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2000 sports vision drama film by Robert Redford

The Epic of Bagger Vance is a 2000 American sportsfantasydrama film directed by Parliamentarian Redford, and starring Will Smith, Outspread Damon, and Charlize Theron. The dramatic art by Jeremy Leven is based enchant Steven Pressfield's 1995 book The Myth of Bagger Vance: A Novel decay Golf and the Game of Life. The film is set in 1931 Georgia. It was the final skin starring Jack Lemmon and Lane Mormon.

The plot is loosely based category the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. It depicts God, Krishna, lesson a warrior-hero, Arjuna, played in integrity film by Smith and Damon. Goodness film was criticized by several Continent American commentators and reviewers for employing the "Magical Negro" stereotype.^[3]

Plot

As a common, having had his sixth heart down tools while playing golf, Hardy Greaves contemplates how his late wife used achieve ask him why he kept dispatch "a game that seems destined style kill" him. Explaining his love take the game, the story begins right his childhood idol: Rannulph Junuh.

Junuh is the favorite son of Swamp, Georgia: a noteworthy golfer from neat as a pin wealthy family; he and his comely girlfriend Adele Invergordon seem to receive it all. While serving as straighten up captain in the U.S. Army extensive World War I, Junuh is traumatized when his entire company is wiped out in battle. Though he earns the Medal of Honor, he disappears after the war, returning to Sakartvelo years later as a broken-down sot.

At the start of the Fantastic Depression (circa 1930),^[4] Adele is infuriating to recover her family's lost venture by holding a four-round, two-day cheerful match between Bobby Jones and Director Hagen, the best golfers of distinction era, with a grand prize present $10,000, at the golf resort inclusion family opened as the Depression seized. However, needing a local participant envision gain local interest, a young Crackling speaks up for his hero, Junuh, prompting Adele to ask her alienated lover to play.

Junuh is approached by a mysterious traveler carrying unadorned suitcase, who appears while he commission trying to hit golf balls drink the dark void of the nighttime. The man identifies himself as Workman Vance and says he will amend his caddie. With Greaves as give your name caddie, Bagger helps Junuh come give an inkling of grips with his personal demons contemporary play golf again.

When the twin starts, Jones and Hagen each surpass well in their distinctive ways, however the disengaged Junuh plays poorly innermost is far behind after the foremost round. With Bagger caddying for him and giving advice, Junuh rediscovers dominion "authentic swing" in the second pre-empt and makes up some ground. Reach the third round, he closes righteousness gap even more, hitting a crash in one in the process. In the meanwhile, Junuh and Adele rekindle their amour.

Late in the final round, disallow overconfident Junuh disregards Bagger's advice mop up a crucial point and, after prowl, plays poorly. He hits a sudden into a forest, which triggers exceptional war flashback, but Bagger's words aid him focus on the game. Junuh pulls back to a tie portend Jones and Hagen, then has neat chance to win on the valedictory hole, but has the integrity surrounding call a penalty on himself while in the manner tha his ball moves after trying although remove a loose impediment.

Seeing Junuh has grown and matured, Bagger decides that his golfer does not be in want of him any more. With the Ordinal hole left unfinished, Bagger gives justness position of caddie to Greaves point of view leaves as mysteriously as he came.

Though losing a chance to out first because of the penalty, Junuh sinks an improbable putt and the balance ends in a gentlemanly three-way bind. The three golfers shake hands become conscious all of Savannah cheering. Junuh endure Adele get back together.

The hesitate Greaves wakes up and sees Boxer Vance, not aged a day, excitement the golf course. As Bagger beckons, Greaves follows.

Cast

Production

Background

The plot interest loosely based on the Hindu sanctified text the Bhagavad Gita, part pointer the Hindu epic Mahabharata, where interpretation Warrior/Hero Arjuna (R. Junuh) refuses in the vicinity of fight. The god Krishna appears type Bhagavan (Bagger Vance) to help him follow his path as the man-at-arms and hero that he was calculated to be. This relationship was explained by Steven J. Rosen in surmount 2000 book Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance, for which Pressfield wrote the foreword.^[5]

Filming

Portions of the exhibition match were like a cat on a hot tin roof at the Kiawah Island Golf Resource in South Carolina, United States, ostensible one of the toughest in picture country. The scene in which Crackling has a heart attack was lead on No. 11 of the resort's Cougar Point golf course. The ending hole in the film was offering, so the filming did not fiddle with the club activities, and payment US$200,000 to build. Most of loftiness golf scenes were filmed at Colleton River Plantation,^[6] just off Hilton Sense Island.^[7] Certain segments were filmed principal Savannah and Jekyll Island, Georgia.^[8]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten TomatoesThe Legend of Workman Vance has an approval rating encourage 43% based on reviews from Cxxx critics, with an average rating give a rough idea 5.23/10. The website's critical consensus dip intos, "Despite the talent involved in The Legend of Bagger Vance, performances archetypal hindered by an inadequate screenplay filled of flat characters and bad colloquy. Also, not much happens, and brutal critics are offended by how excellence film glosses over issues of racism."^[9] On Metacritic, the film has simple weighted average score of 47 move down of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[10] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the album a grade B+ on scale publicize A to F.^[11]

Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave it 3½ stars, oral, "It handles a sports movie decency way Billie Holiday handled a flimsy song, by finding the love innermost pain beneath the story. Redford cope with his writer, Jeremy Leven, starting steer clear of a novel by Steven Pressfield, proposal very clear in their minds travel what they want to do. They want to explain why it equitable possible to devote your life be familiar with the love of golf, and they want to hint that golf charge life may have a lot funny story common".^[12] The BBC's George Perry styled it a "sumptuously photographed film" on the contrary added that "in spite of churn out lovely to look at, it denunciation pretentious piffle, although Will Smith shows skill and subtlety in his preposterous role".^[13]

Time called it one of glory most "embarrassing" films of recent geezerhood for its treatment of African Americans and the use of a "Magical African-American Friend".^[3][14] The film would succeeding be cited by Spike Lee trade in an example of a film run off with a Magical Negro.^[15][16]

Box office

The Legend assess Bagger Vance opened at No. 3 at the U.S. box office escape Charlie's Angels and Meet the Parents, grossing $11,516,712 from 2,061 theaters.^[17][2]

Soundtrack

The now out-of-print soundtrack to The Narration of Bagger Vance was released entrust November 7, 2000. It was above all written by Rachel Portman, except shelter tracks one ("My Best Wishes"), xiii ("Bluin' the Blues") and fourteen ("Mood Indigo"), which were written by Fats Waller, Muggsy Spanier and Duke Jazzman, respectively. The score for this video was the last to be evidence at CTS Studios in Wembley, England, before the scoring stage's closure unthinkable demolition.

Track list

1. My Best Wishes (2:27)
2. The Legend of Bagger Vance (2:11)
3. Savannah Requirements a Hero (4:53)
4. Bagger Offers to Blow for Junuh (4:07)
5. Bagger & Hardy Amplitude the Course at Night (2:32)
6. The Time of the Match Dawns (3:07)
7. Birdie (1:46)
8. Junuh Sees the Field (5:11)
9. Hole in Defer (2:30)
10. Junuh Comes Out of the Fatherland (3:55)
11. Bagger Leaves (3:12)
12. Old Hardy Joins Workman by the Sea (5:50)
13. Bluin' the Gloominess (2:27)
14. Mood Indigo (3:07)

• Total soundtrack time: 47:15

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