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MAR20107
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), (PG-13)
CAP Score: 69
CAP Influence Density: 0.55
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A service to parents and grandparents MAR20107 The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), (PG-13) CAP Score: 69 CAP Influence Density: 0.55 |
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SUMMARY / COMMENTARY: THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE (PG-13) -- definitely NOT a R-13. Will Smith in the role of a wise sage? He has been just about everything else and now filmmakers and writers are trying to make him a wise and noble mentor. And he was good at it. Very good. Smith gave us a warm and very touching performance as Bagger Vance, an itinerant drifter who became the mentor of Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon). Bagger just appeared, did his job, then left. Not to be seen again for about 60 years, apparently still a young man. Was Bagger an angel? Robert Redford, the director, never told us. Bagger was the best thing that ever happened to Junuh. The Legend of Bagger Vance, while definitely equivalent to R-rated flicks in language and drugs/alcohol, was in everything else G or PG in comparison to the 39 movies in the CAP developmental comparative baseline database of movies -- definitely NOT a R-13. Indeed, the final score of 69 puts this movie two points into the 18-point scoring cell for PG movies in the CAP comparative baseline database, two points above the upper cell boundary (67) for PG-13 movies. The Legend of Bagger Vance is another very good example of the utility of the CAP Entertainment Media Analysis Model to objectively reveal to parents and grandparents -- both visually and numerically -- the distribution of entertainment ignominy in a way no other movie analysis or review service can. Several folks are trying to duplicate and even create parodies of the CAP model. They may look like the CAP model on the surface, but they cannot duplicate the intricate mathematical model that gives you the 5-year proven reliability and consistency of the CAP scoring system. A website that is under construction is www.capreports.com and states "Welcome to our new internet domain!" Though it uses "capreports" as its domain, it is NOT a CAP ministry service and they cannot give you true cap reports unless they copy our reports and post them on their site. Another movie review service for parents, also younger than the CAP ministry, has apparently plagiarized the CAP model. Clearly, it sounds as though I am drifting but I say these things for a reason -- to let those to whom such should be legally important that the CAP model, methodology and everything else with CAP on it is copyrighted and registered. Since he was 16 years old, Rannulph Junuh was a success at golf. Having won just about every golf thing there was to win in Savannah, Georgia, Rannulph was apparently on his way to becoming a golf legend. But World War I had other plans for him. After his entire Army company were killed Captain Junuh, apparently a hero, lost something. Drive? Ability to care? For 10 years Junuh drank and gambled [Prov. 23:21]. Whatever it was he lost, it destroyed his greatness in golf ... until Bagger came along. When the Great Depression hit, rich daddy Invergordon sank his last dollar into building the greatest of golf courses, expecting it to take hold and make money. But alas, it does not. And comes part of the ignominy -- he kills himself. This leaves his adult daughter Adele (Charlize Theron) to fend for herself. And that she does. She risks everything she owns of the estate -- about $10,000 worth of possessions -- and coordinates an exhibition golf tournament and invites the two greatest golfers, Walter Hagen (Bruce McGill) and Bobby Jones (Joel Gretsch) to play in the exhibition. To bolster local support and spirit, using everything she has to offer as a woman [1Cor. 10:8] she convinces Rannulph Junuh to play. While Rannulph slugs some golf balls into the dark of night in attempts to recapture that which the war and 10 years of drinking and gambling stole, Bagger enters and the story takes off from there. There is much this movie has to offer as a masterpiece of the performing arts. Too bad some of it has to be what the Bible calls filthy language [Col. 3:8] and immoral/impure behavior [Eph. 5:5]. That "people are that way" does not excuse the sinfulness of such choices of behavior nor serving them up as entertainment. And *please* do not think me condescending or "holier than thou." I, too, am a sinner -- there is no hypocrisy here. I am simply sharing His Word, His teachings and expectations with you. I didn't write the Rules, I am just repeating them and they apply to me as much as they apply to you. Replaying the movie in my mind, I can find absolutely no use for any of the bad stuff. The foul language was useless -- it added no more to the play than would leaving it out subtract [Col. 4:6]. There was no use for the attempts of Adele to use sex [1Ths. 4:3], in front of a young boy no less [Luke 17:2], to coerce Rannulph to play in the tournament, or for their sexual antics in daddy's house. Adele and Rannulph could have been portrayed in love without the sex. And what, besides the movies, is to say that love requires sex? The smoking, drinking and drunkenness did absolutely nothing for the theme, plot or delivery other than Junuh's plight for 10 years. We didn't watch or follow him for ten years. Saying it would have been quite enough. There is more to the ignominy of this movie, but I will leave that to the listing in the Findings/Scoring section -- the heart of the CAP analysis model. As always, it is best to refer to the Findings/Scoring section -- the heart of the CAP analysis model -- for the most complete assessment possible of this movie. 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NOTE: Multiple occurrences of each item described below may be likely, definitely when plural. Wanton Violence/Crime (W): Impudence/Hate (I)(1): Sex/Homosexuality (S): Drugs/Alcohol (D): Offense to God (O)(2): Murder/Suicide (M)(3):  |
