The film The Legend of Bagger Vance, based on the novel of the same name by Steven Pressfield, is a movie that transports the philosophical Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, from a celebrated battlefield, approximately during the 4th century BCE, in India to a fictional southern golf course in Savannah, Georgia during the Great Depression. The predominant theme of dharma (or duty) is a major point that both these works focus on.
The Legend of Bagger Vance is told from the point of view of Harvey Greaves, an old man reminiscing about a legendary golf tournament that was held in Savannah during his youth. The story begins with Greaves as an old man having his fifth heart attack while he is on a golf course. He goes onto explain his unconditional love for the game of golf, which arose when he was a child in Savannah, when he had the opportunity to caddy in one of the greatest golf tournaments of the century. The scenes flash back with Hardy telling the history of protagonist of the......
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