobby at the end of the movie. Does anyone khave a copy they can send me or a site to check it out please.
Thanks!
Neal
Name: Rex
Subject: the young natural
-- Mar 23, 2003 at 11:38AM
i'd like to bang th eguy who plays the young robert redford in the ass , and thats with no lube!!!
Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: tha Film
-- Dec 31, 2002 at 12:16PM
I assume you mean pay to download a licensed digital version of the movie from the studio.
There are pay-per-view Internet services out there that carry movies (CinemaNow is one), but I'd be surprised to find them carrying an older movie like The Natural. Give it a few years. Or rent the DVD.
Name: Allan
Subject: tha Film
-- Dec 31, 2002 at 12:07PM
Does somebody know where I can download the movie `The Natural`
please send me a email if know a site???
Name: Chris
Subject: I'll walk this at bat...
-- Dec 24, 2002 at 12:46PM
It's refreshing to see the different analyses of this great movie. It just goes to show you how effective a film is in its ability to evoke such interpretations from the masses. Thank you.
Name: RS
Subject: strike 3... your out!!
-- Dec 22, 2002 at 4:22AM
sounds to me like you're just a woman hating, computer geek, virgin who needs to get laid... soon!
Name: Rob
Subject: Stupid drivel
-- Oct 3, 2002 at 6:11PM
This is the stupidest drivel I've ever heard about one of the best baseball movies ever. You people should just leave well enough alone and focus your pathetic obsession with turning everything into a Freudian sex allegory on other things. What a pathetic excuse for analysis of a brilliant story.
It's a morality tale, simple enough. K?
Name: Pmc
Subject: Guy Movie of the Week: The Natural
-- Aug 30, 2002 at 2:45PM
It's really more biblical - RR is playing Jesus: who else waited 30 years to do something? who else bleed from the wound that pierced his side?
"The Judge" is a stand-in for Satan, and offers RR/Jesus the world. (Or perhaps a mere money-changer is the temple of baseball)
Glenn Close is Mary Magdalene.
The lightning motif is the holy spirt. (the tree the bat comes from; the shoulder patch; lightning when he blows the cover off the ball; the shattered stadium lights)
Max Mercy is Judas.
You could also say its Arthurian:
RR the "once and future" best player
Glenn Close - a clever inversion of the Morgan La Fay legend - the illegitmate son turns out to be a good influence
The Knights - obvious name
The Bat - excalibur
Anyways, isn't that a great moment when the batball selects the bat he made himself. Imagine what would be running through a young kid's head at a moment like that.
Name: Jeff
Subject: re: Dye's review
-- Jun 6, 2002 at 5:06PM
Dye's review was absoluteley hilarious, a right-on-target zinger taking a well-deserved shot at those who see everything in terms of sex . . . sometimes the bat is just a bat.
Name: The Editors Respond
Subject: Re: Missed Boat!!!
-- Dec 27, 2001 at 1:29PM
Dave --
"Re-makes of books" are referred to as adaptations in English.
Name: Dave
Subject: Missed Boat!!!
-- Dec 27, 2001 at 12:10PM
You missed the point. Do some research on the Natural. It's a re-make of a book. Hero, Struggle, Overcoming obstacles....Nothing more.
Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: What the . . .?
-- Dec 20, 2001 at 12:29PM
I know geometry ... Try me!
Name: Luke
Subject: What the . . .?
-- Dec 20, 2001 at 12:17PM
This is the most ridiculous review I have ever read. I don't even know where to begin. Your theory is laughable, and you obviously have missed the entire point of this movie. Trying to convince you otherwise would be like trying to teach a monkey geometry.
Name: Andrew
Subject: You moron
-- Oct 15, 2001 at 5:22PM
You really have no idea what this movie is about. Do some research into Greek archetypes and the journey of the hero, you may be able to realize what the movie really is.
Name: CB
Subject: Try again
-- Sep 20, 2001 at 2:48AM
the broken bat is symbolism for gettin out of the slump, it has nothing to do w/ his penis u shmo. obviously u've never played a sport or else u'd know about how much a bat becomes a part of u, and when u lose it, u lose part of the game...
Name: Kerry Douglas Dye Responds
Subject: Re: Try again
-- Jan 2, 2001 at 9:11PM
So in the Third Milennium, Freud is outre but Jung is cutting edge?
Thanks. I'll update my Bartlett's.
Name: Jersey Kaslaw
Subject: Try again
-- Jan 2, 2001 at 8:21PM
10 years ago your review would have been impressive for its use of anlysis. Unfortunately, psychoanlysis is now deader than Elvis after the discovery of Freud's letters to Fleiss that show how he suppressed his seduction theory and "invented" the Oedipus complex. Since Freud's theory of the Oedipal complex is part of the foundation of analysis his theories have fallen like a house of cards. Your comments are laughable. You have completely missed the point of this beautiful movie. This movie is about mythology, magic, fate and good against evil. Leave your intellectually lazy comments in the 1930's where they belong.
Name: bernard malamud
Subject: thats nice, but
-- Oct 23, 2000 at 11:24PM
have you ever tried reading the book?
Name: maverick
Subject: unbelievabe review
-- Oct 4, 2000 at 11:18PM
You have been swamped by Freudian theory - broken bat doesn't relate to broken penis. If you have ever played a serious sport you will know that losing your favourite bat is not what puts a dampner on the old digerido. A bat sucessfully used becomes part of you - losing it and you lose a familiar and faithful friend.
Otherwise a great review.
Name: bud janney
Subject: Unbelievable review
-- Sep 10, 2000 at 1:14PM
get your hand out of your pants and grow up!
Name: mrg
Subject: Understanding
-- Aug 4, 2000 at 7:17PM
The Natural starring Robert Redford is a unique blend of Americian culture and old fashion story telling. It takes an ordinary fairy tail and translates it into a life that many of us can relate to....one filled with unforseeable roadblocks.
Name: Byorn
Subject: Pictures
-- May 22, 2000 at 9:41PM
why are there no pictures of the movie other than the cover?
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