She showed more emotion for her lost horse (though that was sad), than for her father.
shareI look at it as emotion not just for the horse not for the entire ordeal. Everything came to her at once and she cried for it all. For her father, for the long journey they just spent, for killing cheany, for everything.
shareAll that, plus she felt responsible for the horse's death, but not her father's.
shareI'd say the emotion that she showed for her father was properly understated earlier in the film. When she looked down at her father in the coffin with tears in her eyes, but refused to kiss him because "his spirit had flown." With that single scene we see how her resolve to capture her father's killer held her outward expression of grief at bay. Later when left alone to pursue the killer, her emotional plea to the Marshall is also riddled with the undercurrent of feelings for her father and what she needed to accomplish in his memory I'd argue. The thought of failure for her at that point was unbearable all because of her grief.
Upon a recent re-watch I came to really appreciate this film, I think it's a solid 9/10.
I thought the Coen's introducing a Lynchian character late in the film (the weirdo that did nothing but make animals noises) was useless and unneeded.
Not a slight in the least on Lynch btw, love Lynch.
I seem to recall that there was a member of the outlaws who did not speak but only crowed like a rooster in the original 1969 John Wayne film.
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