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Favorite facial expressions?
Katie77:
My favourite is the look on Jack's face just after Ennis has kissed him hard on the lips, and just before he turns Ennis around and slams him into the wall and kisses him......
I watch that scene over and over.....and get pissed off, when the scene changes to Alma looking out the bloody door.....
serious crayons:
No more need to get pissed off, Sue! Here's a YouTube video of the entire scene, with the Alma parts deleted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD72Cvq6n-Y
:D
BBM-Cat:
One of the best (and most heartbreaking) moments for me is when Jack and Ennis part in Signal.. and Jack drives off looking in his sideview mirror - there's a moment where his lips part and he gives a subtle heave and sigh - you can almost hear his heart breaking in that moment - like the life was just sucked out of him. So much emotion captured in just a few milliseconds. It always makes me think he's going to turn the truck around, but something keeps him driving onward...
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: BBM-Cat2006 on January 31, 2007, 03:47:20 pm ---One of the best (and most heartbreaking) moments for me is when Jack and Ennis part in Signal.. and Jack drives off looking in his sideview mirror - there's a moment where his lips part and he gives a subtle heave and sigh - you can almost hear his heart breaking in that moment - like the life was just sucked out of him. So much emotion captured in just a few milliseconds. It always makes me think he's going to turn the truck around, but something keeps him driving onward...
--- End quote ---
It is a heartbreaking moment :'(. I get the impression that up until that point there's still an ever-dwindling part of Jack that thinks there might still be some hope. The look of hope on his face when he says "I might be back next year, if the army don't get me" breaks my heart every time - it's like last chance saloon, and then as he drives away and sees Ennis walking away, not even turning to look at the retreating Jack, and he realises he may never see this man again. Shit, I'm filling up just thinking about it... :'( :'( :'(
HerrKaiser:
Every time I screen the film, there are a few special seconds of Ennis that grab me most....
When Ennis is cleaning the pots and pans in the stream during one of their first mornings on BBM, he stands up and looks up to the mountain, sees Jack as a spec of black on the mountainside, and then the camera goes in for a close up on Ennis' face.
His expression of wonder, yearning, loneliness, semi confusion, fate, and innocense is grippingly sensational. In that small scene, he has a similar look/appeal of Brandon deWilde in Hud; interestingly characters cut from the same cloth in many ways.
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