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Something I noticed

posted 14 years ago by 5thbeatle
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When "Pig Pen" and "Rubber Duck" first start talking on the CB, "Rubber Duck" says "Hey, don't you know who this is?" and then he tells the other truckers "This here's "Rubber Duck" and the other truckers go kinda nuts. "Pig Pen" never tells "Rubber Duck" his real name, but after the bar fight when "Pig Pen" is smashing the cruiser, "Duck" calls "Pig Pen" by his real name "Bobby". How did the "Duck" know "Pig Pens" real name seeing how they just met?

NO ONE WILL BE WATCHING US WHY DON'T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD?

[–] 14 years ago

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[–] graynote 14 years ago

You just assume that they just met for the first time, but according to the "mythology" of the movie it's not so:

"The reason that Love Machine knows Rubber Duck so well is that the Rubber
Duck freed Love Machine from jail by pulling the window bars off with his
truck some years prior to the movie timeline"

http://www.stlouisdumptrucks.com/ConvoyMackTruck/Oddities.html

[–] mrenaut-1 13 years ago

And before they take the dirt road there's a line like "you remember that dirt road we used to use when we was working with Sharkey? It's a back route into Mexico...'

Something like that, so they already knew each other.
It's just hard to recognise someone's voice over a static laden CB or recognise their truck from a mile or two away away and behind.

People should spend more time watching movies and less time bitching about IMDB spoilers.