 Truffaut remained true to Dr. Itards written accounts in most  respects. A few variations are: (1) Victor was not stark naked when  first captured; he had the shreds of a shirt around his neck. (2)  Victors hair would have been much longer, because he was  indifferent to hygiene or how he looked. (3) Jean Itard was merely a  young medical student, while the film suggests that he was on an  equal basis with Pinel. (4) Madame Guerin became almost a mother to  Victor, always attending to him, whereas the film suggests that she  merely helped to train him and to clean up after him. (5) Itard  would rub Victors back to relax and comfort him, but then had to  worry about sexual responses. Victor also often wet his bed, but  Itard never punished him; he decided to allow Victor to learn  whether he preferred to lie in a wet bed or to get up to relieve  himself. These problems are not shown. (6) In the scene in which  Victor throws a tantrum about learning the alphabet, his and Dr.  Itards responses were different than are shown in the film.  Real