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19 or 20?
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: marina on August 28, 2010, 09:08:52 am --- Not too much different from the animal kingdom! lol :)
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You've hit the nail on the head there, friend!!
Front-Ranger:
I thought for a moment that maybe McMurtry/Ossana named Lureen, since it's so close to Lorena, the heroine of Lonesome Dove. But it's in Proulx's story. Maybe they were thinking along the same lines...the alluring young woman who waylays men on their manly pursuits. Both characters are seemingly unaware of their allure and more intent on their own goals. Lorena wanted to go to San Francisco and Lureen wanted to settle down away from her daddy's restrictions. It's "be careful what you wish for" time, though. Each woman escaped what she thought was an intolerable situation but entered a new situation that wasn't exactly what she expected. At least Lureen didn't get kidnapped by wild Indians though!
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: chowhound on August 27, 2010, 05:58:28 pm ---
From what Jack tells Ennis on their first reunion, it looks as though his attempts to get rid of Jack, once Jack has provided the necessary cover by marrying Lureen, have been going on for some while:
"Hell, Lureen's old man, you bet he'd give me a downpayment if I'd get lost. Already more or less said it..."
Also, if Jack is not Bobby's biological father, it makes more understandable Jack's willingness to leave his wife and newborn son to start a new life with Ennis.
This is not the only possible explanation for Old Man Newsome's attitude towards Jack but, in my opinion, it is certainly a plausible one.
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what you stated above has been my theory about Lureen's (the heiress to one of the largest businesses in the county) reasons for the marriage to a poorly educated itinerant rodeo bull rider with no assets or social connections. and Jack's reasons would be simple as well, he needed some economic security, Lureen provided that. But after Jack made his "pact with the devil" - he regretted it, but couldn't find an easy way out.
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on August 28, 2010, 05:10:55 am --- I think that would be very untypcial AP because it would give Jack a somewhat valid reason to leave.
That´d be too easy, I think.
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Buffy, separate the short story from the film. I agree, that the "bastard" theory regarding Bobby is not particularly congruent with AP's storyline. It was Ang Lee who added the image of the signage at the Childress rodeo indicating that it took place in mid Aug (1966?) I believe that Ang Lee was looking for a more plausible explanation as to the marriage for Jack and Lureen than was provided by AP.
Monika:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on August 30, 2010, 12:14:33 pm ---Buffy, separate the short story from the film. I agree, that the "bastard" theory regarding Bobby is not particularly congruent with AP's storyline. It was Ang Lee who added the image of the signage at the Childress rodeo indicating that it took place in mid Aug (1966?) I believe that Ang Lee was looking for a more plausible explanation as to the marriage for Jack and Lureen than was provided by AP.
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Lureen might have wanted to rebell against her father - and why not then pick a dirt poor rodeo cowboy to marry?
I think they slipped up regarding the year. But then who knows?
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