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The lamb... (possible spoiler)

posted 12 years ago by DelphinusMinor
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So he gets a fifty pound shank of lamb. It's frozen solid... A few hours later after walking arounnd outside with it, it's melting and leaking blood already. It wouldn't have even have begun to thaw let alone be at the point where blood was leaking all over the place, especially being outside in the cold.

This makes no sense. It's winter in the movie, and on top of that, it takes at least a full 24hrs or more to thaw even a 25 pound turkey.

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[–] snelling 12 years ago

He was indoors with it a lot. Plus he was holding it close to his warm body. But I agree the scene was silly in an otherwise good movie. Who buys meat from a stranger off the street?

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[–] GoingNowhereKid 11 years ago

And he was pretty desperate to unload it I don't think he thought it was a good idea he had no other options.

I think the scene worked perfectly to illustrate the point that although he is really a good man he's old and still a bum after all these years desperately trying to make ends meat (no pun intended)

[–] goleafsgo27 10 years ago

Sorry Man96, but your "no pun intended" is screaming to be answered: Had you spelled "meet" properly, your disclaimer would be more credible.

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[–] js5905 11 years ago

I loved the scene with the dog fighting over it.

[–] CJay 11 years ago

Study the trailing screen credits for a reveal.

The ravenous extra -- seen scarfing the new zealand grass fed lamb's carcus -- that doggy's last name is shown as Farina. His dog.

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[–] MycroftHolmes 11 years ago

Plus it was worth $200 a pound?

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[–] GoingNowhereKid 11 years ago

He said $1000 for a 50 pound lamb so $20 a pound.

[–] GuyOnTheLeft 10 years ago

That's still way too high, especially wholesale for a big shank like that. But it could be that Lenny was making up the amount to get rid of him as he said about "lending a loser five bucks".

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[–] goleafsgo27 10 years ago

SPOILER ALERT: Of greater concern in the oops dept. is his leaving the bat he got for his grandson at his son's house, then magically having it at hand for the batting practice scene. Unless the deleted scenes on the DVD has the son UPS'ing it back to him, the generosity of which would, in my opinion, not quite fit the mood of their parting.

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