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Favorite facial expressions?
Marina:
I forgot about those - thanks for reminding me! I loved Jack's eyes in that scene, all fire and defiance, and maybe a little bravado too, ready to take life by the reins, literally - "You ain't gettin' this one ta sit around tyin' knots all day." Ennis was more cautious and tentative. And when Ennis opened up to Jack and said "the most I spoke in a year", well, you knew there had to be a good reason! :)
ifyoucantfixit:
I particularly liked Jacks expressions in the Thanksgiving scene... When he got determined to turn off the television...When he patted Lureens back, on the return to the table. and his defiant looks when he was telling LD. he was gonna knock him into next week...But most of all his disgusted with his life, and sick and tired of playing the family man game after he sat back down...he showed it all with his hand on his head, and a deep sigh, and raising up to do the carving himself...That was truly Jacks finest hour,,(ie Jakes,) in the movie, I thought...He ran the gamut of emotions there. Of course his look in the final away was devastating also,,but it was so so disheartened..he had finally lost his ability to hope..
LauraGigs:
Wow you guys! So many great choices to read.
Heath: When Jack says, "Didn't know we was gonna get into this again . . . yes I did, redlined it all the way, couldn't get here fast enough. How about you?"
Ennis just mumbles, "Me? Uhhh, Idunno..." But the expression(s) on his face! All these emotions wash over his face in those 2 seconds.
For Jake/Jack I agree with many of yall: his breathless, ravished look after Ennis gives him the kiss of his life, then heads up the stairs . . .
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on June 11, 2007, 12:15:58 am --- All these emotions wash over his face in those 2 seconds.
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When you say this, Laura, it reminds me that out of all the wonderful facial expressions, my very very favorite is Ennis' after asking Alma Jr. if Kurt loves her. He turns to the window, gazing out and thinking of Jack, and in about one second all those emotions cross his face, from grief to regret to sadness to happiness for his daughter ... and, as someone on imdb once pointed out, Heath had to register all those emotions IN PROFILE. What talent!
Cameron:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on June 11, 2007, 12:15:58 am ---Wow you guys! So many great choices to read.
Heath: When Jack says, "Didn't know we was gonna get into this again . . . yes I did, redlined it all the way, couldn't get here fast enough. How about you?"
Ennis just mumbles, "Me? Uhhh, Idunno..." But the expression(s) on his face! All these emotions wash over his face in those 2 seconds.
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That's a great one, Laura, I so agree. My favorite moment of the hotel scene, that and when he rubs Jack's arm at 'Brokeback's got us good'. (But I guess that isn't a facial expression.)
Did you ever notice how his mouth and whole face actually tremble when he says "I dunno.."?
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on June 11, 2007, 12:27:39 am ---When you say this, Laura, it reminds me that out of all the wonderful facial expressions, my very very favorite is Ennis' after asking Alma Jr. if Kurt loves her. He turns to the window, gazing out and thinking of Jack, and in about one second all those emotions cross his face, from grief to regret to sadness to happiness for his daughter ... and, as someone on imdb once pointed out, Heath had to register all those emotions IN PROFILE. What talent!
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Yep, that is something how he does it all in profile. Also, all the emotions at much less than full profile, that come through when he says 'this is a one-shot thing that's goin' on here'. Amazing!!!
Maybe we need a new thread, favorite mannerisms?
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