{"id":6384,"date":"2010-09-03T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:45:48","slug":"sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"SUGAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Sugar_Poster\"<\/p>\n

What better way to honor the opening week of baseball season than with, what I believe, is one of the finest baseball films to come around in a long while – SUGAR.\u00a0\u00a0 For decades, some of the sports finest players have come from Latin America and particularly, the Dominican Republic – Manny Ramirez,\u00a0 Roberto Clemente, the Alou brothers, Jose Rijos, Manny Nanita, to name a few.\u00a0 They have brought distinction not only to themselves, their teams and the sport, but also to their families and nameless small towns in the regions.\u00a0 Director Ryan Fleck, a lifetime baseball enthusiast (and after speaking with him, dare I say devotee and rapid fan), together with his filmmaking partner Anna Boden, bring us an in depth look at a little known side of the game of baseball told through the eyes of a young player in the Dominican Republic looking for the American Dream, a dream that takes on special meaning for Miguel \u201cSugar\u201d Santos.\u00a0 And while Miguel Santos may be fiction, the story behind SUGAR is not.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"sugar-01\"<\/p>\n

Miguel \u201cSugar\u201d Santos loves baseball.\u00a0 He eats, sleeps and dreams baseball.\u00a0 By age 16 he is attending the baseball camp in San Pedro De Macoris, one of many throughout the island, most of which are funded and sponsored by teams in America.\u00a0 A star pitcher, Sugar is his family\u2019s \u201cgreat white hope\u201d for removing them from poverty as everyone prays that he is picked up and signed by a U.S. team.\u00a0\u00a0 By age 19, it looks as though those hopes and dreams will come true when Sugar is picked up by a minor league team and brought to their farm club in the States for spring training in Arizona.<\/p>\n

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But for Sugar Santos, and so many others, being signed by a U.S. team presents an entirely new set of problems, starting with the language.\u00a0 Unable to really communicate with his coaches or teammates, Sugar feels a sense of isolation.\u00a0 When he goes to restaurants with the team, not being able to read English and unfamiliar with the food, he orders from the pictures on the menus and in Sugar\u2019s case, end\u2019s up eating french toast at Denny\u2019s for a month.\u00a0 And of course, one of his biggest personal challenges is being a little fish in a big pond with even bigger talent surrounding him.\u00a0 Despite the hardships, however, Sugar shines on the mound and eventually lands a spot with the Single A ballclub in Bridgetown, Iowa – the Swing.\u00a0 And as is custom with the farm clubs, for the season, players are given residence with local families.\u00a0 In Sugar\u2019s case this means the Higgins family, an older devout Christian couple and their granddaughter Anne.<\/p>\n

\"sugar-02\"<\/p>\n

As Sugar continues to dominate the mound on his way to the big leagues, a veteran Dominican player on the team takes Sugar under his wing, showing him the ropes and helping him along, while the Higgins\u2019 unwittingly attempt to Americanize him with church, Mid-West values and lifestyle and even the forging of friendship between their granddaughter and the handsome ball player.\u00a0 But, while life appears good on the outside, inside Miguel Sugar Santos is still lost and alone.\u00a0 And perhaps due to that loneliness and distraction, during a routine play, injuries himself and ends up placed on the disabled list.\u00a0\u00a0 What happens thereafter leads to a lot of soul searching and reassessment in what truly is the American Dream.<\/p>\n

\"sugar-03\"<\/p>\n

After seeing 500 candidates for the role of Miguel Sugar Santos, and frustration at audition 300 thinking they will never find someone who could act and play ball, Fleck and Boden joyously settled on Algenis Perez Soto for the part.\u00a0 A baseball player in the Dominican, Algenis had never acted before.\u00a0 As a child, his dream was to come to States to play baseball, but that never happened – until now.\u00a0\u00a0 According to Soto, for him, playing baseball on the big screen is close to playing in the big leagues.\u00a0\u00a0 But making it on screen almost didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0\u00a0 As Soto tells it, \u201cI remember that I was in San Pedro.\u00a0 I was playing baseball but I was told before that there was audition for a movie.\u00a0 I was going to go but at the time I realized there was a baseball game at the same time, so as a Dominican, I went to play baseball and I forgot about the audition.\u00a0 Then the places we were when I was playing and where they were having their auditions was very close, so I think they [Fleck and Boden] saw that there were many guys playing baseball and that\u2019s what they were looking for so they went to the field we were playing and invited us to make some auditions. [Boden] asked me if I wanted to be an actor.\u00a0 I say yes, but I wasn\u2019t interested about it.\u00a0 I just said that because I thought it was what she want to hear.. . I thought there was no chance for me but if I\u2019m gonna do this, I\u2019m gonna to learn this [dialogue] and try to do it good.\u201d\u00a0 According to Fleck, Soto took the entire audition process very seriously.<\/p>\n

\"sugar-04\"<\/p>\n

For Fleck and Boden, seeing Soto was a day they will never forget.\u00a0 \u201cWe started looking in New York because there is a big Dominican population there but it became pretty apparent pretty quickly that we needed to go down there to find a real Dominican baseball player.\u00a0 We interviewed about 500 people.\u00a0 Algenis was 452.\u00a0 A number we will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

