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Scenes about Loretta's father Ted

posted 14 years ago by RedruM65
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I found the scene where she and her father are waiting for the train, to take her to new life in Washington very touching. He tells her this would be the last time he saw his little girl, and it was. The scene shows how vulnerable she still was.
Then the scene in the movie when she is cooking and hear's her father calling for her outside and sees him coming across the way. That scene gives me goosebumps. It was so touching the relationship she had with her father.

"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way"

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[–] jdbna 14 years ago

She "sees" her father coming across the field first, before she realizes it's the neighbor. It's how she knows that he's died. She even says to Clara, her mother, that he came to her when he died.

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[–] jdbna 14 years ago

Yep. My screen froze. Thanks for letting me know, though.

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[–] jdbna 14 years ago

Pay exra attention to the scene at the coal face, where Ted is advising her to stay away from Doo, "because he's a growed man..."

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[–] sage2112 8 years ago

Yep - he was being robbed, like a thief broke in in the night and robbed him. Great scene!

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[–] crlnrgbrght5 7 years ago

I didn't even notice that scene, where she sees her father. I thought it was a neighbor man, telling her that she has an emergency phone call from Kentucky. I saw a ghost story program about Loretta Lynn, and she said she would see things from the time she was very little, to the ghosts at her Hurricane Mills plantation.