Good Wilt Hunting Movie Discussion 11/23/06

[iceberg210]

I just saw this movie for the first time yesterday and was amazed at how good it was. I absolutely love this movie and have come to love Wilt even more from the movie as well. Wilt is such an amazing friend and wonderful person and one that I'd like to become more like over my life. Anyway definate A+++++. Can only hope the finale movie will be just as good, and I have faith that it will be.

I did miss the first three minutes of GWH could someone fill me in on Coco's creator's?

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by iceberg210

I just saw this movie for the first time yesterday and was amazed at how good it was. I absolutely love this movie and have come to love Wilt even more from the movie as well. Wilt is such an amazing friend and wonderful person and one that I'd like to become more like over my life. Anyway definate A+++++. Can only hope the finale movie will be just as good, and I have faith that it will be.

I did miss the first three minutes of GWH could someone fill me in on Coco's creator's?

We still do not know any more about Coco's creator, other than what Craig revealed on his blog-that Coco's creator was a little girl whose family's plane crash-landed on a deserted Pacific island, and she created Coco apparently after being the only survivor, and Coco's various parts were imagined based on things the child saw in her daily existence. Coco was discovered by the two geeks, "Douglas" and "Adam", who were biologists, apparently, and were researching tropical birds(or mosquitoes, lol) when they found Coco, but Coco was alone-no other humans on the island at that time, so we can assume that her creator was either rescued, and left her Imaginary Friend behind, or died. Douglas and Adam brought Coco back to civilization to study her, then apparently left her at Foster's after awhile.

pitbulllady

[iceberg210]

I see that makes sense. Thanks for filling me in.

I love at the end where Coco is preening one of the geeks hair like a mom.

Anyway thanks again, I missed that part.

[WiltsAKGirl17]

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

There's definitely a LOT of room to expand more on Wilt's past; we do not even know, for example, when or where he finally got medical treatment, or where or how, or whom with, he spent those eight "Lost Years" between his injuries and arriving at Foster's, or what efforts Jordan made to find him or how he coped with the loss of someone who had become a family member. That's one of the things I'd love to see-a DVD released, to the general public(as opposed to special give-aways to the folks who screened the movie), that includes more footage and goes into a bit more detail, and comes complete with an in-depth interview/commentary by the star himself, as well as other key players in the movie.

pitbulllady

I'm all up for expanding on Wilt's past. As you've mentioned over yonder in the Wilt thread, he probably had to get medical attention pretty quickly, before his injuries or the offshoot problems (infection, illness caused by infections, etc.) killed him. As to those eight lost years, I have two theories:

1.) He'd probably have hung around Charleston, or relatively close to Charleston-- if he was still in his old neighborhood, Jordan would have found him eventually-- for a while, since it's highly unlikely that it would have taken him EIGHT YEARS to get from South Carolina to Washington state. Circumstances put aside, he managed to get to Charleston from Foster's in a few days, a week tops. (I lost track of the time frame when I was watching-- again, too swept up in plot and characters!)

2.) He wandered for a while, just barely eking out a living, until SOMETHING finally forced him to settle down at Foster's. I'm fully aware that this contradicts Theory #1, but both a plasuible explanations.

Jordan's side of the story would be very interesting to explore, especially from the retrospect-30-someodd years later vantage point. Which brings me to... I would LOVE to see GWH on DVD. An very in-depth, non-Barbara Walters type interveiw with Wilt-- or one with Wilt and Jordan-- would be wonderful, as would a commentary on the film by Wilt.

Originally Posted by antgirl1

Seriously, a commentary with at least Wilt would be cool, but as far as we know, it probably won't happen. The commentary will be, at least, forever attached to all Wilt fans as imagination...However, not just a Wilt commentary, but maybe another one with Wilt and some other characters too...Deleted scenes (What movie wouldn't have THOSE?)...Egad! It's so exciting, I nearly forgot it doesn't exist, and probably won't...

We can dream, though...

Think positive, AG1-- if demand is strong enough, a supply will be met. And given the amount of fans, it could very well happen. A whole cast comentary could be a ton of fun... So yeah.