i know that the title is the same as the book, but either way, what is the significance of this title? i would have called it 'the sins of the father' (subtext: 'will be visited on the son/s'). as it is, the title makes no sense to me. can anyone enlighten?
shareThe title comes from a poem that was seen at the beggining of the film which I can't recall but for the last line which goes something like "And the hunter comes home from the hill" which pertains to Theron's hunt for respect from his father in the form of the boar hunt.
sharethanks. now that you brought up the poem (i was in the next room when they flashed that, apparently), i wonder if the hunter that comes home from the hill ('kill') is both theron and raph. theron maybe once after the boar, but more importantly after the girlfriend's father. technically also wade, because he's hunted his last prey. the girl's father, however, never comes home 'from the hill'- he is hunted down before he can reach home, because his killing was ignoble. raph on the other hand is truly home now-- with a new mother, and a new wife, and a new baby-- the family he has been 'hunting' for all this time, now, however, with his father's blessing.
to the extent that any of this is correct, thanks for the inspiration :)
Glad I could help. I found a copy of the poem.
Robert Louis Stevenson
UNDER the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you 'grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill
Actually...the last line of the poem is "And the hunter is home from hill." It's often misquoted with the second "the" added since it flows better / makes more sense with it. It's also what Stevenson chose as his epitaph and appears on his grave in the South Pacific. He lived his last several years in Tahiti or Bora Bora - I can't remember exactly.
shareHe is buried in Samoa.
shareNot true. The original poem, "Requiem" by Robert Louis Stevenson, ends: "And the hunter home from the hill" ... just as the title of this movie quotes it.
shareThis brings tears to my eyes, and good memories of my father.
shareI am not totally certain, but I believe John Wayne's character recites this poem as a last tribute to some of his dead shipmates in "They Were Expendable". It has always stayed with me.
George Peppard's arms were as skinny and flabby as a 12 year old boy.
Why on Earth did he role up his sleeves??
What a fish!