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.
Sent from my iPhone 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit > our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected]
