Talk:The Horse Whisperer

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Contents 1 denies 2 Claim about inspiration of the main character 3 Separate page about the novel 4 Interesting trivia

[edit] denies

I have corrected a previous editor's change of the article that falsely gave Monty Roberts credit for inspiring writer Nicholas Evans' concept of the Tom Booker character. On Evans' website faq, he states

>I spent many weeks traveling across the West and met three amazing horsemen: Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman. Some of you may have read that someone called Monty Roberts was the model for Tom Booker, The Horse Whisperer in the book, and that he helped me with my research. It's not true. met Mr Roberts once, briefly, in England but have never seen him with a horse or seen him since. He had no involvement whatsoever.

> The false claim keeps popping up, as though repeating it often enough would make the falsehood true. Lil 14:25, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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)

[edit] Interesting trivia

A bit of interesting trivia about the movie: Brannaman actually doubled for Redford in several of the horse training scenes; you can tell which is which because Brannaman is right-handed, Redford is left-handed. Also, I had a chance to speak to Tom Dorrance before he passed away about the book and the movie. He was not at all impressed with the fact that the main character was based in part on him. He was most offended that the character 'stepped out' on his wife, something that was not in his character. --AeronM (talk) 20:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)