Today, most farms produce about 1100 acres of corn per season but, back then, most farms produced around 600 acres per season.
#Field of dreams movie movie#
In the mid-to-late 1980s (when this movie was made) the profit yield was far less, maybe only $150 or less profit per acre. The supernatural cornfield events that followed years later were mainly about Ray and his father healing old wounds, the accused members of the Chicago White Sox getting a second chance to play, and Terence Mann losing the bitterness that had filled his writing for decades.Ĭhosen answer: In modern times (say, over the last 10 years) corn crops yield about $240 in profit per acre.
So, Terence Mann was really the starting point, the No.1 catalyst behind everything in Ray's troubled personal life. Understandably, Ray always regretted that he never resolved the bad feelings with his father. Because of Terence Mann's book, Ray and his father had a heated argument that caused Ray to give up baseball, which created a lifelong rift between them that lasted right up to John Kinsella's death. At the age of 14, Ray read a book by Terence Mann that denounced the 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team as criminals, and Ray posed that argument to his father (his father believed the White Sox were wrongly accused).
#Field of dreams movie professional#
When Ray Kinsella was a child, his father (John Kinsella) had high hopes that Ray would become a professional baseball player he encouraged Ray and they played ball constantly. "Go the distance" was about traveling to bring both Terence Mann and Moonlight Graham into this magical place where all of their lost dreams could be fulfilled, as well.Īnswer: This is speculation, but the No.1 seat possibly referred to Terence Mann being the number one reason the whole " Field of Dreams" story was set in motion. So, "Ease his pain," applied not only to Ray's father, but also to Ray himself and to writer Terence Mann and to Moonlight Graham. As it turned out, Graham was long-since deceased, but Ray and Terence meet Graham's young ghost who returns with them to join the cornfield team. When he travels to Boston looking for Terence Mann, Ray and Terence both hear the words "Go the distance," convincing them to travel to Chisholm, Minnesota, looking for an ex-ballplayer named "Moonlight" Graham (who never actually got to bat in the big league, either). Ray was also supernaturally guided to seek out the angry writer Terence Mann (who had always dreamed of playing professional baseball, but never did). Ray himself had a lot of pain and regret over arguing with his father about baseball.
Answer: Ray's mission was not confined to easing the pain of his deceased father.
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