The Pollitt family has begun to gather to celebrate he sixty-fifth birthday of the domineering Mississippi plantation owner and patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives).It isn""t real.It doesn""t exist.It""s me, pretending I live on what I earn.It""s my mother, trying to keep herself young and drinking herself old doing it.She and Adam living in this house as though your father was still alive.It""s an old man like the judge, dreaming of the past.Anne, come away with me.Anne: And do what?Jack: Live in a shack and eat red beans.Anne, what do you want me o do?Anne: Oh Jack, you haven""t been sure.You""ve gone from one thing o the other.A year at law school and now this job as a reporter.Jack: Are you afraid I can""t make a living?Anne: Oh no Jack, it isn""t that.I don""t care about the money.It""s just that I, I want you to be something.Jack: What is it you want me to be?Anne: I don""t know.It""s just that I want you to be, to do something important.Jack (sarcastically turning toward the portrait): Like your father? All right, I""ll run for governor." The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)d.Peter Jackson, 161 minutes (186 minutes extended)Film Plot SummaryPrologue (Flashback)On a thundering, stormy night in the town of Bree (on the borders of the Shire), short-statured, raincoat-wearing, bearded Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) entered the Prancing Pony.The film, in flashback, told the events hat led up to Rosa""s murder inquest, the context for her "evil" reputation, and everything that occurred before the murder.His entire frame of reference (for both words and deeds) was derived from his empty-headed dependence upon an ever-present television and his simple occupation - gardening.