One would never know that Soto had never stepped in front of a camera before this film.\u00a0 The camera loves him.\u00a0 He has a warmth and natural charm that draws you into the story and the character of Sugar.\u00a0 Peppered with shyness in \u201cAmerican\u201d scenes, Soto\u2019s emotions pour forth with intricate layers of curiosity, innocence and naivete all well hidden at times under the confident bravura of his athletic performance.\u00a0\u00a0 When pitching, there is a determined earnestness in his stance and on his face that lets you know, this is not acting, this is not pretend.\u00a0 This is real.\u00a0 The game is real.\u00a0 The person is real.\u00a0\u00a0 From an athletic standpoint and acting standpoint, Soto is a joy to watch.<\/p>\n

\"sugar-05\"<\/p>\n

As for Soto he sees much of himself in Sugar Santos.\u00a0 \u201cMe and Miguel have something similar because he is always a hard worker and he is always thinking about his family, to help his family.\u00a0 Everytime that he was trying to play hard, it was because of his friends, but it was because he wanted to have his family get out poverty.\u00a0 I think I am a little bit about that.\u00a0 I am always focused on my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although a lifelong ballplayer, Soto played second base and shortstop, not a pitcher.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFor me to learn to pitch it was a challenge, also like acting.\u00a0 When I was a baseball player since I was 8, 9 years old, I always played shortstop or second baseman and sometimes outfield.\u00a0 But never pitching.\u00a0 It was a first time for me to be a pitcher in this movie.\u00a0 I had 2 months of training with Jose Rijos and he was teaching me the mechanics and how to throw the curve, everything.\u201d\u00a0 Now, he unabashedly admits his best pitch is \u201cThe slider.\u00a0 And I have a pretty good fastball.\u201d\u00a0 Watching Soto, as with his acting, one would never know he wasn\u2019t a lifelong pitcher.\"sugar-06\"<\/p>\n

Supporting ballplayers were also gleaned from the Dominican baseball academies – and the 500 player audition process.<\/p>\n

Written by Fleck and Boden, the project came about thanks to Fleck\u2019s love of baseball and after reading an article referencing the Dominican academies that every American baseball team has.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t know those places existed.\u00a0 So I did a little research on line and thought this is an interesting story. . .I became curious about the guys you don\u2019t hear about.\u201d\u00a0 According to Boden, \u201cwhen we got the idea for the film, we started doing our research which consisted of talking to people who had been through a similar experience in the Dominican Republic, in the Mid West and up in the Bronx.\u00a0 It\u2019s not based on one particular person story.\u00a0 We took details from a lot of different people and try to mesh them together in what we felt was a common experience. ..we were exploring what this person\u2019s life was and what their choices were.\u201d\u00a0 For baseball fans, the result if interesting and educational and technically impeccable.\u00a0 For baseball and film fans alike, the film is refreshing and filled with heart.<\/p>\n

\"sugar-07\"<\/p>\n

The script has great balance between sports and life\u2019s personal struggle for one man.\u00a0 The characters are full-bodied, well crafted with great attention to detail.\u00a0 Intricacies of the different cultures, locations and lifestyles are visually interwoven like a beautiful tapestry, something which Fleck attributes to each community in which the film was shot and their cooperation not just with the production but with opening their homes and neighborhoods to the art and production departments.\u00a0 In one instance, 800 people were needed to fill a stadium.\u00a0 With a budget that didn\u2019t allow for payment to 800 extras, people in the community came out, filled the stadium and hung in there for a 10 hour day shoot.<\/p>\n

Key to this film is its embracing by the baseball community itself.\u00a0 Starting with Day One in the Dominican, Fleck was surprised by how open and welcoming everyone was at the baseball academies giving the filmmakers full access to the players.\u00a0 Thanks to Junior Naboa, former player and now Assistant GM and Director of the Latin American options for the Arizona Diamondbacks, much of the film was shot at their academy, even allowing the filmmakers to paint over the Diamondback logo and replace it with a \u201cKC\u201d logo.\u00a0 Fleck and Boden found a similar openness at the A\u2019s facility in Arizona for spring training.\u00a0\u00a0 The real ace in the hole, however, was World Series MVP Jose Rijos who served not only as principal technical advisor on the film, but coached Soto and then appears in the film as well.<\/p>\n

Beyond the challenges of multiple locations and the need to have help from communities in each location, one of the greatest challenges to making this film was the logistics of the game of baseball.\u00a0 As Boden describes it, \u201cwe needed the ball to go in a certain place.\u00a0 We needed the camera to move a certain way and we needed the extras to act a certain way.\u00a0 Getting used to working like that was the biggest obstacle.\u00a0 Our DP [Andrij Parekh] was terrified of the baseball hitting him or a camera.\u00a0 He comes on the field and his grip crew is pushing this huge plexiglass [wall] that is going to go in front of the camera and protect everybody.\u201d\u00a0 Fleck opines, \u201cWe were shooting through plexiglass and there was sun and there\u2019s reflection.\u00a0 This is not working.\u201d\u00a0 Ultimately, they were able to get rid of the plexiglass wall and had someone with a mitt protecting the camera leading to some exquisite lensing showcasing not only the beauty and the people of the Dominican Republic, but capturing the heart of baseball.<\/p>\n

A hopeful story, a heartwarming story, an entertaining story, this is a not so unique, but very unknown,\u00a0 journey about a boy becoming a man, learning about himself, who eventually makes choices that are not necessarily right or wrong, but the ones the believes are the best for himself, leading him to that sense of community and home that he has sought for so long, all set against that international favorite past time – baseball.<\/p>\n

Miguel Sugar Santos – Algenis Perez Soto<\/p>\n

Written and Directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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