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Good grief, enough already! 1. Rose Sayer and Eula Goodnight are alike in one respect, they were missionaries. Beyond that, the characters were completely different Rose was prim, proper and quite out of place in Africa. Eula fit in...rode astraddle, shot a gun (and bagged their dinner, wilderness stew anyone?) In short, Eula could take fine care of herself thank you very much! Rose only learned that she wasn't a wall flower by going on the African Queen with Charlie. 2. Charlie originally only had allegiance to himself but learned about loyalty to someone else by being with Rose. Despite his protests about "letting a man be" Rooster was loyal to the law (or at least as close as he could come to it) 3. Rose and Charlie both went through significant changes to be together...Rooster and Eula learned to accept each other 'as is.' 4.Fighting outlaws and going downriver to escape them is not the same as fighting rapids to get down river to torpedo a boat, jeez, the river in The African Queen was a character in it's own right, while in Rooster Cogburn it's just a setting.
It's late and I don't have time for more...but a pox on whoever started this idea and a double pox on those who mindlessly repeat it!
score 10/10
rrrnay 19 February 2007
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29-3-2021 18:05:06