Talk:The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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Faithful to book—I just read the book and was quite surprised at just how faithful the movie is, at quite a fine level of detail, to the book. Many of the most memorable line, incidents, bits of "business" are straight out of the book; for example, Dobbs' repeated panhandling of the same man; the little kid with the lottery ticket; Gold Hat; the line about not needing badges; the prospector's insistence on closing the mine and restoring the landscape when they leave; Dobbs talking to himself as he rationalizes that the absence of Curtin's body must mean that it was taken by a tiger; the prospector's rather awkward line about how it's a joke played by (I forget the exact wording) "God or Nature or Fate," and bursting into hysterical laughter... Dpbsmith (talk) 13:18, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)