2007-01-11 05:14:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The simple answer is that Harriet Bird was serial killer who targeted the best athlete in each of the sports popular at the time of the movie. She had already killed a famous boxer and some other athletes by shooting them with silver bullets. Once she thought she killed Roy she had completed her 'task' and committed suicide.
2007-01-11 06:28:47 · answer #1 · answered by Robert B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The movie has archetypes and a lot of symbolism in it. Harriet represents temptation from the true path. Our hero is supposed to fulfill his purpose (dharma) by being a great baseball player, but he allows himself to be detoured from the heroic path in his dalliance with Harriet. Harriet isn't that "real" of a character--rather she is a symbol for temptation. When she shoots him, this becomes a punishment for Roy's surrendering to temptation: the wound is incurable for many years. "Some mistakes you never stop paying for" is Roy's line in reference to the bullet which remains in his stomach for many years, preventing him from returning to his dharma--playing baseball.
2007-01-11 05:28:29 · answer #2 · answered by Yogini108 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You mean he meet a woman named Hariet? She is crazy. If you remember in the film there is a story in the newspaper about other famous sports stars that are being shot. And she has her eyes on "The Wammer" but when Reford strikes him out she changes her mind and goes after him.
2007-01-11 05:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Try this theory on for size: In present-day in the story, the big-time gambler character Gus Sands (Darrin McGavin) is in cahoots with the club owner and conspiring with him to "take the club away from Pop," and along the way to make lots money by betting against the Knights. They obviously have subverted at least some members of the team (the pitcher, for one) and are coercing them to throw games. Now Gus Sands is "running" Memo Paris (Kim Basinger) for his own sinister purposes, and using her to distract and weaken Roy Hobbs' game by keeping Roy out all night partying. Okay, flash back some sixteen years earlier...at the time Gus was keeping company and "running" that whacko Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey), also for his own sinister purposes. Remember, at the dinner club Gus Sands says he "once lost $100,000 on three pitches" (big bucks even now, HUGE bucks then) and said he essentially got even with the guy who cost him that bet (Roy Hobbs) "with another deal a week later," or something to that effect. In my own imagination, after Hobbs strikes out "The Whammer" at the beginning of the story, it's Gus Sands who gets Harriet Bird first to meet Roy Hobbs and later to lure him to her hotel room and then shoot him; and after she does, Gus (or another of his henchmen) emerges from the shadows of her hotel room, throws HER out of the window, and makes it look like Roy Hobbs killed her. Roy states to Iris that he spent the next two years in the hospital; and whether after that he went to jail (still not sure about that) or just spent the next 15 years lying low, Gus's "payback" took away Roy's health, probably his freedom, and certainly his dream to be the best player there ever was...all this courtesy of Gus Sands. Late in the movie, Gus knows Roy won't be bought, but he still controls Memo Paris (Basinger) and gets her to give Roy a poisoned hors d'oeuvre; and moments later, while all the guys are singing at the piano, Roy collapses with a perforated stomach and goes to the hospital, waking only after the Knights lose the next three games in his absence. (The Gus Sands character, so well-played by Darrin McGavin, was certainly a major and sinister force in the movie, with a relatively small and - inexplicably - uncredited part.)
2007-01-11 05:28:43 · answer #4 · answered by pfcginnever 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Robert B got it....she was a 'famous athlete' serial killer.
and /slap whoever insulted Brubaker
2007-01-11 08:44:54 · answer #5 · answered by Bucky C 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do not know the best way to answer this without offending
2016-08-08 23:45:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She had seen a few of his other movies like Brubaker.
2007-01-11 05:33:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
She was obsessed with him probably one of the first cases of a cinematic stalker
2007-01-11 06:31:49 · answer #8 · answered by vlfranklin1999 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He also has a bat named Wonder Boy
2007-01-11 05:16:41 · answer #9 · answered by Frank R 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Maybe he called her a "broad."
2007-01-11 05:20:32 · answer #10 · answered by Allison L 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