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The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 2000 American sports fantasy drama film directed by Robert Redford, and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, and Charlize Theron.The screenplay by Jeremy Leven is based on Steven Pressfield's 1995 book The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life.
The god Krishna appears as Bhagavan (Bagger Vance) to help Arjuna follow the path of the warrior and hero that he was meant to take. This relationship was fully explained by Steven J. Rosen in his 2000 book Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance, for which Pressfield wrote the foreword. [5]
The Magical Negro is a subset of the more generic numinous Negro, a term coined by Richard Brookhiser in the National Review. [3] The latter term refers to saintly, respected, or heroic black protagonists or mentors. The following list presents examples of the archetype that have been proposed or discussed.
Chris Rock made references to the trope on his show The Chris Rock Show, including one critical of The Legend of Bagger Vance, entitled "Migger, the Magic Nigger". Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, of MADtv and Key and Peele fame, followed suit in both shows with their own critical Magical Negro sketches. [citation needed] [19]
Pressfield's first book, The Legend of Bagger Vance, which was loosely based on the Bhagavad Gita, was published in 1995, and was made into a 2000 film of the same name directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Matt Damon. [3] His second novel, Gates of Fire (1998), is about the Spartans and the battle at ...
[53] He was similarly deemed "uncomfortable being the center" of Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance by Peter Rainer of New York magazine. [54] During this period, Damon joined two lucrative film series—Ocean's Trilogy (2001–2007) and Bourne (2002–2016)—and produced the television series Project Greenlight (2001–2005, 2015).
Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance's memoir of a poor childhood in Appalachia, propelled its author to national notoriety in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory. Back then, Vance was an ...
Despite the attitude regarding the character of Bagger Vance as a "magical negro" as per Spike Lee's commentary, this film was best served by having Will Smith portray the mysterious Bagger Vance. Factoring in the era in which the film is set adds to the value of Bagger's being black.