Hobbs Proves His Worth At Batting Practice | The Natural (Wilford Brimley, Robert Redford)

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12 күн бұрын

My dears, in this scene, we see Roy (Robert Redford) stand his ground when Coach Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley) tells him that he is being sent back to the minor league. With confidence and conviction, Roy pleads to remain where he is, and Coach Fisher begrudgingly agrees. The next morning, Roy, with a homemade bat in hand, quickly demonstrates that he is a batter of major league status and that keeping him around is a good idea.
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🎬The Natural (1984): On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey). After 16 years, Hobbs returns to pro baseball as a rookie for the last-place New York Knights. Despite early arguments with his manager, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), Hobbs becomes one of the best players in the league, and the Knights start winning. But this upsets the Judge (Robert Prosky), their owner, who wants Hobbs to lose games, not win.
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@MovingPicsOfficial 8 күн бұрын

What’s your favourite sports movie all time?

@Nhamp2000 4 күн бұрын

Bull Durham.

@ji8044 2 күн бұрын

It has to be Brian's Song.

@davidjackson2690 2 күн бұрын

Bang the Drum Slowly.

@wshrig 2 күн бұрын

the Replacements

@elichilton7031 2 күн бұрын

Vision Quest (85')

@stevensmith743 2 күн бұрын

This film is pure magic from start to finish.

@ji8044 11 сағат бұрын

In the book, 19 year old Roy Hobbs is seduced by older woman Harriet Bird who then shoots him. In the movie the obviously 47 year old Robert Redford does the scene with the ten years younger Barbara Hershey to comedic effect because he is clearly a sexy, worldly, older man with a younger woman, standing the scene on its head.

@gregborneman5523 2 күн бұрын

The dramatic music when Hobbs hits the home run into the lights gets me everytime.

@donwilson1307 Күн бұрын

Yep, the Texas Rangers used that theme song after a ranger hit a home run. Gotta love it.

@greglee1465 18 сағат бұрын

One of my all time favorite moments in movies. I miss this version of Hollywood.

@ppmnox 13 сағат бұрын

we all do, kid. we all do.

@ManiacRacing 2 күн бұрын

There is a reason Redford is a legend. Movies like this showcase that reason!

@dethtongue945 Күн бұрын

One of the greatest movies of all time, and so obscure now. Just magic from start to finish. So pleased to see it pop up randomly in my KZfaq algorithm.

@jacktheripoff1888 3 күн бұрын

Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium. They were lucky to still have it to film this. From the right angles and close-ups it could have passed for the Polo Grounds. By the way how many others noticed how horrid that water is coming out of the drinking fountain?

@BudSchnelker Күн бұрын

Come on man, that's Lake Erie water! I live down in Dunkirk and I drink that stuff every day. It's good for you, puts hair on your chest.

@privateer0561 Күн бұрын

Every drinking fountain which looks like that has horrid water.

@jmad627 Күн бұрын

@@BudSchnelkerwhat’s could be wrong sharing a little iron, zinc and other heavy metals amongst friends, I say.

@lukedavis4441 5 сағат бұрын

The manager literally brings up how bad the water is earlier in the movie when the team is losing but because he is only focused on Hobbs hitting batting practice he drinks it without noticing or complaint.

@chrisweidner4768 3 күн бұрын

I love revisiting scenes from this brilliant film. “Well I sorta got sidetracked.” Hits hard.

@LesterMoore 3 күн бұрын

Max Mercy said he heard Hobbs was an acrobat in the circus!😄

@jaykay6387 3 күн бұрын

Story of my life.

@johncasamassa462 Күн бұрын

Don't we all. 😢 Paul Newman in "The Young Philadelphians" has a great line at the end, "I'm not as good as I hoped I'd be, but I'm not as bad as I thought I was."

@bobcole612 13 сағат бұрын

Iris: “I believe we have two lives.” Roy: “What do you mean?” Iris: “I believe we have two lives. The one we learn with, and the one we have to live after that.”

