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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
IMO it’s to me less of a “downer” and more of an epic tragedy. You see why Hobbs is going to fall and why he has to. If anything I thought the movie sacrificed a good point - it would have been especially prescient when Pete Rose got banned - in favor of the Hollywood ending. There are some things an athlete just plain can’t ever fix and that in part is what The Natural is about (and really it’s a re-telling of the King Arthur tale in baseball form).
I’m not necessarily a fan of downer endings but I’m… not not a fan of them either, and I’ll take an earned downer ending over an unearned upper any day of the week.
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Okay, you've convinced me. I will "take a swing" at it. Heh.
EDIT: Although I do so reluctantly, for the reason I stated. Still, one is one and the other is another. One thing I will not do is to read the book and look at the movie in a short span of time. I will try to parse the two and approach them as separate and distinct experiences.