"The Arrival of "Crash" Davis to Mentor LaLoosh:12-year veteran journeyman baseball catcher "Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner) entered their office in street clothes, introducing himself to Larry as "the player to be named later" - a hint that he was an older, more experienced hired hand.Uncredited for their work on the script were Dorothy Parker, Dalton Trumbo, and Clifford Odets.It is actually a dark, bittersweet post-war tale of a savings-and-loan manager who struggles against a greedy banker and his own self-doubting nature in a small town.Afterwards, Neo soared off into the sky ("his Superman thing") - and after landing discovered the abandoned home of the Oracle.]Taxi Driverhas been acknowledged as consciously influenced by John Ford""sThe Searchers (1956)- he story of another angry war veteran and social outcast who becomes obsessed during a search and rescue of his young niece from a long-haired Comanche chief named Scar.