{"id":196,"date":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/05\/2000-11-05-legend-of-bagger-vance-movie-based-on-bhagavad-gita-opens-in-theatres-to-mixed-reviews\/"},"modified":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-05-legend-of-bagger-vance-movie-based-on-bhagavad-gita-opens-in-theatres-to-mixed-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/05\/2000-11-05-legend-of-bagger-vance-movie-based-on-bhagavad-gita-opens-in-theatres-to-mixed-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Legend of Bagger Vance movie, based on Bhagavad Gita, opens in theatres to mixed reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/ebert1\/bag03f.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>USA: Robert Redford&#8217;s latest movie, &#8220;The Legend of Bagger Vance,&#8221; which opened in 2,000 theaters across America this weekend, is based upon the book of the same name. The book  is an adaptation of the &#8220;Bhagavad Gita&#8221; into the story of a 1920&#8217;s game of golf. Most viewers won&#8217;t make the connection, and most professional reviewers seem clueless, too, though a few sensed a &#8220;Zen&#8221; or &#8220;Hindu&#8221; flavor to the philosophy. For example, Roger Ebert called it the &#8220;first Zen movie about golf.&#8221; The movie&#8217;s plot centers around a has-been golfer, &#8220;Rannulph Junuh&#8221; (read &#8220;R. Junnuh,&#8221; as in &#8220;Arjuna&#8221;), played by Matt Damon, who is advised by a caddy, Bagger Vance (read &#8220;Bhagavan,&#8221; i.e. Lord Krishna), played by Will Smith.  Ebert likes the movie, but CNN reviewer Paul Tatara said, &#8220;you&#8217;ve certainly seen worse movies, but Redford really blew an opportunity here.&#8221;  Steven Rosen has written a book, &#8220;Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance,&#8221; detailing the novel&#8217;s derivation from the Bhagavad Gita. It can be advance ordered at Amazon.com.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE USA: Robert Redford&#8217;s latest movie, &#8220;The Legend of Bagger Vance,&#8221; which opened in 2,000 theaters across America,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}