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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #204
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 09:15:33 EDT
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From: schneider.WBST@Xerox.ARPA

J Gomez at OSU writes:

>The movie version of "A Boy and His Dog" is one of the most faithful
adaptions >of a wirtten work Hollywood has ever done.  The ending is
just as it is in the >story, virtually word for word.....

Spoiler warning....

While the movie version has Vic and Blood walking off into the sunset
with Blood comment on the girl's intellegence "although she did have
good taste,"  the Ellison work has Vic's thoughts as the ending:  "I
kept hearing her voice in my head, asking me if I knew what love was.
Sure I did, a boy loves his dog, doesn't he?"

The different endings change the whole context of the story, I think the
movie is rather barbaric and callous toward women, with no point made,
while the book shows a clear conflict with some interesting resolutions.

The moral is see the movie, but read the book too.

Regards-

Eric

Memory is a funny thing, I just had mine upgraded...