Film
A made-for-television film adaptation of the novel, starring Jon Voight as Eddie, was released in 2004 and is available on DVD. Aside from a few details about Eddie's life and a more chronological telling of the story, the film is very faithful to the book.
"You burn me". During the escape from the mine Eddie and his squad had torched the buildings surrounding the mine. Eddie had seen something move in the building that he had set on fire. Before he entered the burning building he was shot by the Captain and placed in the truck and taken away. What Eddie, and the others, didn't know was that there was a little girl, Tala, in the burning building and it was she who Eddie thought he saw move. Tala perished in that fire.
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“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.”
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