Ice Breaker – In The Movies
Each week on The Stretched Blog, I ask an ice breaker question. The questions are designed to help us get to know each other here in The Stretched Community. I’ll provide my answer to the question here in the post, and then you can leave your response in the comments. While you’re in the comments section, see how others answered the ice breaker question.
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Question: If you could be in the movie of your choice, what movie would you choose and what character would you play?
My Answer: First, I would go with Field of Dreams. This is my favorite movie of all-time. I love the story and how it encourages viewers to dream crazy dreams. If I were to choose a character from the movie to play, I would go with Archibald Graham. If you remember the story, he played baseball as a young man. He played in the minor leagues for most of his short career. When he finally got the call to play in the big leagues, he never had the opportunity for a plate appearance.
He ended up going into medicine, and he became a small-town family doctor. His dream of getting a big league hit never came to fruition. In the movie, he is given another shot had fulfilling this dream when a crazy farmer in Iowa (played by Kevin Costner) invites him to his field where “ghosts” from baseball past gather to play a game in a field surrounded by corn.
I don’t want to give the whole movie away for those who haven’t seen it yet, but there’s another point in the movie where Archie Graham has to make a decision about baseball and medicine. Through the decision, we discover an incredible love for others. This is the way I want to respond when presented with such a decision. For this reason, I think it would be a great experience to play his character in the move.
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