Coordinates | 34°03′″N118°15′″N |
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name | The Legend of Bagger Vance |
writer | Steven Pressfield (novel) Jeremy Leven (screenplay)| |
starring | Will Smith Matt Damon Charlize Theron| |
director | Robert Redford |
producer | Michael Nozik Jake Eberts Robert Redford |
music | Rachel Portman |
cinematography | Michael Ballhaus |
editing | Hank Corwin |
studio | Allied Filmmakers |
distributor | DreamWorks Pictures (USA) 20th Century Fox (non-USA) |
released | November 3, 2000 |
runtime | 126 minutes |
language | English |
country | United States |
budget | $80,000,000 |
gross | $39,459,427 }} |
The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 2000 American film directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron. It is based on the 1995 book of the same title by Steven Pressfield and takes place in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1931. This was Jack Lemmon's final film before his death in 2001.
On release, the film was attacked by several African American commentators and reviewers for using the "magical negro" as a plot device. Since the film's release, some in the mainstream media have also described the film as flawed and racially insensitive.
Years later (circa 1930, as Bobby Jones retired from golf at age 28, during the Great Depression), Adele is trying to recover her family's lost fortune by holding a four-round, two-day exhibition match between Jones (Joel Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (Bruce McGill), the best golfers of the era, with a grand prize of $10,000. She's holding it at a golf resort her father built as the Depression struck. However, she needs a local participant to generate local interest, so she asks her estranged love Junuh to play.
Junuh is approached by a mysterious traveler carrying a suitcase who appears while Junuh is trying to hit golf balls into the dark void of night. The man identifies himself as Bagger Vance (Will Smith) and says he will be Junuh's caddy. He then helps Junuh to come to grips with his personal demons and helps him to play golf again.
When the match starts, Jones and Hagen each play well in their distinctive ways, but Junuh plays poorly and is far behind after the first round. With Bagger caddying for him and giving advice, Junuh rediscovers his "authentic swing" in the second round and makes up some ground. In the third round, closes the gap even more. Junuh and Adele also find their romance rekindling.
Late in the final round, Junuh disregards Bagger's advice at a crucial point and after that plays poorly. He hits a ball into a forest, where he has a traumatic World War I flashback, but Bagger's words help him to focus on golf. Junuh pulls back to a tie with Jones and Hagen, then has a chance to win on the final hole, but calls a penalty on himself when his ball moves after he tries to remove an obstacle.
Seeing from this that Junuh has grown and matured, Bagger decides his golfer doesn't need him any more. Bagger leaves him as mysteriously as he met him, with the 18th hole unfinished. Though losing a chance to win because of the penalty, Junuh sinks an improbable putt to tie Jones and Hagen, so the match ends in a gentlemanly tie, the three golfers shake hands with all of Savannah cheering, and Junuh and Adele get back together.
During the match, Bagger Vance has a young assistant, Hardy Greaves (J. Michael Moncrief), who caddies after Bagger leaves. The beginning and end of the film features Hardy as an old man (Jack Lemmon) playing golf in the present day, and the story ends with an old Hardy seeing a never-aging Bagger Vance on the golf course. Bagger beckons, Hardy follows.
Film critic Roger Ebert, who gave it 3½ stars, said, "It handles a sports movie the way Billie Holiday handled a trashy song, by finding the love and pain beneath the story. Redford and his writer, Jeremy Leven, starting from a novel by Steven Pressfield, are very clear in their minds about what they want to do. They want to explain why it is possible to devote your life to the love of golf, and they want to hint that golf and life may have a lot in common". The BBC's George Perry called it a "sumptuously photographed film" but added that "in spite of being lovely to look at, it is pretentious piffle, although Will Smith shows skill and subtlety in his ludicrous role".
Director Spike Lee said that Hollywood's new idea was now the "Super-Duper Magical Negro" after seeing Bagger Vance. He said that it was just a reincarnation of "the same old" stereotype or caricature of African Americans as the "noble savage" or the "happy slave". Time called it one of the most "embarrassing" films of recent years for its treatment of African Americans and the use of a "Magical African-American Friend".
; Track list # My Best Wishes (2:27) # The Legend of Bagger Vance (2:11) # Savannah Needs a Hero (4:53) # Bagger Offers to Caddy for Junuh (4:07) # Bagger & Hardy Measure the Course at Night (2:32) # The Day of the Match Dawns (3:07) # Birdie (1:46) # Junuh Sees the Field (5:11) # Hole in One (2:30) # Junuh Comes Out of the Woods (3:55) # Bagger Leaves (3:12) # Old Hardy Joins Bagger by the Sea (5:50) # Bluin’ the Blues (2:27) # Mood Indigo (3:07)
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