@blartuc2769 2 күн бұрын

I like that scene where Hobbs comes in from the outfield and throws a pitch

@davidmushinski8196 2 күн бұрын

One of the best baseball movies ever

@ppmnox 13 сағат бұрын

"one of the best movies ever." fixed it for ya.

@perceptionmatters7082 5 сағат бұрын

I love this scene so much. He asks Hobbs everything as a viewer we would want him too. Explaining the bats history makes it real, not imaginary. It was built when he was a kid and he built it out of a tree struck by lightning. No fancy flashbacks, no call of bs from the coach. Just simple storytelling within a story.

@toesuf94 9 күн бұрын

Beautifully shot film with a great story. Love this film.

@rhyshilders 5 күн бұрын

I could watch this film 3 times in a day. Perfection.

@ji8044 3 күн бұрын

He was way too old for the part and looked like anything but a "natural" as a baseball player. It was terrible casting.

@rhyshilders 3 күн бұрын

@@ji8044 you’re kidding yourself. He was perfectly cast. Brilliantly acted, you can believe him in the role. Yes he was mid to late 40s, but that was the point, he was sign sight unseen on the basis that he was beat up and old for a baseball player.

@ji8044 2 күн бұрын

@@rhyshilders Nope, in the book he's 35, but Redford was a ludicrous 47 years old. Plus Redford was a tennis player who never spent a single day on the diamond in his life. They had to cast very old looking actors around him, like Wilford Brimley and Richard Farnworth in an effort to make him look younger by comparison.

@civlyzed 2 күн бұрын

@@ji8044 And yet millions of us love it. To each his own. Cheers and Happy Independence Day!

@rhyshilders 2 күн бұрын

@@ji8044 nah again I disagree. Couldn’t care less what was in the book. Hobbs is a person who is beaten down from life’s trials, of an age he shouldn’t be playing baseball, and Robert Redford played it perfectly. You are entitled to not like it, but it’s a beloved movie classic for a reason, and a big chunk of that is people loving Redford in the role.

@rizon72 3 күн бұрын

I never noticed the color of the water when he gets a drink until now.

@Rosarymeds 3 күн бұрын

I guess they didn't care about rusty lead pipes back then

@jayhouston7054 3 күн бұрын

If I recall Pops complains about how bad the water is and usually spits it out, but is so shocked that Roy can hit that good doesn't even notice it that time.

@jeepliving1 3 күн бұрын

@@jayhouston7054 "Wouldn't you think that I could get a fresh drink of water after all the years I spent in this game? Red, did you talk to that bastard partner of mine about the drinking fountain?"

@ssmith7074 2 күн бұрын

@@Rosarymeds I'm not sure how you expect lead pipes to develop rust.

@Gumshoe88 2 күн бұрын

@@jayhouston7054notice he never takes his focus off hobbs

@mikebolt3753 3 күн бұрын

At start of BP he was called ‘grandpa.’ By the end he was called ‘kid.’

@marcd1981 Күн бұрын

Two different people used those terms. The player called him grandpa because he was older then all of the players, the batting coach called him kid because he was older than Hobbs.

@Paul-lm5gv 2 күн бұрын

Brimley was great in that role!

@danielfinn9460 8 сағат бұрын

Pop: "When I was young, Red, my mother urged me to get out of this game. When I was a kid, she pleaded with me. And I meant to, y'know, but she died." Red: "Tough." Pop: "I should'a got outa' this game, and I should'a been a *farmer* . I love chickens, and ducks, and pigs. Kinda' fond of nanny-goats, I am. Aw, C'mon Fowler, throw *STRIKES* !" Red: "Fowler's killin' worms, Pop."

@yeltsin6817 4 күн бұрын

On of the best movies ever

@scottward7813 5 күн бұрын

"Hobbs!" Then "Roy!" Love that

@prism8289 3 күн бұрын

Better yet, calling him kid.

