The screenwriters must have heard of Hemingway: the pilot's name is Jake Barnes.
Jake Barnes's boat yard was next door to the club.
The narrator, Jake Barnes, introduces Bill as "a taxidermist" and he replies:
Jake Barnes in "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) remains heroic while needing a night light so he can sleep.
Now Jake Barnes seemed remote, a tin man with fake problems.
The movie starts with Jake Barnes (Dirk Benedict) flying a plane over the Alaskan wilderness.
Remember short-haired Lady Brett telling emasculated Jake Barnes that the Count is "one of us"?
Like Jake Barnes, glass-jawed Eugene has become hard-boiled because "something in him had been permanently scarred."
The Brett Award, I called it, "to the student who has worked hardest under a great handicap - Jake Barnes."
Jake Barnes might say, "Ahead was a civil guard in Banana Republic khaki, directing traffic.