Rip Van Winkle story
The story of a man who sleeps for twenty years after wandering off in the mountains and playing ninepins with unusual men. Starring Harry Dean Stanton as Rip van Winkle, Talia Shire as Wilma van Winkle, Roy Dotrice as Peter Vanderdonk, Ed Begley Jr. as Broom Dutcher, Christopher Penn as Will Tussenbrook, Tim Conway as the Mayoral Candidate, and John P. Ryan as Hendrick Hudson. Written by Rod Ash and Mark Curtiss. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
25 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 20 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if I found myself in the future | choice | Rip woke up in post-revolutionary America after having inadvertently taken a twenty year long snooze. |
| controlling partner | major | Rip was repeatedly bossed around and threatened by his cantankerous wife, Wilma. |
| coping with a nag | major | The easygoing Rip didn't much let his wife's repeated henpecking bother him. |
| husband and wife | major | Rip was dealing with his wrathful and nagging wife, Wilma. |
| past point of view | major | Much was made of Rip, who had slept through the American Revolution, being perplexed by the post-revolutionary state of affairs in his village. Rip woke up 20 years hence and anachronistically proclaimed himself not a Democrat, but rather a King's man. |
| anger | minor | Wilma was incapable of controlling her wrath. |
| civil rights | minor | There was a pointed exchange regarding how black people had no vote. |
| democracy | minor | The man running for mayor sang the praises of democracy. |
| electioneering in society | minor | There was a lighthearted depiction of small town electioneering in America around the time of the revolution. |
| electricity | minor | A man at the village inn spoke of Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment. |