Marty and Max: What do you want?
Marty Walker and Max
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One of the most popular movie lines of all time is… ”If you build it…” Can you finish it? Do you know what comes next? If your answer is, “If you build it THEY will come,” then you are incorrect.
In the movie, "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner plays Ray Kinsella and James Earl Jones plays Terence Mann who was an acclaimed author from the '60s. While they are entering a baseball stadium Terence rambles on about the public wanting him to be involved when Ray stops and asks Terence, “What do ya want?” Terence rambles, “I want them to stop looking to me for answers… begging me to speak again…write again…be a leader. I want them to start thinking for themselves. I want my privacy.” Then Kevin Costner points to the concession stand and says, “No, I meant…what do ya want?” Terence slowly turns his head toward the concession stand with the vendors eagerly waiting for his order and he says, “Oh, A dog and a beer.” This same precept is shared in other great movies including, "Finding Forester" and "The Notebook," but we will need a longer street for that talk.
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