... most obvious thing that Levinson borrowed is that the overriding theme of The Natural, that is, of a mans quest for redemption. A common theme not only in baseball movies, but to more extent, in life. One swing of the bat can make an ordinary man into a hero or a hero into an ordinary man. The ... In both the novel and the film Roy Hobbs has something to prove, he wants to be the best that there ever was in baseball. Levinson in the film also borrows the quality of a fable or myth from Malamud's The Natural . The film like the novel romanticizes everything about ... the game of baseball...

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