This was a really strange movie, that I just recently watched. And maybe I just didn't completely understand the ending, I expected him to die..but is that what happened...are we supposed to assume that he died..or does he live after that point...of is it just left up us to figure out what happened..i realize that it's irrelevant, because he was "flying", but i was just wondering!!!
shareIn the book, Garp dies. I guess the movie leaves it up to us to decide.
shareYea.. I guess he could live, but since he was indeed flying (remember what he said about the magic gloves and 'flying into the arms of death'?), it would make sense that he did die.
What I want to know is what on earth is Pooh's story?
What I want to know is what on earth is Pooh's story?
In the movie, it is implied that Pooh never really liked Garp (spying on garp and cusihe in the woods, not caring that bonkers bite him). She also becomes an Ellen Jamesion (who we all know hated Garp because of the book). I think it was her Ellen Jamesianism that led her to kill him.
*Book Spoilers*
In the book, they give a little more detail to his death. Yes, in the book it's very obvious that he dies. Garp and Cushie have a fling by the cannon's when they are young. Then, when she is older, Cushie dies during child birth. Pooh becomes an Ellen Jamesian (it's implied that she does so after Ellen James asks them to disband, and due to her insecurities). She had always irrationally blamed Garp for the death of Cushie, and that is why she kills him. (In the book, Ellen James herself writes an article outlining her views on the Jamesions, not Garp).
Anywho, the long and the short of it is that this was an allright adaptation of a stellar book, and everyone should go read A PRayer for Owen Meaney, and completly disregard the movie Simon Birch.
J.
Anyhow, the long and the short of it is that this was an allright adaptation of a stellar book, and everyone should go read "A Prayer for Owen Meaney", and completly disregard the movie Simon Birch.
That is so true. Of course half of the book's fine details didn't make it into the film, but that's only natural, since otherwise the film would have to be 10 hours long or something. As always. So the term "allright adaptation" is fine with me. Great performances not only by Robin Williams, but also by Glenn Close (Jenny Fields), Mary Beth Hurt (Helen Holm), John Lithgow (Robert[a] Muldoon) and - very brief but as touching - Amanda Plummer (Ellen James).
As for "A Prayer for Owen Meany" - not even John Irving himself thought that ever a movie could be made out of this novel, that's why he made them change the name into Simon Birch. Which is (not surprisingly...) quite a bad film, by the way.
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Now with Netflix and Hulu and more cable stations, maybe some longer novels will get the full treatment they deserve in a dozen episodes or so.
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