Isn't that the explanation why everyone speaks in that formal, stilted way? That the whole story is told from Mattie's point of view, and with her language in everyone else's mouths?
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
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Well, of course, it's the way he wrote it. But it is still incredibly stilted, regardless. I admit I have no idea, but I'm sure this guy doesn't write this same way for all his books. And I disagree that all the characters speak the same way in Tarantino movies. I wouldn't know about Whedon.
This writing is stilted - for the 1960s, and for the 1870s. There's no way everyone spoke like that - in any time period.
The thing that is shown off the entire movie is that Mattie is smarter than all the other characters put together - at age 14. She quotes Latin, she quotes scripture, she quotes the law. She is smarter than her incapable mother, she is smarter than the horse-trader. She has obviously used the lawyer many, many times, and from the way she handles and threatens the horse-trader, probably knows more about the law than her own lawyer does. She's obviously smarter than Ned Pepper's gang. She's even smarter than Cogburn, and if she's not smarter than LaBoeuf, she's close.
Leaving the explanation of why he wrote this way for this book as that it's how Mattie, our narrator, sees the world. Unless you've got something better than that.
Nice sig, by the way. Did you know that that entire speech was supposedly improvised?
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
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Leaving the explanation of why he wrote this way for this book as that it's how Mattie, our narrator, sees the world. Unless you've got something better than that.