@shanekilpatrick3378 3 күн бұрын

Yeah 👍🏻 😊

@4Truth05 3 күн бұрын

Not only is Robert Redford’s Roy Hobbs batting left handed and wearing No. 9, his swing is identical to one of the all time greatest hitters Ted Williams.

@ji8044 3 күн бұрын

LMFAO,. He was 47 years old, and the only sport he had ever played in his life was tennis. It was just absurd.

@waynenoll1967 2 күн бұрын

And Redford was about as unathletic as anyone. His skinny legs give away any chance to look like a power hitter, where most of the energy comes from the hips and legs. And before anyone mentions Ruth , he had a big fat ass on top of his skinny legs. All in all it was a good movie though.

@robertaustin2355 2 күн бұрын

It’s real good balanced swing. It’s bat speed that determines power

@JohnDoe-qu7gm 3 күн бұрын

One of my favorite scenes in movie history

@kylehubbs651 3 күн бұрын

"Well you're better than anyone I ever had. And you're the best GD hitter I ever saw.......suit up."

@TheGreatWhiteScout 3 күн бұрын

My favorite scene in the movie.

@jasonkilley 20 сағат бұрын

Love that so much

@Stevesautopartsify 16 сағат бұрын

🎯 gets me everytime!

@kevinbuja8105 Күн бұрын

I think Caleb Deschanel should have won an Oscar for his cinematography of this film. I remember watching a video of the making of this film, and Mr. Deschanel waited for quite some time for the right light for that shot of Glenn Close in that hat. He also, nearly choked to death Mr. Redford and Ms. Hershey when they were filming in the dining car.

@deathrowtodisneyworld5030 14 сағат бұрын

Beautifully shot❤

@jintsfan 10 күн бұрын

Love this film. Absolutely love it. Redford’s dress sense, leather jacket, shirt, tie and fedora are the dog’s bollocks.

@vonbek778 9 сағат бұрын

Wilfred Brimley was 25 when they filmed this.

@GNXXRAY 3 күн бұрын

My favorite sports movie ever

@REB4444 6 күн бұрын

I forget how much I LOVE baseball until I see these highlights and it reminds me why it's special.

@richjasso 3 күн бұрын

Best baseball movie ever .

@mjcruiser4238 3 күн бұрын

Kinda a toss up with Field of Dreams and Bull Durham

@WilliamLevin916 3 күн бұрын

@@mjcruiser4238 Don't forget For The Love Of The Game

@mjcruiser4238 3 күн бұрын

Not for me

@mjcruiser4238 3 күн бұрын

Actually there is another on on my list “Bang the Drum Slowly”

@nicholasmuro1742 Күн бұрын

Bad News Bears and The Sandlot

@wvu05 7 күн бұрын

It's still shocking to me that Robert Redford was only two years younger than Wilford Brimley.

@don0612 4 күн бұрын

Diabetus

@LesterMoore 3 күн бұрын

@@don0612And wine, booze, women and song?🤔

@deepee1452 3 күн бұрын

Wow “The diabetus”

@ksrmk 3 күн бұрын

@@don0612😂

@bgmcc907 3 күн бұрын

The Face.

@twil2389 Күн бұрын

Glad he was a true athlete and knew how to swing a bat, unlike many of the other actors in this movie.

@coweez8224 Күн бұрын

You mean like shoeless Joe hitting right handed?? Drives me crazy.

@twil2389 Күн бұрын

@@coweez8224 I know, me too. And the actor who plays Ray Kinsella as a catcher can’t throw! Last scene of that movie always bugs me

@donkeytime1704 Күн бұрын

I love that scene when the third baseman wasn't paying attention and gets squared off in the nuts... I crack up every time during that scene... Losing is a disease... Lol 😝

@gamera1962 Күн бұрын

Might be my favorite baseball movie.

@graniteman62 6 күн бұрын

Great movie with an old type story, no fancy crap etc, just straight forward from beginning to end

@stevejanowiak1982 4 күн бұрын

“Fancy crap!” 😂 Love it. And I agree w you 100%!

