Robert Redford in the Natural - Batting Practice
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2008
- In this scene, Roy is given a chance to see what he can do with the bat at the plate. Later on, he ends up wrecking every single pitch thrown at him.
DISCLAIMER: This video is not meant to discredit those filmmakers involved in The Natural. This is a simple posting of a scene for casual enjoyment, not to take anyone's work away. - Фільми й анімація
Wilford Brimley and Richard Farnsworth - two of the greatest character actors in our era.
Exactly what I came here to say. They're far better actors than even Redford in my opinion.
Two of the greatest character actors of any era.
This scene is based on real-life. Ted Williams (who Redford admires and said he modeled himself after for his swing) had returned to Fenway Park from the Korean War after missing two seasons. While there, they asked him to take a few swings. Two years since he played in the majors, he stepped up to the plate and launched 9 consecutive home runs.
Had he not taken time out of the prime of his career to serve his country, Ted Williams might just hold almost every hitting record in baseball.
Yeah but the pitcher was 10 years old
The scene where he hits the ball at the sportswriter was also patterned after Williams. A fan in spring training was talking smack about William's wife. Williams told the catcher to pitch him inside and when he was done, he would take a strike out in return. Williams lined screaming line drive after screaming line drive at the fan had to dive out of the way of. The fan left and Williams took his strike out.
Ted Williams was my father's boy-hood idol. So much so that my pops joined the Air Force and went on to fly jets (Vietnam). Wasn't quite as good at baseball though. LOL!
@Fred Wills You’re making this about yourself?! Lol.
This movie really captures all of the sounds and aura of baseball. Everything from the crack of the bat to the sound of the cleats, it's just so well done.
bLaCjAcK Daniels including the brown drinking water lol
I'm not even a baseball fan but this film along with Bull Durham are right of the top of my top 5 of all time sports movies. Probably because they aren't really sports films. The game is important in them but its the characters that make them work so well.
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Don’t forget War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo where it was filmed!
Deserved an Oscar for "best use of echo in a movie scene".
Rest in Peace, Mr. Richard Farnsworth .
The ol Grey Fox. You're missed deeply.
The ball boy aspect was pure gold ..
If you haven't seen this movie, you owe it to yourself to watch it. Even if your not a giant Baseball fan, take the time and watch.
It is a Gem...💎👍
It is a perfectly-constructed movie!
@@nolaanderson8770 Absolutely 👍
Maybe best baseball film of all time, along with field of dreams. Rates as one of the best sports movies of any sport as well.
"Well I sort of got sidetracked". Such simple profound truth.
And Pop doesn't even question it.
Chris Weidner Dude I Love this comment and that You picked up on and highlighted such a great subtle part. The whole movie, he is such an alpha..only says what's necessary..no wasted words
He may not question it, but he does not necessarily buy it, either.
In high school we studied this movie as part of Latin class - on the concept of heroes. This movie has amazing symbology and archetypes. I always think fondly of Roy Hobbs!
And this Movie was Never a strike out!
One of my favorite lines from Roy to Iris ~ "A father makes all the difference."
Redford being older helped, since there was more character in his face from life than about ten years earlier.
Numinous20111 well the character is supposed to be ridiculously old, like 45
i love the echo in the stadium of the bat. this is my favorite scene in the movie besides the part where he smashed the clock at wrigley.
“Try this one Grandpa” Love it!
This is great!!! Two straight home runs.....then the whole "Try this one Grandpa"....and he hits one even further!!!! Classic!!
War Memorial Stadium... The Old Rockpile. Used to watch the Bisons back when that whole stadium was decked out to look exactly like it would have been for the period. The ads on the walls, the artwork around the stadium... they made that old girl look like she took a trip back in time. I'll never forget it. Couldn't have picked a better park to film.
I love how they use the sound here to demonstrate how solidly and how far he hits the ball.
Redford, in that era preformed in movies that changed Hollywood forever. Between Newman and Redford they gave way for other actors to become greats.
My favorite baseball movie. Redford was perfectly cast in this.
And its one of the very best sports movies ever.
garrison968 knock the cover off the ball.
+garrison968 It's the best sports movie ever.
It was a very nice movie and Redford is a very good actor, but his swing would get you a .195 avg. in a 16 year old Pony Ball league.
And yet at the time, when baseball GMs and managers were asked at the time of the movie... a number stated they really liked Redford's swing, saying that it was "natural"... and as someone whom played Pony League baseball and excelled at every other sport as well, I can say Redford's swing passes the "eye test"... there's power in his swing.
I always wanted him in Bridges of Madison county
Wilford Brimley & Richard Farnsworth - two of Hollywood's greatest.
