However, they’re clear as day in digital editions of the movie. “I thought that was so clever, but in the film print you can’t actually see ,” Robinson said in 2013. Guess what’s on display right behind it? An assortment of tape recorders. ![]() While walking through the streets of Chisholm, Minnesota, Ray spots a campaign poster for Richard Nixon in a storefront window. There’s a Watergate Easter egg in Field of Dreams. More than a decade later Affleck would star in Robinson's The Sum of All Fears on the first day of shooting, he reportedly told Robinson: "Nice working with you again." 12. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were extras in Field of Dreams.ĭamon was 17 years old and Affleck turned 16 during the summer of 1988, when the film shot on location for the scenes in Fenway Park. “We were trapped there for a full day of sweltering retakes, and we never appeared in the final cut.” 11. “My wife and I were part of the audience at the PTA scene,” Kinsella later said. Kinsella and his wife were in the crowd for a scene of a PTA meeting, which was shot at a gymnasium in Farley, Iowa. Kinsella and his wife almost appeared in Field of Dreams. A Universal executive got Costner to read the script anyway, and he decided to do it because he felt it would be akin to It's a Wonderful Life. Kevin Costner was the first actor to come to Robinson's mind to play Ray, but he had just starred in Bull Durham, another baseball movie. Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner face off in Bull Durham (1988). Kevin Costner wasn't initially considered for Field of Dreams because he had just starred in Bull Durham. “I asked, ‘Why would he build a fence?’ and then the corn became the wall.” 9. “In the book, there’s a fence with a door in it that separates the ball field from the corn field, and we had done drawings of walls and fences” Robinson explained in a discussion with sportswriters Stephen C. Here’s another difference between Kinsella’s novel and its Hollywood adaptation. An outfield fence was considered, but never built, for Field of Dreams. The idea was for a Salinger creation to appear in front of his creator and take him to a ballgame. Kinsella was a last name Salinger used in two stories: Richard Kinsella was an annoying classmate of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In the Rye, and Ray Kinsella was a character in the short story A Young Girl in 1941 With No Waist at All. Kinsella insists he didn't just put his own last name as Ray's and call it a day. Studio executives, however, were afraid that bad publicity from Salinger's threats to file a lawsuit would harm them, so the character of Terence Mann was created instead. Kinsella's real original title for his book was The Kidnapping of J.D. Salinger was the author Ray Kinsella tries to kidnap. “It was a wonderful subplot,” Robinson said, “ we couldn’t find room for it.” Another character cut out of Robinson’s screenplay was Richard Kinsella, Ray’s identical twin brother. An elderly Iowan, Scissons claims to be the “oldest living Chicago Cub,” but soon enough, Ray learns he never even suited up for the team. In the Shoeless Joe novel, we’re introduced Eddie “Kid” Scissions, the previous owner of Ray’s farm. A few characters from Shoeless Joe were omitted from the Field of Dreams script. It was apparently his publisher who pushed for Shoeless Joe. Kinsella was ok with it, as one of his own ideas for his book's title was The Dream Field. With trepidation, Robinson called Kinsella to tell him that the movie's name was being changed to Field of Dreams. Audiences said it reminded them of a hobo. ![]() When Field of Dreams was first shown to test audiences, it was using the title Shoeless Joe.
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