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Timeline for the film & story
Jeff Wrangler:
OK, friends, I'm standing corrected:
I'm at home now, with the story in front of me. The relevant detail is buried in one of Annie's long run-on sentences (which is why I'm not typing out the whole sentence):
--- Quote ---...the submarine Thresher lost two months earlier with all hands and how it must have been in the last doomed minutes...
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Like I said, a memory like Swiss cheese. ;D
In the story the conversation that included the Thresher apparently took place the night Jack noticed Ennis washing, after they had already switched jobs.
I'm sure there must have been a discussion somewhere about when the sheep would have been taken up on the mountain, but searching isn't my strong point.
jpwagoneer1964:
Apparently Larry McMurtry or Diana Ossana could be bothered look up dates. June 5th 1984 ( Jr.s wedding )was a Tuesday and September 24th was a Sunday. Neither of which makes sense in the dialog. It makes much more sense that the 4 year reunion occurred mid week. "Be gone only a couple a' days...back Sunday at the latest." Although it certainly doesn't change my opinion of the movie, this is so easy to get right.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on March 06, 2007, 12:23:04 pm ---Apparently Anne Proulx, Larry McMurtry or Diana Ossana could be bothered look up dates. June 5th 1984 ( Jr.s wedding )was a Tuesday and September 24th was a Sunday. Neither of which makes sense in the dialog. It makes much more sense that the 4 year reunion occurred mid week. "Be gone only a couple a' days...back Sunday at the latest." Although it certainly doesn't change my opinion of the movie, this is so easy to get right.
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September 24, 1967, doesn't make sense, but remember that Annie Proulx's "24th" was June 24, 1967, which was a Saturday.
jpwagoneer1964:
I stand corrected, I did check the story but didn't look past the day.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on March 06, 2007, 01:25:43 pm ---I stand corrected, I did check the story but didn't look past the day.
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But your point is well taken as far as the film is concerned. :)
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