https://staging2.theplaylist.net/book-review-straw-dogs-retains-the-controversy-thematic-pull-without-the-sleaze-20110815/ Fri, 13 May 2016 14:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/book-review-straw-dogs-retains-the-controversy-thematic-pull-without-the-sleaze-20110815/#comment-90896 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:01:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/book-review-straw-dogs-retains-the-controversy-thematic-pull-without-the-sleaze-116909/#comment-90896 Ah, yes. My memory is hazy on that as well. Will correct.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/book-review-straw-dogs-retains-the-controversy-thematic-pull-without-the-sleaze-20110815/#comment-90897 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:01:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/book-review-straw-dogs-retains-the-controversy-thematic-pull-without-the-sleaze-116909/#comment-90897 \”The temperature is raised even more when David accidentally kills the village idiot—and pedophile who unbeknowst to him has just killed a local girl—\”
I have not read the book, but this is not the way that it happens in the 1971 film; David Warner\’s character is not killed but is taken in more for protection after the accident by Hoffman and survives the film.

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