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The boots??? (spoiler)

posted 17 years ago by maxmarshall77
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did anyone else think this was weird?

in the scene where after pollack (perlman) and hoffman (legros) discover the body of the trucker pollack runs off and manages to fall through the frozen lake, where one of his boots gets stuck between some rocks and he thus is forced to leave it down there.

so after pulling pollack out of the water hoffman decides to do some makeshift boot for him, instead of just going back to the dead trucker and grab his boots.

was this a miss by the filmmakers?

[–] TransAtlantyk 17 years ago

That's a good question.

I guess my thoughts were that the event had them both very worked up, and the only thing on Hoffman's mind was to get a fire started in order to keep Pollack from dying. Thus, by the time they were both certain of his survival, it was dark and they might have lost sense of direction. Being surrounded by darkness will cause you to second guess your surroundings and senses, couple that with bitter cold, and well. . . not an easy situation.

Or, it could just be a case of "it's in the script"

[–] brainfood-1 17 years ago

It didn't bother me at all when I watched the movie, though it would seem to be a logical question to ask. I'd have to watch it again to check, but maybe the mistake made was they simply didn't establish that the two characters had moved far enough away from the truckers for it to be an option at that point? It's pretty clear that they wanted to use the image of the "boots" as a visual symbol or metaphor for surrender or how out of place man is in that environment, since there is also that one shot of the two boots left behind by another character who walks off into the snow...

[–] Tin Man-5 16 years ago

It's symbolic, just like it was for the native fellow who left his boots stranded back at camp and disappeared.

According to the legends of the wendigo, you leave your boots behind because the spirits have set your feet on fire; when you run away, they swoop down and take you. Pollack losing only one of his boots was symbolic that he had only been half carried away, I think. He still tried to look at things logically.

[–] mrnomore 16 years ago

directly after i stopped the movie i came here to ask the same thing LOL
the same goes for the clothes btw. if he was soaking wet, why didn't he get the clothes from the dead guy?

oh well, good movie anyway :-)

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[–] PeterMarkoff 16 years ago

yeah, I just finished watching and instantly came here to ask here same question, it looks like pretty big plot hole

[–] chaiks 16 years ago

One of the main reason I think is that the body is also lying where the river suppose to be, as mentioned by Hoffman. Its also safer to camp near to the higher ground and not risk stepping on thin layer of ice river to take a dead man's boot.

[–] itlyb 16 years ago

dead trucker? they found bodies?

[–] MrBelette 12 years ago

by - itlyb on Sun Jun 8 2008 07:12:37
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dead trucker? they found bodies?

You watch the movie ?

Ron Perlman is really tall and heavy. Imagine that the trucker's clothes and boots weren't his size !

[–] drywall2-1 12 years ago

1) Ever tried to pull a frozen boot off a frozen stiff foot? It is impossible

2) They would have had to go get firewood, carry it to the corpse, build a fire, that the feet out without burning the boots and then get the boots off. That would take hours.

3) Or, they go drag the frozen stiff 180-200 pound corpse a kilometre ( or more) to where the firewood is. Not advisable.

Building a boot out of the stuff they had and building a fire immediately was the best idea.

[–] bootblack987 10 years ago

I thought one of the guys said it was 8 or 9 miles from the truck to the village they were just one ridge away from.

[–] RomeoKnight 9 years ago

This. Seems like a lot of people didn't pay attention while watching it. Stop crunching popcorn for awhile and concentrate.

[–] Who (5146) 3 years ago

They found the trucker far away from the trucks. He was trying to get to the village too but didn’t make it. I thought they should have gone back and snagged his boots, but figured he must have been a few miles back even though the film sequencing makes it look like Ed fell threw the ice just minutes after they passed by the dead guy.

Don’t blame it on the viewers and their popcorn. This was poorly edited.