@TheGent2 Күн бұрын

Don Drysdale (LA Dodgers) said that Robert might have been able to play in the big leagues. They were teammates at Van Nuys High School in So Cal. Robert (or Bobby) played second base.

@therealbs2000 19 сағат бұрын

Amazing, he played the pivot as a left handed thrower? Or did he just learn to throw lefty for the movie? Either way i would be amazed!!!

@ji8044 15 сағат бұрын

No he never said any such thing. Redford was a tennis player. LOL

@asmukler 13 сағат бұрын

Yeah I read about that recently. It's kind of unclear how much Robert Redford actually played but Don Drysdale did like him.

@jpn5525 2 күн бұрын

Best baseball movie ever made

@charleshultquist9233 2 күн бұрын

Tremendous film

@sfperalta Күн бұрын

SUCH a good movie!!

@somedude8618 Күн бұрын

On my top all time movies list!

@cblanton42 Күн бұрын

Great movie, one of my favorites! I can't think of a better baseball movie.

@ji8044 15 сағат бұрын

Eight Men Out, by john Sayles is 1000% better.

@cblanton42 4 сағат бұрын

@@ji8044 I fell asleep twice watching that movie. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.😂

@nicklangmusic 15 сағат бұрын

Man, I talk about my favorite Baseball movies, but I’ve legit never seen this whole movie. May have to queue it up in the near future, see if my list needs updating!

@cazhgacel 4 күн бұрын

Such a good movie

@commonsenseisntcommon1776 3 күн бұрын

Great movie!

@O.J._is_Guilty 6 сағат бұрын

2:30Was that water coming from the fountain brown?😂

@TheSuperParatrooper Күн бұрын

It is so interesting that if you listen you can hear a radial aircraft engine in the background right as Hobbs was about to enter the batting cage. This would have been period for this time in history.

@jfstennisman 3 күн бұрын

I've never seen chocolate milk come out of a drinking fountain.

@timpatrick564 3 күн бұрын

Just live by Homer Simpson water rules. If its brown, drink it down... If its black, send it back.

@rickheagerty9373 Күн бұрын

Really a good movie.

@ontheroad5317 2 күн бұрын

This simply a great story with great actors, great cinematography, great direction. It’s amazing that you don’t need CGI to make a great film.

@tomcooper6108 Күн бұрын

I saw Redford's batting jacket for The Natural in a display case. It's tiny. My girlfriend asked, "Guess the film makes him look big?"

@davidkean5680 3 күн бұрын

Very good

@acedrumminman 2 күн бұрын

"Not bad kid" hahahahahahahaha!

@tommyzai7038 3 күн бұрын

Underrated film!! Love it.

@atticstattic 3 күн бұрын

Underated? How?

@venalleader2909 2 күн бұрын

my favorite scene is the one where he hits a home run.

@d.t.eklund1148 Күн бұрын

Earlier in the movie Wilford Brimley gripes about not being able to get a good drink of water.

@VoxRox1 18 сағат бұрын

Diabeetus

@johnchamberlin2077 Күн бұрын

How many know the heroic, romantic movie ending is NOT what is in the book?

@user-fc7lb8nb9h 6 сағат бұрын

He took the $$

@pedroiarules Күн бұрын

Nobody else mentioned it so I will. The exchange in the dark tunnel where you can’t see either of their faces. Homer?

@jaybarnes8034 7 күн бұрын

Zack Hample should have been in the movie.

@JoeBuck-uc3bl 23 сағат бұрын

Wow coach, imagine that brilliant move!! Actually watching someone swing a bat before giving them the ax!!

@lsmft9576 3 күн бұрын

Yaz!

@ultimatebucco3181 2 күн бұрын

Bob Nutting must sign this Hobbs guy pronto!! 🤣🤣🤣

@EugeneONeill-pf5bj 20 сағат бұрын

Even though director Barry Levinson changed the outcome of Bernard Malamud’s novel, the film is the best baseball movie of all time. Perfectly cast and beautifully filmed, it captures the innocence of baseball in America, the relentlessness of greed, and restless spirit of the underdog.

