geoff@ISM780.UUCP (03/16/85)
> Having just seen the movie of "The World According to Garp" on network TV > 1) What kind of car was it that Garp and his wife had? I think the car was supposed to be a Hudson, one of those Bulgemobiles which weighed in at a couple of TONS. This is why/how the accident happened, that car had a LOT of momentum! > 2) The night that his wife comes home after he had been told of her > infidelity, and he is gone with the kids to a diner and a movie: how > did she get home? [edited] .... This seemed a continuity failure to me. Read the book, or see an unedited version of the movie. Network sizzors strike again. > 3) The crucial accident -- this was led up to by the earlier scene of Garp and > wife coming home and him doing the trick with cutting the ignition and > coasting into the driveway. There she said it was "dangerous", which of > course presages the accident. But what is "dangerous" about it? All he > did was cut the motor and coast the final "n" feet to stop in his own > driveway. According to the book, there is a blind curve in the driveway. > Since he was coasting, and was coming UPHILL on his driveway, he could not > have been moving very fast. Even if the rain made his brakes fade, he See above, that car was huge and HEAVY. The nature of the injuries from that accident were probably excised from the network version **SPOILER WARNING ** Garp's wife was engaged in a sexual act which, when the car got rear-ended, castrated her unfortunate lover. The Hudson was missing the gearshift knob, the shaft took out one of the childrens eyes. The other child was very standing up, and was thrown through the windshield. Garp broke his jaw on the steering wheel. Yes, this is probably at little extreme, but it's a story. Frankly, I found a lot of the book to be more than a little outrageous, but I enjoyed it, the message was worth the mental gymnastics. > I haven't read the book, but am thinking about doing so, due to seeing > the movie. Any comments as to the relationships between the two? (E.G., > is the movie "true" to the book, or a "travesty" of it, or somewhere > in between?) The Movie is as true to the book as it could be, (in the original version), but I would expect the network version to be, if not a travesty, a discontinuous mish-mash. I recommend that you read the book. Geoffrey Kimbrough -- Director of Dangerous Activities -- INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Santa Monica California. ihnp4!allegra!ima!ism780!geoff Nothing works, and nobody cares -- Woody Allen