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Conversation in Mac's Kitchen

posted 11 years ago by rap31264
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When Mac's son calls JoAnn and she comes over and cooks angel hair pasta for him..Mac comes home and finds her in the bathroom and they go to the kitchen to talk...she tells him why she was there and Mac asks how his son got the phone number to the restaurant...she says from the magazine on your nightstand and she takes the magazine and slaps it on the counter in front of him...She thought at first that Mac left his son alone but the son told her that he dismissed the baby sitter so JoAnn could come over so she knew that before Mac came home...Just curious on JoAnn's reaction...why did she slap the magazine down? She shouldn't have been mad at him...

Just curious...

[–] Jen2152 11 years ago

I think she was just already annoyed with the prior sequence of events -- of realizing Nick was using her (that conversation with him at the restaurant: "If you want to *beep* your friend, *beep* him, not me."); then right after that, realizing Nick lied to her (seeing him eavesdropping on her phone conversation at the bar and hiding the matches); then no one answering the phone ("Didn't someone turn the machine on? ... I have to do everything."); then, believing Cody had been left alone. And then she was due back at the restaurant and was probably late. Mac came in at the tail end of all that. I don't know -- just my opinion. I've seen this movie a gazillion times, and learn something new every single time I watch it. :)

I think that's why the love scene was SO awesome -- worked to wipe out all of her frustration and mistrust up to that point.

[–] Jen2152 11 years ago

LOL -- I didn't type "beep." That part must've been edited. :)

[–] rap31264 11 years ago

Thank you for your observation...I never really thought about all she was going thru to that point...I had more of a male perspective...when he asked where Cody got the restaurant number and she said from your nightstand and slapped the magazine in his hands...I thought she was possibly upset that he might have been fantasizing about her and using her picture in the magazine...again...a male point of view...LOL

[–] Jen2152 11 years ago

Ha! Yep! Men and women will never be aligned in their observations about stuff like this. :) I have a question for you, next time you watch it. When Mac and Nick are in the restaurant in the beginning, what does Nick say when he says 'pay the tab?' He says something about 'bar' and 'tab,' and I swear there's an extra word in there that doesn't make sense, in that one sentence. Has driven me crazy for years. Let me know if you can decipher that. :) Thanks for your reply!

[–] vipspamaccount 11 years ago

I believe he is ordering the agent who is sitting in the next booth to leave. I think he said "dinner's over Bart, pay the tab at the bar".

[–] !!!deleted!!! (41638798) 10 years ago

Yes, that was what he said--kind of a funny scene because Nick openly shows Mac that he had the restaurant staked out by dismissing the "undercover" cop at the adjoining table.

As for the convo in Mac's kitchen........I always found that among other things Jo-Ann was slamming the magazine down and said "on your nightstand" meaning she was outting him for using it to fantasize about her, and being a woman she was not necessarily flattered by it according to her tone of voice.

This is confirmed pretty well, by not watching Jo-Ann, but by watching Mac's face when she says it.

Gisbon does a great job--Mac squirms a bit uncomfortably when she says it...and he almost grimaces in embarassment. He was busted!

It was a great scene. Subtle, but Mac's response acknowledged what he's been using the magazine for. LOL!

[–] leebrown_1 10 years ago

I am a woman and that was the first thing I thought. I thought he looked.....caught. I saw this when I was in my teens and that was my thought. By the by, this is one of my favorite movies from the actors, the way it looks, the story, the score (David Sanborn) and prior to Mel Gibson going officially off the deep end.

"Daddy! He's killed Steve and he's jamming the door with him!"

[–] morganseer (4) 7 years ago

"I think she was just already annoyed with the prior sequence of events"

Interesting. I thought she was annoyed at herself for starting to fall for Mac, after having gotten nice and cozy with safe Nick. Another woman's point of view.

[–] LTUM (974) 5 years ago

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