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To: bwest
Lots of other things different in the novel then the movie too.
16 posted on 09/18/2020 3:50:27 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Lots of other things different in the novel then the movie too.

Yes, the Richard Dreyfus character didn't survive in the book and also had an affair with Brody's wife. (Personally I feel that any movie that features Richard Dreyfus dying is a good movie) The novel is basically a reworking of Moby Dick with Quint as a discount Ahab.

23 posted on 09/18/2020 4:01:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yep - it’s one of the few books I’ve read where the movie was WAY better than the book. Hooper & Mrs. Brody having an “affair” was totally unnecessary.

(one other was “The Moonspinners” by Mary Stewart but I doubt anyone here, other than me, has ever read that book :P )


40 posted on 09/18/2020 4:37:31 PM PDT by twyn1
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Yeah, like the horny Matt Hooper/Brody’s wife bits.

/thank God


45 posted on 09/18/2020 4:46:26 PM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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