#randall steckle

So I have just finished reading the Flatliners novelization, which I adored, and here are some highlights.

-As a kid, Nelson plays Dungeons and Dragons, "in which he played all the roles and held all the weapons and the powers and the mistery."

-The five are all twenty-six, except for Steckle, who is twenty-four, "a child". On the other hand, Rachel is later described as "(her father's) twenty-five-year-old daughter".

-Joe and Steckle are "old friends" who knew each other in high school.

-David is a jock, a runner and a basketball fan, who is in college on a double scholarship: one scholastic, one athletic.

-When Nelson strips for the experiment, he is described as "thin body with a prominent ribcage and square bony shoulders". Sorry, mr. Sutherland 😂

-The patient David risks his studies and career for is an Hispanic woman dying of vaginal bleeding because of a botched street abortion, accompanied by her common-law husband.

-Nelson privately calls the group "Flatliners".

-Nelson is strongly jealous of the budding romance of David and Rachel, who he considers the only woman at his level, his perfect companion.

-"Hoka Hey" is discussed, but never actually "said". I wonder if it's for a copyright reason, like when the Kingsman: the Golden Circle novelization wrote Merlin was singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" but didn't actually provide the lyrics: awkward as hell, and also spoiling one of the movie's best scenes.

-It's been a while since I've seen the movie in english so I can't remember if this appeared there as well, but Nelson calls David "Labraish". If this is a joke, I don't get it...

-Rachel's father fought in the "Viet Nam" war with the 101 Airborne.

-The anatomy professor is named dr. Zho.

-It's never said how Nelson and the others discover about David's suspension; the student who meets them in the men's room (played by Tom Kurlander) does not appear.

-Part of the reason Nelson chose Steckle and Joe for the experiment is that they had been able to resuscitate a greyhound four hours after it had died (See Noodle incident).

-The girl Joe tries to chat up talking about near-death experiences, Terry, is part of Rachel's hospital group.

-When Rachel runs away after seeing her father on the gurney during the exam, Joe and Steckle both run after her. In the movie we see Randy hesitate.

-Winnie Hicks is now Winnie Johnson. Her husband Ben appears in a slightly longer scene, offering David a beer when he thinks David is a friend of Winnie paying a courtesy visit.

-Winnie's daughter, and only child, is named Sherry, is six or seven years old and looks so much like her mother that the moment she appears at the door David mistakes her for Winnie.

-Billy Mahoney was eight when he died: according to his tombstone he was born in 1965 and died in 1973. Nelson was a year older, nine, which means that he was born in 1964, two years before Kiefer Sutherland. Assuming the movie takes place in 1990 (Nelson says Billy died "seventeen years ago"), this agrees with him being twenty-six.

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