@ji8044 15 сағат бұрын

You couldn't find a less athletic and less age appropriate group of actors if you tried.

@larrydanadavid2435 4 күн бұрын

One of the best baseball movies. Tied with Eight Men Out.

@iatsd 3 күн бұрын

For Love of the Game - fewer cliches, better cinematography & scripting IMO.

@werenotclowns3241 3 күн бұрын

I'd put Bull Durham in the conversation as well. But nothing tops The Natural. It was filmed in Buffalo, NY where I grew up. I used to go see the AAA Buffalo Bisons in that stadium...and a classmate was an extra in the movie. It came out when I was in 3rd grade. Such fond memories!

@johnchamberlin2077 Күн бұрын

see a young Robert DeNiro in BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY

@jb7591 Күн бұрын

May have to recruit him to the local cricket side.

@JoybuzzerX Күн бұрын

They should've tested him with another bat. :p Not to mention, even if the bat wasn't regulation, he connected with every pitch.

@blacjackdaniels200 13 сағат бұрын

2:29 is He drinking out of a septic tank?

@31terikennedy Күн бұрын

It's a tossup for the best baseball movie: The Natural, Bull Durham or the original Angels in the Outfield (1951)

@nautilusshell940 3 күн бұрын

2:25 that water looks delicious

@Koulnis 3 күн бұрын

They recycle all the dip spit.

@asmukler 13 сағат бұрын

I always want to take a drink of water after that

@darylfoster7944 Күн бұрын

Never noticed before, but the water coming out of the fountain looks like it's brown.

@geraldpatterson3903 10 сағат бұрын

Doo doo water

@DavidLecorchick Күн бұрын

All gave some, but only Bump gave all.......may he rest in peace.

@honusbakewell7546 Күн бұрын

The Rockpile was beautiful

@wmst5065 4 күн бұрын

What do figure was coming out of that water fountain, bootleg whiskey?

@toeey1 3 күн бұрын

Hard to believe, but Wilford Brimley was only 27 in this scene. Crazy

@KenOnStrength 3 күн бұрын

He aged like Sparky Anderson

@kwebster62 2 күн бұрын

Funny. For the uninformed, Brimley was 49 when this movie came out.

@KenOnStrength 2 күн бұрын

@@kwebster62 - Robert Redford was 46

@toeey14 2 күн бұрын

@@kwebster62 yes I know. It’s funny how he was able to play a senior citizen in cocoon the very next year. At 50

@d.t.eklund1148 Күн бұрын

Wilford Brimley was 50 when he was born

@jasonjansen9831 Күн бұрын

Ground design here

@robertbloom4424 11 сағат бұрын

Wilford Brimley is 25 in this movie.

@marshallmcclurg1168 3 сағат бұрын

Post Master General job is to get things done.

@idgas68 17 сағат бұрын

We could use him In Detroit right now

@alanrogs3990 2 күн бұрын

I wish I had his jawline. 😂

@anthonycruciani939 Күн бұрын

If u love baseball u love this movie.

@cablezilla 5 сағат бұрын

Even if you don’t love baseball……

@anthonycruciani939 Сағат бұрын

@@cablezilla Also true.

@hotchkissart 3 күн бұрын

Great scene, but i just noticed the COLOR OF THE WATER from the fountain!! Yikes!

@seeburgm100a 2 күн бұрын

Wilfred gonna get DIA BEET US from it.

@timburr4453 3 күн бұрын

Brimley is 49 years old here. Redford is 2 years younger

@kwebster62 2 күн бұрын

Back when 49 looked so much older.

@dougbodenhamer9391 8 күн бұрын

Great movie. But the book waa great too, but, let's just say, had a different ending.

@mattrinck7503 4 күн бұрын

From what I've read, the author was fine with the change and said something like the book ending wouldn't work well for a movie.

