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Alan Alda said the Hawkeye character he portrayed was different from the Hawkeye played by Donald Sutherland in Robert Altman's film of M*A*S*H, released in 1970. (Both were based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel, MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.) "Sutherland's Hawkeye seemed very depressed. Larry Gelbart's character was much more lively, he had a sardonic sense of humor," Alda said, adding that Sutherland's Hawkeye was married, while his was not. The Hawkeye in the movie had childeren; whereas the tv show Hawkeye was a swinging single and a confirmed bachelor. Alda also said the Hawkeye he depicted "seemed so far from me. I had no idea how to play a womanizer who drank too much, was a smart aleck. I had to figure out how to be that person." Another difference between the movie and television versions of M*A*S*H, Alda said, was that the latter "could go back show after show. We could explore the characters in a way no movie could. The characters could deepen, they could change in their relationships with each other." Also, in the movie, Sutherland seemed to be more or less playing himself; whereas Alan Alda is clearly channeling Groucho Marx in the funny scenes, (and Sutherland does not do that). In addition to all of this Sutherland wears glasses and a very specific fishing hat for much of the movie, where Alda does not do this. And finally the Hawkeye of the movie (and Trapper for that matter) really has a mean streak; and the humor of the film is much darker as a result. The Hawkeye of the movie goes after Margaret simply because she's a "regular army clown". The Hawkeye of the tv show was nicer and would never do that. The tv Hawkeye plays little pranks on Frank and Margaret, but nothing rising to the level of what he does to them (and other innocent victims) in the movie. Sutherland's Hawkeye rigs the shower so the entire camp can see Margaret naked, he has Frank hauled off to a mental institution in a straight jacket, never to be seen of again, he puts an army administrator under the anesthesia mask and makes him unconscious, and then takes pictures of him with scantily clad Geisha Girls. The Sutherland version of this character is vicious, whereas Alda was simply mischievous. And this makes Sutherland's performance darker, and Alda's lighter.

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