The most underrated part of this scene is the echo of the bat hitting the ball and the ball crashing into the stands! No cheering fans, just the sound of POWER!
I love how after that first shot Hobbs hits into the seats, Red jerks his head back to look at Pop to make sure he's watching the same thing he is. lol, they're so thirsty for a talented player, someone to help them win games!
The scene was filmed in War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo. It has since been torn down.
Never new that. I played a college football game there 40 years ago. I remember the visitors locker room had no heat and the ceilings were low almost as if you had to lower your head to move around. I also remember the beating we took from Canisius that day.
of course it has. we’re great at tearing things down. there’s more money in it. most european teams play in stadiums that are decades sometimes a century old and have been modernized like we did here with Soldier Field.
It’s a crying shame that we have lost all those beautiful stadiums. I remember hitting “Seal Stadium “ in San Francisco when I was a kid, before it became “WhiteFront” a department store. Then it became a Auto Mall, before it finally became a mall with a Safeway grocery store as a anchor. Some call it progress. I call it greed & shortsightedness. Just “my two cents”.
@@paulc7742 I had a few friends that went to Canisius. One played football there. I was visiting a friend and wearing my Drexel hat. The lady at the desk said, “There’s a young man at my church that goes there.” Names him. “Shoot, I play basketball with him.” Small world.
There was an SI writer who wrote about “The Rockpile” (paraphrasing) “Whatever war its name was attributed to was probably fought within its confines.” Think that guy’s name was Brock Yates.
It reminds me of the time I invited my boyfriend to go with me to a cookout of this retired college professor. About 15 people were invited and I knew there would be no idiots there. My boyfriend barely got out of high school and drives a FedEx truck. A couple of people at the cookout knew of him but had never met him. What no one knew was that he has rather acute dyslexia and has educated himself through audio books and educational TV programs. And yes, he is a very nice guy and has worked to become very much educated. At the cookout he carried on conversations on a number of subjects. I had a moment where I just sat back and watched him converse with the a couple of people, including the host... my own Roy Hobbs hitting home runs.
Heather Watson that is a great story. Seriously. The smartest people I know are autodidacts.
Yes a d that's a good thing
nice
Being able to see the finer qualities in people is a gift. You sound like a wonderful person and I wish you both well.
He's a keeper
Wilford Brimley was only 49 when this was filmed. He was also less than 2 years older than Robert Redford, yet he looks old enough to be his dad.
What?????
The smile on the bat boy's face, priceless :)
Nice old fadhioned movie, the kind that could never get made today. It seems that this one has become more embraced with the passage of time. Redford starred in another sports movie about Olympic skiing called Downhill Racer much earlier in his career, in 1969.
Plenty of great baseball movies out there, but this is one of the very best ever.
I’m afraid that I’m incurably partial to “Major League” myself. It shows the dynamic of an entire baseball team better precisely by not focusing on any single character. Jake Taylor, Rick Vaughn, Willy Mays Hayes, Pedro Cerrano, Roger Dorn, Eddie Harris, Lou Brown. They all have distinct character arcs, and they all have to come together to pull it out in the end.
And there’s the fact that it’s about my hometown baseball team, and they always win in the end.
Plus there’s the delight of hating on the team’s owner, the one and only Rachel Phelps, and being left rolling helplessly on the floor by every word that leaves the lips of Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker. Need I say more?).
@@FS2K4Pilot, Major League is a very funny movie in its own right but not among the cinematic greats, imho.
I love it, but feel that The Natural, Field of Dreams and Bull Durham are better ‘films’.
Mr. Baseball is another fun one that I also greatly enjoy. It gives a good look into the Japanese game and how disciplined and fundamentally sound/sportsmanlike the Japanese players are.
Now that Ohtani is doing the seemingly unthinkable, it warrants another view from anyone who hasn’t seen it recently.
(And yes, Uecker was perfect in the movie.)
"Hoosiers" is my all time favorite sports film. "The Natural" is number two, but it's my favorite baseball film.
I know someone that was an extra sitting in the stands there. He said it was fun seeing the old stadium, the players and the stars of the movie.
One of the great F U moments in film. RIP Wil Brimley and Dick Farnsworth. Bob Redford made a great film. Bobby Duvall and Glenjamin Close were also good.
An excellent movie in many ways. Love the scene where he hits the lights.
Best Baseball movie ever - no contest. Just as Jeremiah Johnson is the best Mountaineer movie - that snowy fishing scene alone - never see that again.
I love how... "well, I sorta got sidetracked" was basically the end of the conversation.. Different time, when people didn't go prying into your business, if you didn't want them to..
one of the greatest baseball flicks of all time
A river runs through it for baseball. Beautiful. Robert Redford acting is so beautiful, so subtle. He passed this along to Brad Pitt I believe during Spy Games.
