Was that Elvis? haha. If not, what was the point of that?
shareYou really don't know? They were arguing about being stuck in their crappy town as coal miners. The point of the guy in the car is that he and his girl portray hip, sexy out of towners. They show that there's a whole different life outside the town. Homer doesn't want to miss out on that. I think it was the only color in the whole movie. Everything else was drab and depressing.
shareHe's actually a character in the book. Read the book! I LOVE the movie, but the book is better (isn't it always?).
shareThat was a short but great scene. I saw it as the living breathing reality of what the rocket boys could achieve should they be able to break the cycle into which they were born. There's an exciting life outside of the coalmine town and this, as much as their curiosity, fueled their desires. The father-son dynamics in this movie depended upon Homer deciding that he wasn't cut out for his father's life.
sharei dont see why they couldnt just buy a bus ticket with coal wages and see the world
shareWhere would they sleep? What would they eat?
shareI thought the same thing. I would take a bus out of town and get a job in a big city washing dishes. It's a low, entry level job but it beats coal mining.
Doesn't coal mining pay much more than washing dishes? You'd have to have a lot saved up for that to work out. I mean, what's the plan?
shareAs Tennessee Ernie Ford said, a lot of miners "owed their soul to the company store." There was a line in the movie that said something like "the company owns half the house."
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