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Favorite facial expressions?
ifyoucantfixit:
Its so hard to put a one to Jacks scenes, But I think my favorite is so sad,, when he realized the trip to Ennis had been a misunderstanding. You can watch him start to have the wheels turn.. He goes from Here i am and pure joy, to almost in tears and virtually running for the truck,,alright then see ya next month..he barely makes it on the road before the tears fall..for both of us.
Brokeback_Dev:
this is a great thread and reading all of it has been both saddening and happy.. i love 'em all. I love Jack and I love Ennis both happy and sad. they are two very beautiful men with very beautiful characteristics.
Kerry:
I love the enthusiastic expression on Jack's face as he belts out "Water Walkin' Jesus," making distant coyote's yip! And I love the expression on Ennis' face as he says "Very good" after Jack finishes singing. Ennis isn't just being polite here. I believe he genuinely means that Jack's singing is "very good." He loves Jack unconditionally, including his singing voice. I believe he even loves Jack's harmonica playing also, which is why he feels comfortable teasing Jack about it. But I digress.
I love the quizzical little boy look on Ennis' face as he asks Jack "What is the Pentecost?" I can just imagine him at school, asking questions in class, with that little sad puppy look on his face.
I love the expression on Ennis' face as he enters Jack's room at Lightning Flat. The look of absolute and total, crestfallen desolation on his face. I weep for him. I love the hesitant way he tentatively picks up the whittled figurine of the horse and rider. Almost as though he was handling a holy relic in a cathedral. Which, I guess, is exactly what he is doing. It has been my opinion for some time that this figurine was whittled by Ennis up on Brokeback in 63 (we see him commencing the process in his tent during a storm) and given to Jack as a loving gift, and kept by Jack ever since. There's no way I can prove this, but I like to believe it's true.
I believe the entire ethos of the film can be summed-up in the Dozy Embrace. Probably both Jack and Ennis' expressions in that one scene, sum-up the entire movie for me. Particularly the dreamy expression on Jack's face as he watches Ennis ride away in 63, transposed by the look of total desolation as Ennis drives away. Both expressions from Jack in that scene will remain with me for ever.
As for the question about what expression I have personally adopted. It is the way Jack touches the corner of his mouth with his tongue in the post-divorce scene (with Ennis' girls in his truck), that I now find myself doing all the time. Never did so before.
Dagi:
I ts really hard to pick a favorite one, when I start thinking about it I get the impression that the whole movie consists of adorable facial expressions.
But one I have fallen for from the first viewing on was Jack´s, after saying <the hell they are> and right before he jumps up for horsing around.
And again Jack, a very sad one, when Ennis said <guess I´ll see you around> . He looks at Ennis, hides his eyes under his hat, looks up again, and this split second breaks my heart.
Again Jack, the way he looks at Ennis after the reunion kiss, when E. is about to go upstairs...so stunned, can´t believe what just happened, aawww.
Jack crying in the truck regularely makes me sob like a baby.
Let´s see, Ennis...well, I´m more a Gyllehaalic, but I love the way Ennis tries again and again to look Jack in the eye in TS2.
And I love his dark eyes when he asks "what?"
But in fact I adore each and every single expression on both of their faces!
Dagi
Daphne7661:
Hey Dagi, you just reminded me of yet another favorite facial expression -- both Heath and Jake really have no idea how much they nailed these!!!
At the end of the summer, when Jack is driving away in his truck, he looks in the rearview mirror to see Ennis' singular, lonely figure walking down the road behind him, further and further away from him, his heart broken into a million pieces, the only thing he has left of Ennis is the bloody shirt he stole, but the way Jack looks away from the rearview mirror and tries to focus on the road, with a look of such sad resignation that his friend, his lover and the most wonderful thing to have ever happened to him in his entire life just slipped away from him, probably never to be heard from or seen again .... Jake just amazes me with how well he expresses his emotions in this film!!!
Oh, but if Jack only knew how, right after that, Ennis had to turn into that culvert from the overwhelming loss and confusion and separation from Jack, he would have turned that damn truck around and gone to comfort Ennis and never leave him again!!!
Daphne
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