What was the relationship between Inman and Sara? Did they film a goodbye scene that was edited out? What was her life like after he left?
shareThere was no relationship. He said goodbye to her the night before when he said he was in love with Ada.
shareThere's a deleted scene with her on the second disc of the DVD, which you can either accept as part of the story or reject because they did, after all, edit it out. It shows Inman setting the horses free that had belonged to the three Union soldiers. He then goes about killing Sara's hog and preparing it to be butchered, helping to set Sara up for the rest of the winter. Meanwhile, she holds her baby inside the house and sings to him. Suddenly, she shrieks and realizes the baby has died. She wobbles out to Inman, smiles at him in an eerie way, and takes a handful of his possessions that he had set next to him while preparing the hog (including his gun). She walks back inside the house and shoots herself. Inman leans his forehead against the corpse of the hog in despair.
shareOuch, that is harsh. I'm glad they edited that out; I was hoping she and her baby survived the war.
shareSame here. Too much death, torture and destruction as it was. I would have liked to think she and the baby survived it.
shareYes, same here. But, and this is the part that is never discussed in American history books, there was a horror visited upon the general populace of civilians that most never fully recovered from. And it was a direct result of the Union Army's directions from above to destroy everything in their path that could be of use to the Southern cause.
And people from the North wonder why race relations and attitudes toward Yankees took such a long time to get over, if ever.
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I'm glad that scene was deleted. I thought Portman was really good in her small role, and I thought her scene with Jude Law was more romantic and touching than any scene he had with Nicole Kidman.
shareI agree shred-com that the scenes with Inman and Sara were more romantic and touching than any scene with Ada. I'm wondering if a Yankee captain would treat a young woman's baby like that and then rape the mother. Then the private comes in and wants to make sure he leaves some for him. I know the Yankees destroyed and stole whatever they could from the south but did they attack their women like that? What happened to gentlemen was it just southern gentlemen? I watched Ken Burns' Civil War and Shelby Foote never told us about raping southern women. Lincoln wouldn't have stood for that. Maybe the Russians raped German women during WW2 but during the Civil War? Any experts? I found that scene really hard to swallow.
shareI know the Yankees destroyed and stole whatever they could from the south but did they attack their women like that?
I agree. I sometimes think it would have been better if he had stayed with Portman instead of going home to Kidman.
Some people say it's a romantic movie but I just don't see any chemistry or love between Law and Kidman in the beginning of the film.
well, the final sex scene with Ada kind of restored some of the lacking chemistry and Inman seemed like as reserved a character as she was, so they probably were ment to be together...
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SforSmile was complaining about that sex scene so bad! He kept huffing on about how it would be so much better and have more chemistry if they had used two men instead. He then proceeded to show us exactly how it should have been choreographed on his gay partner right there in the theater!
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