I think its due to the Arthurian legend, Roy is the Knight Errant, on a mission to set things right. That is what knights were supposed to do, always to do what is right and honest. Pop is honest, tough but he does things the right way, and Hobbs sees that, and understands the dynamics of why they want to take the club away from Pop. Baseball at least in this fantasy was pure and clean and was being corrupted by the likes of the judge and gambler and avaricious woman. Roy stopped them.
Im an aussie that knows nothing about baseball but I love watching this film
A great movie never gets old. One of the top 4 baseball movies of all time. Field Of Dreams, Bull Durham, and Pride Of The Yankees. Honorable mentions to The Sandlot, Major League, For The Love Of The Game, and The Bad News Bears. And, of all these films, The Natural and Field Of Dreams were the most mystical. I'm 66, and when I was a kid, there was a mysticism about baseball. You walked from the concourse, entered the sun light, and saw the vast green perfect field that you never saw in the city.
Theo Lamp - I'm 60, and there's still a mysticism about the game. We weathered the Steroid Era, and we keep coming back.
No doubt, you played. I wasn't a smart player, never made my high school team, but I was hooked long before.
I always say, "Baseball is a humbling game, " but when it's well-played, it's a thing of beauty.
+Spencer Grant - I only played 1 year in Little League, and our HS didn't have a Baseball Team. But with a few friends, we were always on the sandlots playing ball. We started a 9 AM in the summer, came home quick to get dinner (Only because we had to), and went back out 'til sunset. I couldn't hit and couldn't field, but, I was actually a pretty decent pitcher (that was all that was left to me). Also, I'm from Philly and went through 1964. But,I never lost my love of the game and my hometown team. And yes, baseball can be beautiful. On any given night, you may see something you've never seen before. I think we share the love of the game. All the best, Ted
I feel like Bull Durham is grossly overrated. Too much unimportant stuff about Romance, not enough stuff about baseball.
@@soarinskies1105 Agreed .... the "Natural" is the best. I've been around the game my entire life. I'm 60 now and have been coaching LL since I was in my mid 20's. Can do without MLB these days.
Speaking of Field of Dreams, Thursday, August 11, 2022 is the Field of Dreams game between the Reds and the Cubs.
Gotta love the echo of the ball hitting the seat in the empty stadium
Every word and gesture is perfect.
For those of you who don't know the character Roy Hobbs is loosely based on Ted Williams, he was a left handed batter and so is Redford, also his number was #9 and so is Redford. Redford's favorite player was Ted Williams and believe me he was a NATURAL!!
Yet Ted was not a natural lefty at the plate. He was a righty who batted left for the advantages it gives to hitters.
Pretty good fighter pilot too!
hobbs is based on eddie waitkus and shoeless joe jackson
In what Robert Redford has said was a nod to Ted Williams, Hobbs wore No. 9 for the Knights in the movie. Hobbs wore No. 45 in the book.
Ted Williams what a fucking legend
Love it when he knocks out the clock face in center field!
Nothing else in the world makes that SWEET sound of a bat hitting a baseball just right! Think Spring!
I saw this movie at the theater nearly 40 years ago. That might as well be a world away.
I am not a big baseball fan but there is something about the crack of the bat when a big league power hitting hits solid.
Yup, but a modern metal bat goes tink! (or dink!). I pray those are never allowed in the big leagues.
Elthenar for me it's Cricket but I know exactly what you mean
Same problem as soccer, not enough of it. Baseball needs to pitchers moved further back, soccer needs the penalty spot moved back (until it's a true 50/50 chance), and offside rules changed.
Golf has moved all the tees back to make up for the better atheletes and equipment, no excuse for other sports not to.
@@markmark5269 totally dont agree with that. Baseball is almost perfectly balanced in many ways but hitting and pitching go through cycles but give them time and they will ruin baseball one day. Especially with ideas like this that are said out of the blue with no context to what the post you are referring too.
Whenever I encounter people that don't give me a chance to do something that I know I can do better than those already established, I always remember this scene!
"Right....you're a low ball hitter."
Sidetracked for a while....indeed. Evidently Redford also had a talent for writing hilarious reviews of local hotels in different filming locations detailing his sentiments regarding the professionalism of the staff and quality of the accommodations 😉
one of the best baseball movies that ever came out :-)
Roy Hobbs: "I wouldn't bet against me".
TwistedKingdom74 you're missing the point, kid. I already have.
As someone who's also 'sorta got sidetracked', I know it's "better late than never."
Great film, great novel---great piece of work
One of my favorite baseball movies.
