#Escanaba in the moonlight movie
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While sitting in the two-holer, Rueben dream sequences his Uncle- now deceased- who managed to shoot a ten pointer accidentally by firing his rifle over his shoulder at some lurking presence outside, a full twenty years earlier. The script for this film was certainly dreamed up by listening to the Musical Da Yoopers' CDs for ideas to use in the film.

We are given to understand this is one of the yearly Dear-hunting rituals that separate Yoopers above the Mackinac bridge, from the rest of us Charming Midwesterners.

#Escanaba in the moonlight movie

But what the movie needs is more scenes like the tavern dance, where 30 male hunters with pool cues sticking straight out from between their legs, attempt to mesh romantically with an equal number of mannish, flannel-shirted, jean-wearing women, bearing full rolls of Charmin between THEIR legs. Its alright for Rueben and his Dad to sit side-by-side in the outhouse and try to solve the problems of the world. It needs to be opened up the Soadys spend way too much time at that dopey deer camp with the two-holer out back. The scoreboard reads Rueben O, Visitors 41. In one dream sequence, Rueben sees himself at the Escanaba Football Game, clad only in long johns and enormous fur-flapped hat, being given the raspberries for his failure, by the entire fanbase of the Escanaba High School Football Team. Schoolchildren openly mock Rueben on the streets of Escanaba. In Wisconsin, the DNR is officially the Department of Natural Resources, but to hunters, it is 'Damn Near Russia' in both states. Rueben has come to the threshhold of his 43rd birthday without offing a single 'Turdy Point Buck' or any other kind either, in all those years of trying. Including porcupine p*** and home-brewed whiskey that can just as easily turn into maple syrple or treesap. Anything thats free is welcome in deer camp. Jimmer has an enormous capacity for Linenkugels (thats regional beer, friends, from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) and any other alcohol you can furnish him free. The non-Soady of the Deer Camp Group is Jimmer Negominee played by Wayne David Parker.

A lightbulb must have gone off in the Dumb and Dumber Co-star's head when he heard the dialogue in Fargo: 'Hey, they talk stupid in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan too! Voila, I got a idee for a film script!' Daniels plays Rueben Soady, son of Albert (Harve Presnall), brother of Remnar (Joey Albright). Jeff Daniels, actor, producer, writer and director of Escanaba in Da Moonlight, lives in the UP so he knows whereof he speaks. If you're from the Rural Midwest you've heard it all, but you can stand hearing it again. The girls are kept mercifully and safely away from deer camp.