Large and Little were not great friends; few in the south harboured love for the north.
Not many people from the south accommodate love for the north and because of that Large and Little weren't good friends.
But just when you start to get impatient with the plodding, one-thing-after-another style of narration, there's a shocker that blows you into the movie's last act, and then a scene in which a couple of former antagonists figure out what stinks and join forces in an abandoned motel to stave off an army of bad guys.