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Re: "Missing" scene: a theory

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Sue G.

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Date Posted: 12:12:17 10/18/06 Wed
In reply to: Susan 's message, ""Missing" scene: a theory" on 23:52:08 10/17/06 Tue

Ok, I'm going to beat this to death even more! In my opinion, I don't think that the proximity to the coast from Jamaica Inn was even a consideration in the movie. I believe that the idea of anyone having read the book was also not a consideration. The content of the story had to be crammed into however many minutes was originally allowed for the movie so they completely changed the plot to make the movie fit the allowable time. The book was too long to fit the complete (or nearly complete)story into 90 to 110 minutes and then, of course, it needed a little romance to keep the attention of the audience so the cave scene was created.
So, keeping in mind that Jamaica Inn is near the coast (in the movie), they came down from the roof and made a dash for this harbor that Jem knew about. He probably also knew that there was a boat just lying around near the water too...with a knife in it. Then they launched it in the water to row to the cave. I guess they were pretty exhausted because Jem had gone through a fight at the inn, been knocked over the head with a tankard (that would have killed most people..did you see what a 'big' swing Leslie Banks took with that thing? poor Bob would have had his head smashed all over the inn if that was for real!), been dangling from a rope, and then made a run for it (you said about 12 miles Susan...but we must remember that the inn was probably near the water in the movie)and rowed a boat to a cave in choppy waters, while dragging Mary with him! Whew! I'm tired just thinking about it! I wonder if they had time for some romance during that night? I guess not, because Mary was horrified when she 'realized' where she was and who she was with. And I guess Jem just put the knife in the sand near his hand just in case someone came along to get them. Mary looked as though he intended to use it on her!
Ok, that was just my theory!

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