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lovable subtle details
chefjudy:
:) this one always get to me:
when Jack drives up from Texas after the divorce and Ennis tells him that he has the girls that weekend, Jack is so caught up in the moment and anticipation of being with Ennis that he even has his tongue sticking out a little and then licks his lips - I'm never sure if it was intentional or not, but it says a lot about Jake and Ang if it was deliberate and then he ends up so crestfallen and weeps - I literally ache for Jack..................... :'(
Front-Ranger:
Another detail from that scene (tho not lovable) is that after Ennis and Jack embrace, Jack brings his hand to Ennis neck as if he's going to pull him in for a kiss, but Ennis roughly knocks his hand away. You have to look quickly to see it, it just registered subconsciously for me the first dozen ::) times I saw the film. But now, I see it and, Mr. Bill-like, I say, "oh no!"
Kelda:
The hand in mouth after the divorce scene...My heart breaks for jack there...
silkncense:
--- Quote --- Jack's body-draping at the very start.. I cannot watch it without a slight moan of desire escaping my lips. Every time.
I also love the profile shot of Jake just before the "nobody's business but ours" line. You can see every emotion fleet over his face then.. he's already in love and he's just scared to death that it was just a one-time thing for Ennis, especially after the "one shot" line. He's debating how to keep the door open, so to speak and you can see the vulnerability again.. just amazing acting on Jake's part...
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I couldn't agree more. And the latter is one of the few times we see how vulnerable Jack is - usually he tries to project a self confident, in control personality with Ennis.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on April 28, 2006, 04:01:40 am ---There's another detail, in which Ennis does not what I expect him to too: it's the scene when he gets the first postcard from Jack. He washes his hands, picks the postcard and reads it. Then heads for the next room and we see him from behind. He puts his left hand to his back in a well-known manner. I always think he will tuck the shirt in (I love this mannerism). But no, he just wipes his hand at his shirt (cause he didn't use a towel after washing them). Always makes me laugh, because this time he does not tuck in the shirt.
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And the weird thing is, in the trailer he DOES tuck in his shirt! So why doesn't he in the movie? Maybe they (Ang, Heath, etc.) thought there were already too many shirt tuckings. Or ...
Is it just me, but -- let's see, how to put this delicately? I guess it's impossible -- does Ennis bolting from the room at just that moment, perhaps in combination with that hand gesture, somehow bring to mind the line from the story about how he wrang it out a hundred times thinking about Jack? I mean, Movie Ennis would never actually SAY that, but I'm sure that in fact it must have happened. And he's certainly thinking about Jack then. Maybe this is their subtle indirect tactful way of alluding to that.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But then, everything in this movie means something ...
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