As the cave in the movie is adjacent to an escarpment.....the tree could have 
been much less distance away....should we request a clarification from the Coen 
Brothers?
I might add.... The offending root in question may have come from a different 
tree....I don't think there is a "pine tree root" label on the aforementioned 
root.

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On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:28 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Read the book. Then I want a 10 page essay, single spaced in 9 point Times 
> Roman or Garamond. Footnotes should be MLA compatible.
> 
> 
> Feb 2, 2011 09:56:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> In response to the pine tree root scene in the cave,
> 
> I meant to say that it would not be common for a small
> pine tree to have a vine-like root like the one in the movie 30 feet
> deep in a pit, but
> feel free to correct me on that. And there were not any trees in the vicinity
> of the pit, that I recall.
> 
> What would have made more sense would have been for the girl to fall through
> an indian trap and then into the cave with scary indian stuff in it.
> After all, they were in Choctaw country
> and there was not a scene in the movie showing a Choctaw tribe or
> anything related to what their major fear as they started the journey.
> 
> It would have been more interesting had the cave been a large chamber 
> decorated
> with speleothems. And the dead guy in the cave, should have been
> a miner or something more interesting, than a dusty set of bones
> filled with rattlers.
> ( at first glance the snakes when they were coiled up, looked more
> like tropical snakes )
> 
> 
> Another spoiler,
> 
> 
> Mattie had her father's gun for several days, but waited till the bad
> gunslinger showed up
> and confronted him with it before she ever bothered to learn how to
> even hold it.
> 
> David Locklear
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