Cold Mountain - the movie

[mandopete]

So I finally got around to watching the movie Cold Mountain and here is what I noticed.....

The banjo picker got shot and died.

The fiddler got shot but survived.

The mandolin picker got sick from eating some funky old deer meat and seems to have gotten away with nary a scratch (I think he even got one of the girls).

.........just goes to show you.

[onlyagibsonisgoodenuff]

Ya gotta love this little instrument!

[Bradley]

[QUOTE]The banjo picker got shot and died.

Like we all havent had that Idea go thru our heads a few times....
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[Sellars]

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif lol! Can't be coincidence http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[John Flynn]

Right after the part where Ruby discovered Strobrod with his hand caught in the trap, let him out and brought him to the house, Strobrod had some dialog where he described the banjo player he was traveling with. I forget the exact words and I am not sure if it was in the book or the movie, but it was something like, "He's not too bright, but he's a good 'ol boy." I got a kick out of that also.

[Albert Whiting]

haha the dumb dude played banjo.lol

[mandoJeremy]

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[mandopete]

Rare civil-war era photo found..........

[withak]

Here's Charles Frazier's description of Pangle the banjo player from the novel:


The man had a big round head which sat unbalanced on him like God was being witty about making the insides of it so small. Though he was nearly thirty according to Stobrod, people still called him a boy because his thoughts would not wrap around the least puzzle. To him, the world had no order of succession, no causation, no precedent. Everything he saw was new-minted, and thus every day was a parade of
wonders.

He was a fat soft thing, broad-assed, as if he had been raised on a diet of meal and fatback. He had titties like a sow that pushed out his shirtfront and flapped when he walked. His pants were tucked into his boot and bloused out above them, and his tiny feet were hardly big enough to bear up his weight. His hair was the next thing to white and his skin was greyish, so that overall he gave the impression of a china plate filled with biscuit and sawmill gravy. He had no talent in the world but his recently discovered ability to play the banjo, unless one counted as talent the fact that he was gentle and kind and looked on everything that passed before him with soft wide eyes.

[John Flynn]

That description would make him one of the most distinguished banjo players I have ever met! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[Pete Martin]

The fiddler got shot but survived.


As Randy howard said "Survival of the fiddlist" http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[mandocrustacean]

Inman didn't play any instrument but he got the hottest girl!

[mandopete]

Inman didn't play any instrument but he got the hottest girl!
Yeah, but I think he got croaked too!

Love the description of the banjo picker - truer words were never written!

[mad dawg]

I just watched the movie on DVD last night, and I really enjoyed the movie and the soundtrack. #I was surprised to discover that I thought Jack White's voice worked really well within the movie's context and settings; sure his voice is unpolished, but it's soulful. (Brenden Gleason for that matter did a pretty good job too, IMHO.)

[mad dawg]

Yeah, but I think he (Inman) got croaked too!
Looks like the key to survival in that movie was GDAE tuning.

BTW, re the mandolinist, how many other people can say that it was a good thing that they caught salmonella?