Talk:The Horse Whisperer

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[edit] denies

Monty Roberts says that 70% of the main character was modeled after him and says the author met him and asked him a lot about his work with horses. The documentary on Roberts gets its title from this: it calls roberts "The Real Horse Whisperer".

The author ackwnoledges meeting Roberts but denies "basing" his character on Robrets. Uncle Ed 01:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Claim about inspiration of the main character

Other people have called Roberts the "Horse Whisperer" because Roberts was an inspiration to Nicholas Evans, the English author of the book "The Horse Whisperer," from which Robert Redford adapted the movie by the same name. [1]

I think the above claim should be mentioned in the text of the article, but I'm not sure how to do it. Uncle Ed 19:42, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Separate page about the novel

This article is mostly about the film, but the novel doesn't seem to have an article of its own. It ought to have one especially that the book makes the reader think over the life, reassess the values. The book is also worth rereaging to "catch the upstreams". 169.230.94.21 21:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)