You know, after Doc fakes his way into the house and meets Sloane and Luz and finds the neckties. How did Doc know Bigfoot was outside? Why does he so ineptly throw his body at the police car?
I am near-obsessed with this movie, I want to watch it all the time.
That's their ESP, like in their last scene together when they both say the same things at the same time.
shareHm, not bad. I'll log it as a possibility not out of plausibility.
shareHe was using Doc to do what he couldn't legally.
"a malcontent who knows how to spell"
Yes, at the end. But not in the scene I'm talking about.
shareWell in the book Doc doesn't know Bigfoot is outside, they just exchange a few words and go on their separate ways. I don't think the scene in the film has any deep meaning, it's just a cool way to end the Wolfmann residence segment and to show some more of the love/hate relationship between Doc and Bigfoot.
shareI leafed through the book at my public library, but my penchant for non-fiction got in the way. However, given the near-obsession I have with this flick, I believe I will crack that tome this winter.
I wonder how much PTA changed? In the movie Doc is clearly surprised to see BF there, judging by his car-jumping panic. Oddly enough, that scene is the one that puzzles me most, in a movie full of scenes that exist to puzzle.
I am similarly semi obsessed with this movie. There's some kind of magic realism weaved throughout. Like, does Bigfoot really exist outside of Doc's imagination? Or does Doc conjure him up in some paranoid drug induced schizoid delusion?
hmmmmmmm
I think that Bigfoot is definitely real, as are all the other characters. But I don't think that's important really, I just love to "dive" into the film and enjoy
shareas are all the other characters
Okay yeah, in the film she might not be real, but I don't think these questions have any real answers.
These characters, Doc's friends/lovers/companions that make his life worth living, being in this limbo between reality and imagination fits perfectly with the themes like whether or not the ideals of the 60s, that were going to take over the world (but then did not) can ever come back in one way or another, "be resurrected" and actually make our lives better. Otherwise, we might get "swallowed up by the sea" (many also literally it seems) and become another civilisation/species of the past.
Or maybe I've just watched this film/read the book way too many times lol
The film is incredibly faithful to the book, both regarding the plot and the atmosphere. Especially so if you consider how dense the book is. The only major part of the book that's missing is a trip Doc takes to Las Vegas and although there are some parts there that would have been absolutely amazing to see, their absence doesn't hurt the film at all (I guess it would have been too much like Fear And Loathing as well).
There are of course quite a lot of minor characters that don't appear in the film, or don't appear as much (Tariq Khalil, Jade, Denis, Riggs Warbling etc.), so it's great to see more of them.
Some conversations are even much funnier and better in the film (like Bigfoot's "she's gone" phone call), but the books makes it up with a lot of hilarious exchanges (mainly between Doc and Bigfoot) and other great stuff (including an acid trip 3 billion years in the past) that don't appear in the film.
I'm also a bit obsessed with the film and reading the book is totally worth it, it expands the story in a perfect way.
I wonder how much PTA changed?
Bigfoot used Doc throughout the film. Doc didn't need to go through channels to gain information.
Doc started out as expendable, but Bigfoot developed a respect for Doc as time passed.
"a malcontent who knows how to spell"