Them swings were so sweet it gave Wilford the beetus
One of my favorite movies EVER!
I have never considered Robert Redford a great actor, but his movies are almost always great.
Glad you’re not casing movies.
@@canamrider07 He's saying that RR is almost always in great movies which he's paying him a compliment. Redford is a very good actor but he doesn't have the range of someone like DeNiro or Pacino but he's better than most.
@@joemckim1183 Sounds like something a Cardinal fan would say.
Three Days of the Condor, Electric Horseman and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.
'The Last Castle' period.
Such a great movie. I watch it every time it's on tv. Redford was at his best in this movie.
I think Redford was WAY better in "3 Days of the Condor" and "The Sting"
That sound of the bat hitting the ball. It never gets old. Not in this movie, not in any ballpark I've ever been in.
I absolutely loved this movie. Redford actually played decent college baseball from what I've heard.
@LJSJIUJITSU…Thats correct he also was thrown out of college for being drunk . He used to warm up Pancho Gonzalez hitting him tennis balls .
My favorite part of the movie!!!! Thanks for sharing!
Redford modeled himself after Ted Williams for the movie. He's quoted as saying it was a tribute of sorts to Ted. Even wore #9.
Brimely appeared with Redford four years earlier in Brubaker, another great film.
I enjoy watching Redford in this movie with guys like Wilford Brimley, who is still alive and still acting, who I read was once a rodeo rider and a stuntman, lives in Utah and is a Mormon, and Richard Farnsworth, who was a stuntman once in movies like Gone With the Wind and The Ten Commandments, but who sadly killed himself in 2000 because he had bone cancer.
Oh how I love Baseball so!!
The low whistle after the first jack is perfectly placed!
Two things:
1) Do you prefer the theatrical cut or the Director’s cut?
2) Recommend you ignore the Book vs. Movie debate. Instead, focus on this film being a fun baseball movie with the core value being about fathers and sons and the love between them. Debate how great talent can be derailed by human frailties.
One of my go too rainy Sunday afternoon movies ....👍👍
One of the greatest films ever... Definitely a top 5 baseball movie
"I sorta got sidetracked" Yep, that's about right :)
1 of my alltime favorite sports movies
"Try this one grandpa." good shit
IIRC, this scene was filmed in War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, New York. It was slated for demolition and was demolished after this movie was finished.
Love this movie!
Wow. what talent he has!
Probably my favorite scene in the movie
Wilford Brimley looked like he was 65 when he was 30.
If you've seen the whole movie, this is the first time Wilford Brimley
addresses Hobbs as 'Roy'. Just happened to catch that.
Best Classic EVER
@GaryBoy54
the ability to look like a baseball player (charlie sheen) as opposed to the lack of any baseball talent whatsoever (tom berringer in the same movie) is a huge deal. great swing? my goodness. i think it's about 1:07, one of the most beautiful swings i've seen. i hope this movie made george brett proud. redford was an athlete at heart.
It's funny that the manager acted like it was the bat!
"The Natural"...what a great movie..loved it..The ambiance in the stadium is "spot on"
I like Baseball flicks/songs..More new & old baseball tunes can be heard on Ace Diamond's CD of 12-songs (Playin' Baseball)..on most download sites! Play Ball!
Absolutely great movie.
Baseball. Such a great game. Was scouted by a man named Larry D'amato when I was a kid. He invited me to try out for the Cincinatti Reds. Greatest day of my life at the time. Thrilling. Every boy should play baseball. Such a great game.... This was a fun movie. Memories.
Magic for the ages
Son and I love it.
Peace ✌️ 2024
Hitting a baseball is the greatest feeling ever...
Second greatest.
@@REHuntJr lol.....
Roy Hobbs was referenced on the t.v. show pilot of Quantum Leap . I suppose from the novel . Always wondered who Roy Hobbs was . Now I know .
My favorite era for actors.
The best sports movie ever. Redford was excellent and every performance was good.
Just saw this movie on TCM last night...I really liked it. It was a good movie.
Great reactions by the onlookers.
The rapid succession of bat meeting ball from 1:24 to 1:26..........brilliant film making.
Best sound ever
Great Video! Love it!
Greatest scene of all time
My favorite movie of all time.
I love this movie
Being from the Philly area I liked the manager's comment about it just being practice. Any time I hear that I recall Allen Iverson's rant about him missing practice.
I like how the older guy called him kid
i like how that old ass pitcher called him grampa haha
Was born in 1953 and growing up, baseball was King. Your status in the neighborhood depended on how you played and I played this game in B uffalo,NY.
"Red, this is practice. We'll see." And they did see.
joe! you are aware this is fiction, correct?