What's with this 'Yeti'? Is it some random bloke who lives in the forest? If so, why? Does he play a large part in the book? I really don't get him at all. He doesn't even talk! Can anyone help me out on him, and why he saved Anita?
"It turned into a... splodgy, squelchy thing and squidged off down the corridor." Arnold Rimmer
ive only seen the film, never read the book and i always thought that he was just supposed to be some reclusive rich bloke type who lived on the proerty where the Den was, and then i kind of figured that because he read her diary he understood her more than any one, then just saved her cos she was drownin!
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He does play a larger part in the book. He's an an old indian man with a french wife and they live in the big house. They are rich and reclusive, but Meena's family get to know them a bit at the end of the story. It's been a while since I read the book so I can't remember the details much. I think he met his wife while he as serving in WW1 and they moved to England; it's a really sweet love story.
I understand that the film didn't have time to go into the background detail of all the characters, but it seems a bit silly they didn't explain who the yeti was. If I hadn't read the book I would be completely lost.
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I think the book was much more sucsessful as it showed that Meena and her family were not outsiders, and the rich people that everyone admired were in fact, indian.
I think the book was much more sucsessful as it showed that Meena and her family were not outsiders, and the rich people that everyone admired were in fact, indian.
FYI the yeti did talk in the film originally, but when the film was tested, the audience overwhelmingly didn't want to hear him speak. Not because he was a bad actor, they just wanted to retain his mystery and move onto the end of the movie. So he got cut out.
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