Okay I just rewatched this movie for the first time in years (I cried like a baby) and I noticed something that never occurred to me before. On Winnie's headstone her name is Winifred Foster Jackson. Is her last name Jackson as a little nod to Jonathon Jackson? Or is that her name in the book too and it's just a coincidence?
shareWhat got me was that she lived for 100 years. Jeez...
shareShe didn't live quite that long in the book.
I thought it was a nice touch, though, in the movie, to have her have such a long life.
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It's because the book is published and - I believe - set in 1975, I mean when Jesse goes to find Winnie that is. I know that most of the book is set in 1914. So I believe she lived nearly 70 years longer and died two years before he goes to see her. In the Disney film the present day part is set in 2001, when they filmed it, and so in order to make it only two years between her death and Jesse's reappearance, they changed her death to 1999. Honestly, I see it a more fitting age for her to die, I mean she was contemplating living forever - which would effectively immortalize her around 15, maybe a year or two more depending when she'd drank the water, and basically be killing her at that age because she would not die. Then to live another 85 years of life, almost waiting to say goodbye to Jesse and not being able to, makes me cry.
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In the book she married a man name Jackson because that was the same name on her tombstone. He just happens to be Jackson too.
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