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A Few Questions

posted 17 years ago by tiderolls
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(Spoilers) I've recently watched this film and love it, but I have a couple of questions:

1)At the end, why did they wait until morning to look for Asher? Perhaps, if they had found him during the night, he might have lived?
2)It's been mentioned that a scene or two was deleted regarding Jenny & Stephen; was there another scene deleted between the time of Merlin & Tag's separation and Asher's sending Tag away? There seems to be a lack of flow there.
3)Do you think Jenny settled down with Stephen, even though she was now anti-fox hunting?

[–] johndeansmarshallcgli200 17 years ago

thanks for your inquiry ..not sure as to cut scenes ..but looks like film has been cut the original film did feature a love scene ..this i think has been cut and possibly cuts were also made before being released onto video.a few film reels of the original have appeared on ebay...i have recieved no feedback from network video or the stars as to info on cuts to film also no extras on dvd ..pity really as TARKA film on dvd same genre has interviews with producers etc ....Have you read the book as this was based on :THE BALLAD OF THE BELSTONE FOX...a nice read...do let me know if you get any info
thanks again
john

[–] tiderolls 17 years ago

No, I haven't read the book; is it still in print? If so, do you know where I can get a copy? Thanks for replying; I was beginning to think no one read this board anymore.

[–] johndeansmarshallcgli200 17 years ago

sorry to say book out of print..can get 2nd hand..

[–] tiderolls 17 years ago

Actually, after your last post, I decided to look it up on Abe books and ordered a copy; it's the one with scenes from the movie on the back. The book is quite good, and the movie did a fairly good job of being faithful to it. Although they would've needed a different actress, I wish they had started out with Jenny as a 14 year old and then as an adult, but they would've needed a longer time to tell the story, which I wish they'd bothered to do!

After reading the book and watching the movie again, I really did not like Kendrick; he should've seen Asher was losing it and not allowed him to go off on his own. Also, if only Jenny hadn't become an "anti" until after Asher's last hunt, she would've been there to get help for her father. But then Rook would've had to rewrite the novel.

Why does Asher not approve of Stephen for Jenny? Even after he tells Stephen he was testing him (therefore being so hard on him) to see if he'd make a good huntsman, I still got the impression that Asher didn't want him for a son-in-law.

BTW, do you own the DVD? Does it have extras?

[–] johndeansmarshallcgli200 17 years ago

hi
as far as Iam aware there are sadly no extras ..the networks dvd of TARKA a dvd was released before belstone fox also by network...but this has lots of extras interviews etc...i do not as yet have the dvd ..but have the video