Where does the raptor come from?
Actually in the “making of” video shown on the Japanese DVD, screenwriter Judith Thompson told, “I met some once who had a falcon at a party and someone said ‘I wanted to have a falcon as a pet’ and she said ‘It’s not a pet, it’s a killer!’ and so I thought about that when I came to write this. And the idea of a falcon is something wild and beautiful Paulie is like this.” The raptor’s real name is “Woody” and it’s from the Canadian Raptor Conservancy ; it’s a Harris Hawk. The raptor is controlled by a few voice commands it learned since its birth when it was feed. Additionally Susan Swan, author of the book The Wives of Bath, mentions about the raptor on her site: http://www.susanswanonline.com/wives_bath_adaptation.html One of the girls cultist worship of King Kong as a symbol of masculine power had been exchanged for the love of a falcon, kept secretly on the school grounds.
