gay subplot
did this version of the film include the part of the novel where nick has sex with another man?
shareWow! Time to revisit the book. I don't remember that at all. Of course, I read it in high school over 30 years ago. Maybe I just didn't get it. I was naive to things like that back then. There was nothing like that in this movie. Although, Sam Waterston's Nick IS something of a sexual cypher.
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He/She isnt really messing , in the book after Tom and mrytles party nick tells how he ends up in a room when he was drunk with a man from the party in his underwear and then wakes up again in the train station at something like 5 in the morning.
shareNick didn't sleep with that man, that man was a photographer with a wife. Nick gets drunk and describes the rest of the night - including how he was bored listening to the photographer talk about his work. He eventually falls asleep that night but due to his drunkedness he can't recall when he fell asleep, the only thing he remembers is listening to the photographer and then waking up and taking the elevator to the train station. There's no gay subtext, just that he fell asleep due to boredom and because he was drunk, couldn't specifically remember when.
shareNo, when he woke up he definitely said it was in his underwear. Other than that, there's not much mention.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
I just finished reading the book for school, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who got that. XD This is in reference to the photographer being in bed and Nick in his underwear, right?
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