The Legend of Bagger Vance

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The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance DVD cover
Directed by	Robert Redford
Produced by	Chris Brigham Jake Eberts Michael Nozik Robert Redford Joseph P. Reidy Karen Tenkhoff (executive)
Written by	Steven Pressfield (novel) Jeremy Leven (screenplay)
Starring	Will Smith Matt Damon Charlize Theron
Distributed by	- USA - DreamWorks - non-USA - 20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	November 5, 2000
Running time	126 min.
Language	English
Budget	$60,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 1995 book by Steven Pressfield (ISBN 0-380-81744-6), transporting the story of The Bhagavad Gita to the world of Georgia in the 1920s. It is also the name of a 2000 film directed by Robert Redford, based upon the book. The explicit parallels between Pressfield’s novel and the Bhagavad Gita are brought out in a book called Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance (Continuum, 2000), written by Hinduism scholar Steven Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa). Pressfield himself wrote the foreword for Rosen’s book. It was also Jack Lemmon’s final film before his death in 2001.

• Tagline: Some things can’t be learned. They must be remembered.

[edit] Cast

• Will Smith — Bagger Vance, a.k.a. Bhagavan or Krishna
• Matt Damon — Rannulph Junuh (“R. Junuh”), a.k.a. Arjuna
• Charlize Theron — Adele Invergordon
• Bruce McGill — Walter Hagen
• Joel Gretsch — Bobby Jones
• J. Michael Moncrief — Hardy Greaves
• Lane Smith — Grantland Rice
• Jack Lemmon — Old Hardy Greaves (Uncredited)

[edit] Soundtrack

The soundtrack to The Legend of Bagger Vance was released on the seventh day of November, 2000. It was mostly written by Rachel Portman; except for tracks one (“My Best Wishes”), thirteen (“Bluin’ the Blues”) and fourteen (“Mood Indigo”), which were written by Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller, Joseph “Muggsy” Spanier and Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, respectively. The tracklist is as follows:

1. My Best Wishes (2:27)
2. The Legend of Bagger Vance (2:11)
3. Savannah Needs a Hero (4:53)
4. Bagger Offers to Caddy for Junuh (4:07)
5. Bagger & Hardy Measure the Course at Night (2:32)
6. The Day of the Match Dawns (3:07)
7. Birdie (1:46)
8. Junuh Sees the Field (5:11)
9. Hole in One (2:30)
10. Junuh Comes Out of the Woods (3:55)
11. Bagger Leaves (3:12)
12. Old Hardy Joins Bagger by the Sea (5:50)
13. Bluin’ the Blues (2:27)
14. Mood Indigo (3:07)

• Total soundtrack time: 47:15

[edit] External links

• The Legend of Bagger Vance at the Internet Movie Database

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