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In the book Whitney was also different

posted 9 years ago by corywiththet
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In the film Whitney was skinny and frail, with no mention of him being in the military. In the novel Whitney was overweight, in the army and was a former cook while in the military. Regardless, still one of my favorite characters. At least Whitney had the courage to stand up to Flagg.

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[–] gary_overman 8 years ago

It did give another side to Randell's army that not all were crooks or bad people at first site. Also I was happy to see someone stand up to him and not to brainwashed

Quite so, but like Nadine, he seemed to discover a bit late the fact that Flagg's feet were made of clay.

I refer, as an example, to the incident with Hec Drogan.