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Does Jack know that is or is not his child?

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brokeplex:

--- Quote from: nakymaton on February 01, 2008, 09:57:16 am ---
Oh! So Jack married Lureen because

1) rodeoing was leaving him broke (financially and physically),

and 2) Lureen had money, which is actually what the story implies -

and Lureen had other reasons for wanting to marry him, like being pregnant already and wanting...

well, it could be a lot of things, but marrying "an outsider drifter cowboy" might be a way to simultaneously tell Daddy to shove it while doing what Daddy demanded (i.e., marry somebody).
 

--- End quote ---

I agree with reasons one and two for Jacks motivations, I would add a third reason.

3) Jack felt compelled by a strongly heteronorming society to get married to a woman.

As to Lureen's motivations, I don't see her a telling Daddy to "shove it". If Lureen wished to rebel from her Daddy, she could have stayed in Austin or Dallas after completing her college experience. By the mid 1960's single women were making their way into the workplace, and with a college education, she could have done just fine. No, Lureen's plan was to go back to Childress and take over the tractor business. Jack came along at just the right time to play the role of a submissive husband who was not capable of interfering with her plans. Did Jack annoy L.D?  You bet he did ! But, that was only a fringe benefit for the independent minded Lureen.

RossInIllinois:
Yes, without taking a DNA test I do think the writer intended for the child the Laureen character gave birth to in the story was to have been from the character Jack Twist's semen.

brokeplex:
And I'd say you are in very good company as it appears to be the nearly universal opinion among Brokies that Jack is the biological father.

Except there are a pesky few like me who have noticed that:

1) In the film on the day/night of Jack and Lureen's nookies the sign over the announcer's booth at the Childress Co Rodeo read: "Aug 7 - Aug 14" (as in August 1966 - see "BM : Story to Screenplay" p. 39 in screenplay - "INT: CHILDRESS, TEXAS: RODEO ARENA: NIGHT  (LATER): 1966" ),

2) In the film later the postmark on Jack's first post card to Ennis read "Sept 1967",

3) And put those hints together with Jack's dialog in the film when he tells Ennis, "I got a boy. Eight months old."

Given the normal human gestation period, the math just doesn't add up to some "Twist" semen.

Artiste:
Wow, Jack Twist semen!! Where the cup?

I would be willing to pay a million bucks to get his (Jack's) DNA and see if it matches their suposedly Lureen's boy and/or Jack boy, biologically that is!!

What are your result, all of you?? ...................

Hugs!!

Shakesthecoffecan:
Folks, you need to cut off your computors, and go outside and get some fresh air.

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