When you think of Keanu Reeves, what comes to mind? The black-clad sleek hacker in The Matrix, the retired killer who failed to wash his hands in the golden basin in The Rush, or the rock kid in Cyberpunk 2077?
Keanu Reeves, who has starred in many well-known blockbusters and even the voice of the game, actually made a baseball movie many years ago.
Keanu Reeves playing scrap wood? The impact of these two words together is no less than "ordinary ancient Heavenly Music, ordinary Andy Lau". So next, let's take a look at how this movie called "Dream Chaser" actually made such a fancy speech!
Former scalpers taught, and the miscellaneous army won the first victory
Conner O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is an out-and-out social Luthor who gambles and drinks and sells scalper tickets. Speaking of this, it has to be mentioned that Keanu himself in order to experience the scalper life of Connor in the play, he also left a beard and wore a duck-tongue hat to go outside the stadium to personally sell scalper tickets, but was soon discovered and captured by the security guards in the stadium.
And Connor, who is addicted to gambling in the play, not only lost his family, but also was paid by the bookmaker, and he had no choice but to go to his friend Jimmy who worked in a securities company to borrow money. However, knowing that the boy was in trouble, Jimmy didn't want to lend him a single son, but was willing to offer him a job. As long as Connor is willing to coach the local community baseball team, he can be paid $500 a week. Connor, who was forced to liangshan, had to agree with his scalp.
After coming to the team, Connor realized that things were not so simple. The group of young players he is about to train is of all size, age, and quirks. The only thing this team has in common is the heart of the fight against baseball. Worse still, it's a community of black people living in poor conditions, and there are even gangs that often haunt the team, and the team's young players live in the shadow of fear every day.
It was hard to get together the young players who participated in the Minor League games, who knew that the difficulties had just begun, due to the long lack of systematic training, the team suffered a fiasco in the first game. The young players were demoralized, and Connor took the initiative to invite the team to eat pizza to boost morale. The children who had pizza to eat naturally quickly cheered up, and the team's original third baseman also proposed to Connor that he wanted to be a pitcher in the next game, and Connor, who did not understand the level of the children, casually agreed.
Soon the team ushered in the second game. The new pitcher takes a Walkman to pitch, and he has to find his pitching rhythm through music when he only listens to a song at a time. The result impressed Connor, the pitcher with his own BGM suppressed the whole field, constantly creating three strikes, the other side could not do anything with him, and the team successfully won the first victory.
Overcome the addiction to gambling and realize the dreams of children
The children live in slum-like homes, and every day they come home worried about being troubled by the gangs and often encounter gang gun battles. And the only joy that belongs to them in this dark and oppressive life is playing baseball. For these kids, baseball may be the antidote to their hard routine. For Connor, for the first time in his life, he needed to take responsibility for someone other than himself. He was infected by the tenacious struggle of these children for life and realized the heavy responsibility of this humble job.
However, Connor, who had managed to stabilize, could not resist the temptation to gamble and bet on the game again at the instigation of his friends. The coaches of the opposing teams also complained to the league about the many problems of the Connor team, and Connor himself could no longer bear the heavy pressure of betting on the game, and sadly told the team that he had decided not to do it, and turned away.
Connor, who was afraid of losing the bet, did not expect that the bet game would finally be successfully turned over and he would make a lot of money. He thought that Connor would get into the quagmire again because of the huge money, but when he remembered the children he had given up, Connor decided to change his ways, completely stopped, and returned to the court to find real happiness through baseball with these children. He eventually chose to use the money he earned to fulfill his children's dreams, taking them to a major league game and letting the children meet the stars they had admired for a long time.
Take the "baby egg" and win the championship together
Coaches who have no intention of teaching and teams that seem to be bad have combined to become "negative and negative". The children helped Connor realize the true meaning of life, and Connor volunteered to help the children achieve their dreams.
Before the league semifinals, Connor also bought new jerseys for the team out of his own pocket, the children changed out of their old clothes that were dirty and worn, and their morale was boosted when they put on the new jerseys, and they were entangled with their opponents until the bottom half of the nine innings.
After two outs, Connor replaced the team's youngest player, "Baby Egg", because he had never played due to age restrictions, but the team was left with only this one player due to injury. The opposing coach wanted to complain, but when he saw that such a small player had been replaced, he simply returned to his seat in order to win. Connor told the "baby egg" to put down the baggage and play on the field, it doesn't matter if you don't want to swing the stick, but if you see the ball you can play, swing the stick with all your might.
There are people in one or three bases, "Baby Egg" after watching a close ball, the next ball swings the bat with full force, and the small white ball passes through the top of the first baseman and lands to form a winning and safe play. This miscellaneous army successfully won the ticket to the final with a miraculous blow!
However, such a victory miracle did not lead to a fairytale ending of great consummation. After the race, Connor drove the "Baby Egg" and his brother home as is customary. However, shortly after Connor left, the two children were caught in a gang fight downstairs, and the stray bullet hit the chest of the "baby egg" and unfortunately died. Such a young child, just because he encountered an unfounded chaotic war between gangsters, his dream of setting sail came to an abrupt end, and the cruel living environment still left innocence with nowhere to rest.
Although the shadow of grief still hangs over the team, the Minor League Regional Finals are still about to begin. Everyone on the team has a black veil with the number "Baby Egg" wrapped around their arms to take him with them to win the championship that the little players dream of. In the end, it lived up to expectations and made dreams come true.
That's the end of the film. Winning a small Junior Baseball regional final, the children's daily lives will not change dramatically, and after putting down the trophy, they still have to return to the slum-like home and continue to endure the uneasiness and pain. But as the song sings "We can be Heroes, just for one day; We can be us, just for one day", even insignificant little people have a time to shine, and even childlike touches can connect with hope for the future. Baseball, on the other hand, has given them such an opportunity.