A Conversation for 'Field of Dreams' - the Film
"If you build it...he will come"
Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) Started conversation Aug 15, 2002
Not if Kevin Costner's there he won't...
"If you build it...he will come"
Smiley Ben Posted Aug 15, 2002
Is it just my imagination, or was there a period of about three months after this film was released where *every* pun had to be on this quotation. To the point of mind-numbing aggravation...
"If you build it...he will come"
Robert Posted Aug 15, 2002
CNN started doing it the other week 
. They've even done 'Field of Nightmares' a few weeks ago. Can't remember what that report was about...
"If you build it...he will come"
Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) Posted Aug 16, 2002
I presume they kept telling Costner the same thing about Water World and The Postman.
"If you build it...he will come"
CopyMaster Posted Aug 22, 2002
As a newspaper copy editor, this is one expression I've had to excise more times than I can count, even now, 13 years after the film's release.
Every time a new public stadium or park is proposed in an American city, someone feels the need to trot out this expression with an appropriately misty look in their eyes. 
Bad enough when a public official does it. Worse still when a reporter or editor inserts it.
I speak as a fan of the film and a fan of baseball, but the quote is old, and has been for some time.
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"If you build it...he will come"
- 1: Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) (Aug 15, 2002)
- 2: Smiley Ben (Aug 15, 2002)
- 3: Robert (Aug 15, 2002)
- 4: Mat Lindsay (the researcher formerly known as Nylarthotep...now he has a name, all he needs is a face) (Aug 16, 2002)
- 5: CopyMaster (Aug 22, 2002)
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