In the movie Fried Green Tomatoes you have Ninny Threadgood, an elderly woman in a nursing home telling stories to Evelyn Coach. Ms. Coach has been coming to the nursing home to visit her husband's aunt and comes upon Ninny one day. Ninny is relating to Ms. Coach stories about two woman, Idgie Threadgood and Ruth Jamison. Does anyone know how Ninny Threadgood was related to Idgie Threadgood.
2006-10-01 15:25:08 · 9 answers · asked by strawberriesilove 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Ninny is Idgie's sister-in-law. She grew up around the Threadgoode family, which is why she has so many memories of Idgie's childhood and of the family through the years. She even lived at the Threadgoode home at times, before she was married into the family.
The jar of honey at the end of the movie was left by Idgie herself. In the movie, as in the book, there was no account of Idgie's death, only Ruth's.
**Read the book!!!**
The movie is wonderful, and is one of my favorites. However, the book goes into more detail than the movie. The book even ends differently than the movie. I won't give it away, but someone who is intregral to the whole story happening and who is alive at the end of the movie... isn't alive by the end of the book! Trust me... read the book!
2006-10-01 15:36:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I love this movie. Ninny is actually Idgie Threadgood. Remember at the end they are by that gravesite and there is the jar of honey signed "The Beecharmer?" That was Ninny's (Idgie's) nickname from her girlfriend Ruth after Idgie went and got honey from that beehive.
2006-10-01 15:29:23 · answer #2 · answered by cynshyn 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
well ive never read the book. but i think it is just a matter of opinion on if ninny and idgie are the same person. i always thought that ninny and idgie were the same person. i didnt have any doubt in my mind they werent until you asked this question. so honestly i dont think anyone really knows then. the ending is open for interpretation.
2016-03-27 01:35:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Idgie and Ruth, were bonded by their love for Idgie's late big brother Buddy, who was also Ruth's fiance. A politically correct heroine, Idgie rescues the pregnant Ruth from her abusive husband and the two raise the child together. Later Idgie and her loyal manservant Big George (Stan Shaw) stand trial for murdering the brute.
2006-10-01 15:37:05 · answer #4 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They don't tell you. They leave it open. At the end there is a jar of honey left on Ruth's grave and Idgie charmed bees. I think that Ninny is Idgie.
2006-10-01 15:28:45 · answer #5 · answered by Abi 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i think she does tell you when she first starts telling evelyn the story she may have said she is married to one of the cousins
2006-10-02 02:27:31 · answer #6 · answered by cozjeanda 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As I remember it she is one and the same.
2006-10-01 15:29:18 · answer #7 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i thought they were the same person
2006-10-01 15:29:48 · answer #8 · answered by guitar_lady81 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
She is her.
2006-10-01 15:33:07 · answer #9 · answered by Fleur de Lis 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