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TOTW 05/09: Things that made you go "hunh?"
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: tampatalon on August 01, 2009, 11:35:18 pm ---I had an uncle that was a steelworker making about 25K that divorced in '74. His obligation was $110.00 per child per month so $125.00 seems pretty steep to me for what Ennis prolly made.
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What part of the country was this in, Talon?
I imagine Ennis's payments might have been reduced when Alma married Monroe, although I'm not very familiar with that area of the law.
Would Ennis and Alma's divorce have been "no-fault"? Or would Alma have to have grounds, such as cruelty, infidelity or irreconcilable differences? Although if she had claimed infidelity at that point, the Thanksgiving revelations would not have happened the way they did.
LauraGigs:
--- Quote from: tamarack on August 02, 2009, 11:49:23 am ---One thing that I noticed from the beginning is that when we first see Ennis cooking over the campfire he is handling the pan with a bare hand. Ouch!
By the time he was cooking up that elk, he was wearing a glove. (And I always loved that he shook salt into his hand to see how much was coming out. How many times have I done that! That was just so real.)
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Great observations, Tamarack.
--- Quote ---I always thought that Jack's "shoot before you aim" process says a lot about his personality. And he must have found that eagle feather on the ground!
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tampatalon:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on August 02, 2009, 03:06:53 pm ---What part of the country was this in, Talon?
I imagine Ennis's payments might have been reduced when Alma married Monroe, although I'm not very familiar with that area of the law.
Would Ennis and Alma's divorce have been "no-fault"? Or would Alma have to have grounds, such as cruelty, infidelity or irreconcilable differences? Although if she had claimed infidelity at that point, the Thanksgiving revelations would not have happened the way they did.
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My reference for my uncle was western Pennsylvania back when steel was king.
TampaTalon^">
Monika:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 27, 2009, 01:32:34 pm ---Speaking of mics, how about the infamous visible microphone cord on Alma, Jr., when Alma picks her up as Ennis is running off ot the mountains with Jack for the first time? ;D
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I have never seen it...and how many times have I watched the movie by now?
great thread btw
Monika:
--- Quote from: atz75 on July 27, 2009, 11:13:07 am ---I'd say that numerous mysterious aspects of the timeline provide the biggest "hunh" moments for me.
For example, the amount of time that Ennis dates Cassie and that Jack presumably sees Randall works out to be about 4 or 5 years if you look at various clues in the movie (such as the banner in the Childress dinner-dance scene). Therefore, these sideline relationships are fairly significant... if only for their duration. The fact that Ennis seems to only be mentioning Cassie for the first time during the final camping trip, when Jack asks him if he'd ever get married again... always seems a bit odd to me.
Yep, sure enough... great TOTW!
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The timeline also made my go HUNH. Not the first times I saw the movie though, because I never noticed the clues ( such as the banner) and just assumed that Ennis´s and Cassie´s relationship didn´t go on for very long. It wasn´t until after I had read the shortstory, and someone pointed it out to me in a discussion.
I agree that in the movie, Cassie´s and Ennis´s relationship don´t feel "old".
The only other thing that ever made me go HUNH was the first time I saw FNIT. First they were just sleeping and then suddenly...holy... :o
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