@mkfd4571 2 күн бұрын

Yes! For sure! The movie is much better!! More inspirational than him striking out. 😝

@JosephCarcasole Күн бұрын

Poor Brimley got the beetus.

@user-cz9jf1ec8s 2 күн бұрын

1:35 surely they didn’t do batting practice without helmets…

@johnbertrand7185 2 күн бұрын

Movie takes place in 1939 (the patch on the uniform is one all teams wore that season to celebrate the 100th anniversary of baseball). Batting helmets didn't appear until the mid-1950's and weren't made mandatory until 1971.

@jasperchieng9294 3 күн бұрын

What the hell was that sludge that came out of the water fountain?

@dangermartin69 3 күн бұрын

Rusty water.

@shanekilpatrick3378 3 күн бұрын

And Pitching was his first talent. Imagine what could have been?!

@ryanmarshall3487 2 күн бұрын

Am I seeing things, or is the water that’s coming out of the fountain brown?

@1969EType Күн бұрын

Earlier he says, “Red…Red…is it expecting too much to ask for a clean drink of water?” but he’s so distracted here he doesn’t notice or care.

@ryanmarshall3487 14 сағат бұрын

@@1969EType Oh yeah! It’s been forever since I’ve sat and watched the whole movie that I forgot about that part. Thank you!

@gregorybriner9658 9 күн бұрын

Great movie but there is no way Hobbs would be denied batting practice under any scenario

@tomshea8382 8 күн бұрын

If Pop thought Hobbs was a gimmick being foisted on him by the Judge to make his team even worse, he might feel as if he had seen through it and would deny Roy any and every trapping of play.

@rgr4475 4 күн бұрын

Fictional movie, just go with it....

@rizon72 3 күн бұрын

Given the situation between Pops and the Judge would you play Hobbs?

@aaaaaaaaaaaa808 3 күн бұрын

Robert Redford is the original Brad Pitt without the politics.

@artlover1477 2 күн бұрын

Hmm, RR has always had progressive-liberal politics in him. He was an environmentalist before it was in vogue

@davidbyronhopson 3 күн бұрын

But shouldn't they be playing Calvinball?

@Revkor Күн бұрын

+++++++++++++++++++++++++was the NY knights and actul team back i nthe day or are they fictional?

@baceff6478 2 күн бұрын

I mean the movie is classic, but am I the only one that thinks it was just weird...

@KenOnStrength 2 күн бұрын

Diabeetus

@ericjohnson6105 8 сағат бұрын

It's a fairy tale. But a wonderful fairy tale.

@willie1227 2 күн бұрын

Anyone who’s played baseball can tell Robert Redford is a ball player. The way he swings the bat and throws the ball is very “Natural.”

@ji8044 2 күн бұрын

He literally never played baseball in his life. He's a tennis player.

@SmartFirstPrincipleThinking 2 күн бұрын

Redford played on the Van Nuys HS baseball team with Don Drysdale, he went to University of Colorado with a baseball scholarship

@ji8044 Күн бұрын

@@SmartFirstPrincipleThinking That's entirely false. LOL Just studio publicity nonsense.

@JohnFoxx108 2 күн бұрын

Too bad Robert Redford got Diabeetus

@RKelleyCook 5 сағат бұрын

Its really too bad Hobbs had the diabeetus, he could have been the best there ever was

@Jenna-Tailya 3 күн бұрын

Diabetes

@Dudeman9339 Күн бұрын

Such a shame Redford has such a crap swing

@ji8044 15 сағат бұрын

Possibly the worst sports movie ever,. In the scene where the 47 year old Redford laughably pretends to be a 19 year old, he strikes out the Whammer played by Joe Don Baker, who in real life is exactly the same age as Redford. It's like the people who made this movie never played sports or have even seen a baseball game and believe the players are middle-aged men in their forties. Even crazier, Barbara Hershey, who is supposed to be the older woman who seduces 19 year old Hobbs is actually ten years younger than Redford.

@mb32174 8 сағат бұрын

Would you like some of our finest cheeses to go with that whine sir?