{"id":12459,"date":"2016-07-27T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/legends-never-die-see-perfect-summer-movie-the-sandlot-for-free-in-fort-greene-park\/"},"modified":"2016-07-27T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:42:41","slug":"legends-never-die-see-perfect-summer-movie-the-sandlot-for-free-in-fort-greene-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/legends-never-die-see-perfect-summer-movie-the-sandlot-for-free-in-fort-greene-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Legends never die: See perfect summer movie \u2018The Sandlot\u2019 for free in Fort Greene Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t be an L7 weenie: Go see The Sandlot for free. What I love about The Sandlot is that it&#8217;s a movie about\u00a0how stories of childhood\u00a0told through the eyes of an adult are filtered\u00a0through the thin vaseline\u00a0of nostalgic distortion, something we&#8217;re all guilty of using. This is why the story of a bunch of kids playing ball on an empty lot is suffused with hyperbolic events\u00a0and characters out of proportion. The neighbor&#8217;s dog, Hercules, was never truly that big and monstrous, the fence never really\u00a0that towering;\u00a0Benny was a star of the friend group\u00a0but rode\u00a0to levels of mythic neighborhood hero\u00a0on amplified waves of reverence for someone who loomed so large in their imaginations. When you&#8217;re a kid and your world is the neighborhood, even the next yard over seems like a\u00a0vast unexplored chasm of unchartered territory. You look back and think, man, everything was so big then. 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