They have made Irving's The World According to Garp into a man's world after all. Tesich, its screenwriter, and Hill, the director, have taken a novel which presents a world of characters significantly altered by the ideas of the women's movement and have magically returned both the themes and the characters to their safe, traditional places. Lust, rape, new relationships between men and women, new definitions of fatherhood and manhood-these are the issues in Irving's Garp. Something indeed has been lost in the change of medium: the message. Steve Tesich and George Roy Hill have succeeded in transforming John Irving's powerful, darkly comic "feminist" novel into an insipid, safe and sentimental "masculine" film. The World According to Garp is a remarkable achievement. Integrating feminism as a major philosophical theme for writing about rape with its true horror and brutality for creating male characters who care about kids and for understanding that feminist excesses are funny.-" Ms. John Irving, author of the novels The World According to Garp and Hotel New Hampshire: for Script: Steve Tesich,īased an the novel by John Irving. The World According to Garp THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARPĭirector: Goarge Roy Hill.
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