Nobody in Hollywood wanted to finance it. You'd imagine it would have been easy for him to get "River" made. I thought, I really want to do something about this." Many obstacles That was the year that Redford's " Ordinary People" won the Academy Award as the year's best film, a year Redford himself was one of the top box-office draws in the country. I read it, and the arrow went in right away. He said he was sending me an example of really fine Western writing. Robert Redford read the book and saw something of himself, he said the morning after "River" had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival (it will open nationwide on Friday). It was published by the University of Chicago Press, not known for its best-sellers, and went through 20 printings. After he retired, he wrote this book, a book his own father told him he would someday have to write. When I was a graduate student in the English Department there, in the '60s, Maclean was a campus legend, a man who possessed the rare gift of being stern and humanistic at the same time. The book was written by Norman Maclean, a professor of English at the University of Chicago for many years before he retired in 1973.
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"A River Runs Through Bob" script via TV Show Transcripts."A River Runs Through Bob" press release via The Futon Critic.Tina finds her combination of Survivalist and Thunder Girls skills helped her save her parents, and re-envisions herself as a "Thundervivalist."īob's Gas Gets The Better Of His Romantic Camping Moment Season 4 Ep. In the chaos of the bee attack, Bob and Linda are able to escape the trailer and the Belchers flee in their car back to the city. Using the Survivalist Guide, they "weaponize" bees by using Tina's Thunder Girl sash to drop a bee hive through the trailer roof vent. The kids return to camp and see Bob and Linda are being held hostage. They trap them in the trailer, and Linda attempts to escape by asking to use the trailer bathroom. It turns out to be a trick, and the couple tells them they have been living in the woods for 40 months and want Bob and Linda to join them. The neighbor couple tell them the kids are in the trailer. However, Tina defiantly renounces her Thunder Girl membership, quoting from the Survivalist Guide about how such organizations are "cookie selling machines." Bob and Linda make it back to the campsite, with Bob finally praising Linda for her excellent wilderness skills and dubbing her the "Nature Master." At nightfall, Bob and Linda continue to follow the river back to the campsite, while Tina, Gene, and Louise come upon a Thunder Girl troupe campfire. Tina attempts to follow the Thunder Girls guidebook, but Louise and Gene find the Survivalist Guide much more compelling. In the morning, the kids wake to find Bob and Linda missing and borrow some inner tubes and a "Survivalist Guide" from their neighbors to go search for their parents. Linda takes charge, demonstrating surprising aptitude in the wilderness, but Bob stubbornly ignores her, insisting in his own skill at wilderness survival. They wash ashore far down the river naked and lost, and Bob becomes violently sick from the trout he caught and ate earlier. Late at night, Bob and Linda go skinny dipping in the river, but become swept away by the strong flow. Bob zealously intends to live off the land and fishes for a trout, while the rest of the family, much less impressed, borrow food supplies from their neighbors for dinner. Once they get there, they meet a survivalist couple camping next to them who offer them supplies. To make up for Tina missing her Thundergirls troop camping trip due to being sick, Bob takes the reluctant family camping in the woods.