Roy Hobbs: Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for...
Iris Gains: Now I believe we have two lives, the life we learn with, and the life we live with after that....
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Roy Hobbs: the day in Chicago, why did you stand up?
Iris Gaines: I didn't want to see you fail.
The Natural is a great film, yet Mr. Roger Ebert strongly believed otherwise. He was a great movie critic though, and he was right when he said that The Natural was not a baseball movie. No, it wasn't a baseball movie, but an American fairy tale instead.
Oftentimes in an American fairy tale, the hero must be either playing basketball or shooting a pistol, and his lovely woman, wreathed in ethereal light, always "sits in the stands and inspires him", happily ever after.
