A River Runs Through It

I watched it this weekend too (Showtime?).

Great nostalgic movie. Probably Brad Pitt's best performance. I try to watch it every five years or so.

When I watch the end I think that I DO NOT want to be the last of my friends and family to die. I'd rather be somewhere in the middle.

Also, every time I see it, I want to book a trip to Montana to go fly fishing even though I have never been fly fishing in my life.

i love it as a kid but i dont think i ever understood it.. i just like the fishing..

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At that moment, I knew, surely and clearly, that I was witnessing perfection. My brother stood before us–not on a bank of the Big Blackfoot River–but suspended above the earth, free from all its laws, like a work of art. And I knew just as surely and just as clearly that life is not a work of art and that the moment could not last.”

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I always liked this one after Paul catches the big one.

If you like the movie, the book is really good too. The movie is incredible. In the movie, there is a narrator created by Redford. In the books it is all told from Norm's perspective. The ending of that book is easily as good as the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

"I am haunted by still waters" is so powerful and I really think you have to be in the twilight of your life like Norm was when he wrote it to really understand what he is saying. Exceptional prose.

One of the timeless great movies.

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I need to read the book, I love the movie. Isn't Robert Redford's narrator character just older Norm?

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Technically, yes he is, but old Norm fishing is not in the book. There are all Norm's reflections and words from the book, but Norm never described himself fishing the big waters at that age, etc. The entire books is a older Norm reflecting on his youth. Probably splitting hairs, because the old fishermen gives such power to the words and scene in the movie. I saw an interview with Redford where he talked about how the movie lacked something so he invented the older man fly fishing as the narrator with his voice.

Also, a river runs through it is really a novella and his paired with other stories from Norms time with the forestry service. Officially it is A River Runs Through IT and Other stories. They cut out most of Norms early life in the movie but some of that is really interesting.

Norm's description of big sky type country and forestry service in its infancy are incredibly detailed and informative. The movie is great, but the book is very interesting from a historical perspective. To think he wrote this in his 60's after retiring in 1972. It is without a doubt his magnus opus.

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Technically, yes he is, but old Norm fishing is not in the book

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I figured as soon as I asked that's what it was

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Also, a river runs through it is really a novella and his paired with other stories from Norms time with the forestry service. Officially it is A River Runs Through IT and Other stories. They cut out most of Norms early life in the movie but some of that is really interesting.

Norm's description of big sky type country and forestry service in its infancy are incredibly detailed and informative. The movie is great, but the book is very interesting from a historical perspective. To think he wrote this in his 60's after retiring in 1972. It is without a doubt his magnus opus.

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All of this is why I can't believe I haven't gotten around to reading the book

I’m haunted by waters.

The shadow casting part is dumb, my one issue with the movie. Great movie, watch it every so often.

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A River Runs Through It

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I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but I always liked Legends of the Fall a little more. Both good movies.