Re: The Swimmer
John Rauschenberg (johnr@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Sun, 09 Nov 1997 20:43:48 -0800
This movie is probably based on the John Cheever short story of the same
name, in which a man does the same thing. It's a wonderful story. I don't
know how much of it is Salingerian, though. It's a very suburban story, a
lot like most of John Updike's subject material.
John
>>I was recently viewing the Burt Lancaster picture, "The Swimmer". It
>>struck mevery "Catcher" like. The protaganist, Ned, is this rich old
>>business man in Conneticut who is swimming home. He is swimming pool by
>>pool to his house. He picks up a 20 year old woman and they start wimming
>>and have fun. He says stuff to her about "protecting her" and she runs
>>off. He meats various charcters along the way and ends up running home
>>after being called "a joke".
>
>i also saw this movie (not the whole way through)
>i thought the beginning was really cool... how he was going to swim all the
>way home through all those swimming pools...